This annual Training School is organised and hosted by the International Urban Symposium-IUS in collaboration with an international group of senior scholars from leading universities.
The 2024 School will take place in Montecatini Terme (Italy) on 21-27 July 2024.
This 7-day Field Training School is an intensive exercise aimed at postgraduate students, postdoctoral scholars and practitioners who are interested in research in urban settings and in empirically-grounded analysis. The primary aim is to train participants in the ‘art’ of conducting ethnographic fieldwork, develop the link between ethnographically-based analysis and social theory and bring out the relevance of such analysis to the broader society.
The School will address key issues, including legitimacy and processes of legitimation; governance; urban diversity; stereotype and stigma; application and challenges of new technologies; informality; sport and health; mega-events and security; crisis, emergency and conflict; rituals; public space, vernacular landscape, heritage.
The School offers an interactive learning environment and the opportunity to discuss the rationale and practices of traditional and new research methods and mainstream debates.
Participants will become part of an international network, establishing long-lasting connections with both other participants and the teaching staff.
Full details and updates are available at: https://www.internationalurbansymposium.com/events/2024-field-training-s...