Producing the City

Brigitte Zamzow: Research Projects, Writing, Photographs.

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Do neighborhoods matter?, ist ein soziologischer Diskurs, der seit fast 30 Jahren um die Frage kreist, ob sich die Wohnumgebung eines Individuums negativ auf dessen Lebenschancen auswirken kann. Man...

Check out my Beitrag in Frank Eckardt’s and Sabine Meier’s Handbook on Housing Sociology, “Living in disadvantaged neighborhoods”

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Mediale Einflüsse auf Eigen- und Fremdwahrnehmung in stigmatisierten Räumen am Beispiel Märkisches Viertel, Berlin

My latest project with wonderful Berlin students from the Institute of European Ethnology. We reflected on and wandered into the Märkische Viertel - physically, mentally - historically - critically - and found ways to connect with people and with ethnography in a challenging time. We found creative ways to do ask the questions that most interested us, put them into a scientific corset and researched through medial, digital and physical space as noone else could have done in the summer of ‘21. I am deeply grateful for this bunch of great young people I met.

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S. 3 in “Treptow & Köpenick” Ausg. 6 July 2021. A piece on caryying the load of Corona tasks in the family. Thanks so much for letting me speak my mind :)

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Kuckuck Notizen zur Alltagskultur ist eine interdisziplinäre kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift mit Sitz in Graz und München.

Check out my new piece in the KUCKUCK, a German-speaking anthropopolgy magazine based in Graz, Austria. I shed light on my reflection process during data collection in a privileged neighborhood

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Something New even through the Covid Crisis: My article on Justice-Based Planning efforts in Gowanus, New York City

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#diversity #inclusion #socialjustice #urbanethnography #underserved #underprivileged #disadvantaged #racism #feminism #mentalhealth #classstruggle https://www.instagram.com/p/B_8LrheH3i_/?igshid=gx7xajqxgkcj

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Titles of Seminar Papers on Seminar Diversity in Urban Planning

How great and diverse did the students find their way into the topic? I am still amazed...

Decade of Fire - A Critical Examination of the Perception of the Ghetto

Gendered Spaces of the Hood

Spatial injustice in the making of residential exclusion of Roma populations in the Czech Republic

A “Right to the City” Practice: Seeking Spatial Justice in Taksim Gezi Park

Off the market - Puerto Rican community gardens in the Lower East Side, New York

Mandatory Inclusionary Housing Condition in New York City

Community planning within the Gowanus rezoning project

NEW YORK’S ULURP PROCESS: THE EXTENT OF PUBLICITY INVOLVEMENT AND GENERAL DISADVANTAGES

Can the framework of “integration” act as a process to limit residential segregation in the context of the US?

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During my seminar on Diversity in Urban Planning, we asked ourselves, how the process of planning can become more democratic and participative. It is not an easy question to answer, and Cultural Anthropology offers a very complex understanding of what inlcusion and diversity ACTUALLY means: Listening and understanding first, then acting in a respectful and eye-to-eye manner.

Comparing identity construction through analyzing pop culture: We analyzed Jay Z and Sido having themselves filmed in front of and inside public housing blocks, telling about their lives.

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Input III from my Creative Writing Class “Struggle of Space, Struggle for Identity: The Civil Rights Movement in an Anti-Colonial Context”.

What did they talk about, there, at the table? We did a writing exercise to try to grasp the wording, the topics, and the importance of the March on Washington.

More photos and Dylan’s acceptance speech:

https://www.needsomefun.net/james-baldwin-and-bob-dylan/

https://www.corliss-lamont.org/dylan.htm

We also read and discussed Baldwin’s “The Fire Next Time”, and watched “I am not your N*” together. It was an intense class and the writing output was so fruitful. The students wrote letters, diary entries and created collaborative short stories inspired by the movie “If Beale Street Could Talk”. We shared all creative output in reading sessions in the classroom. Listening to all the material was amazing.

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Video Input II from my Creative Writing Class “Struggle of Space, Struggle for Identity: The Civil Rights Movement in an Anti-Colonial Context”.

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Video Input I from my Creative Writing Class “Struggle of Space, Struggle for Identity: The Civil Rights Movement in an Anti-Colonial Context”.

The center of the seminar was James Baldwin and Bob Dylan meeting at the Tom Paine Award and following their paths of creative outputs on the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. Especially James Baldwin refered to Pan-Africanist movements in his writing at the time. Harlem was, once again, the epicenter of events.

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“Revisiting Utopia: Deconstructing power dynamics of Public Housing today”, Part 7 Tashkent, UZ. Presented at the Bauhaus100 celebrations in April 2019.

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“Revisiting Utopia: Deconstructing power dynamics of Public Housing today”, Part 6 Moscow, RU. Presented at the Bauhaus100 celebrations in April 2019.

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“Revisiting Utopia: Deconstructing power dynamics of Public Housing today”, Part 5 Belgrade, SRB. Presented at the Bauhaus100 celebrations in April 2019.

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“Revisiting Utopia: Deconstructing power dynamics of Public Housing today”, Part 3 Casablanca, MR. Presented at the Bauhaus100 celebrations in April 2019.

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“Revisiting Utopia: Deconstructing power dynamics of Public Housing today”, Part 3 Manchester, UK. Presented at the Bauhaus100 celebrations in April 2019.

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“Revisiting Utopia: Deconstructing power dynamics of Public Housing today”, Part 2 Chicago, USA. Presented at the Bauhaus100 celebrations in April 2019.