Time: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Location: : Abbotsford Campus
Discoveries Speaker Series
UFV Geography and the Environment
Spiriting Away The Homeless: Cambodia’s New Apocalypse – a talk by Dr. Simon Springer, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Victoria
Thursday, Oct 20 from 2-3.30 pm in A413
This talk examines the plight of homeless peoples in Phnom Penh, Cambodia as a consequence of their enmeshment in a new logic of urban governance being effected by city officials and municipal planners. The widespread adoption of free market economics has produced conditions of globalized urban entrepreneurialism, from which Phnom Penh is clearly not exempt. It examines the ongoing pattern of violence utilized by municipal authorities against homeless peoples in Phnom Penh as part of a gentrifying process that the local government has dubbed a ‘beautification’ agenda.
Simon Springer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria, Canada. His research agenda explores the political, social, and geographical exclusions that neoliberalization has engendered, particularly in post-transitional Cambodia, where he emphasizes the spatialities of violence and power.
Event Location : Abbotsford Campus
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Date(s): Thursday, October 20Time: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm