INVITATION FOR PHD DEFENCE - Charlotte Cator
In order to obtain the PhD degree, Charlotte Cator has submitted her thesis entitled:
Transforming the city for sustainable futures?
Contestation and alternatives in Amsterdam
This thesis explores the potentials and limits of the city as a locus for transformative social change promoting just and sustainable futures. It develops a theoretical account of transformative social change against the background of capitalism, neoliberalism and the urban, and empirically examines the potentials for such change through the case of Amsterdam. It shows how social actors working with and beyond the local state begin to reconfigure the urban economy, but also demonstrates how these efforts are challenged by growth-dependent urban governance arrangements. The thesis therefore calls for more focus on alternative value creation and class-based inequalities in the city as well political-economic relations extending well beyond the geographic boundaries of the city.
The thesis will be available from research.cbs.dk
Primary Supervisor:
Head of Department Mitchell Dean
Department of Business Humanities and Law
Copenhagen Business School
Secondary Supervisors:
Associate Professor Lena Olaison
Department of Business Humanities and Law
Copenhagen Business School
Professor Dr Thomas Biebricher
Institute of Political Science
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Assessment Committee:
Associate Professor Maribel Blasco (Chair)
Department of Management, Society and Communication
Copenhagen Business School
Associate Professor David Wachsmuth
School of Urban Planning
McGill University
Dr Ross Beveridge
School of Social and Political Sciences
Glasgow University
Date: 12 June 2024
Time: 14:00-16:00
Online: Teams link
*Please note that the microphone and camera of all spectators must be turned off.
Location: Kilen
Room: Ks48 (ground floor)
Reception: Atrium
*The CBS PhD School will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence.