The third iteration of the annual PhD seminar series presented by ACC's Notations on Theories of Radical Urban Change project (NOTRUC), lead by Henrik Ernstson and Edgar Pieterse, on Democratic Practices focuses on "Understanding Capitalis in Unequal Geographies". The seminar series is based on reading political philosophy with and against southern urbanism. It seeks to make an intervention in how we think about the emergent city and urbanization of the global south; to seek out and make explicit its emancipatory potential, which often gets hidden or silenced, either by overly dogmatic “Northern” frameworks, “developmentalist” techno-managerial approaches; or a sense of defeat that an emancipatory horizon is not any longer possible.In 2017 the series focuses on capitalism and its wider structuration of cities, bodies and subjectivities. It seeks to understand how classic Marxist critique and its extension into intersectional analysis can be thought with and against southern/postcolonial urban geographies to make visible contemporary struggles against exploitation.Key questions:  How does capitalism function in and through its differences across time, space, and social location? How does capitalism interact with and structure gender, race, and sexuality? How does this play out, manifest and structure urban spaces and extended geographies of the south? What spaces, discourses and collectivities can a critique of capitalism help to make visible as locations to struggle against interconnected assemblages and dispositifs of oppression? Lecturers:Dr. Andrés Henao Castro, University of Massachusetts, Boston Dr. Ashley Bohrer, Hamilton College, New York City Dr. Henrik Ernstson, KTH and University of Cape Town Read more here