| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, October 26, 2012 | 10:00AM - 12:00PM | External Event, NOTE THE LOCATION: History Conference Room 2098, Department of History, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street |
Southeast Asia Seminar Series
This talk presents material from a forthcoming book. Using spatial ethnography fieldwork, rehabilitated theories about property rights in public space, and critical cartography, her research group creates experimental maps to reconsider the sidewalk as an important but overlooked public space. The research agenda considers how our systems of representation privilege and foreclose perception and knowledge. She dwells on the case of Ho Chi Minh City as a remarkable example of fluid and vibrant sidewalk life that can be informative to cities around the globe that are in the midst of reconstructing their public space paradigms in the face of rapid migration.
Annette M. Kim is an associate professor of international urban development in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Dr. Kim directs an inter-disciplinary research group SLAB, sidewalk laboratory: http://mit.edu/slab . She teaches courses on housing and land use, property rights, public finance, and project appraisal in developing countries. Her publications include Learning to be Capitalists: Entrepreneurs in Vietnam’s Transition Economy (Oxford University Press 2008). She received her Ph.D. in city and regional planning and her M.A. in visual studies from the University of California-Berkeley, her M.P.P. from Harvard University, and her B.A. from Wellesley College.
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