Port Elizabeth (South Africa),
The Mellon Fellowship Programme at LSE was active from 2013 through 2016. It created an opportunity for humanities fellows to engage with the ongoing research of LSE Cities for nine months to foster engagement with urban questions and forge paths for practical exchange and collaboration across the humanities and urbanism. Principal investigators were Ricky Burdett and Suzanne Hall.
Sample Projects
The Mellon Fellowship Programme in Cities and Humanities 2014-2015: Urban Memoryscapes
The Urban Memoryscapes project, led by Mellon Research Fellow for 2014-2015 Naomi Roux, examined the means by which collective and public memory in inscribed and contested in urban space.
Ordinary Streets: An Ethnography from Local to Global
Ordinary Streets is a film by Sophie Yetton, based on research led by Suzi Hall at LSE Cities
Urban Intelligences, Subjects, and Subjectivities
Urban Intelligences, Subjects, and Subjectivities, led by Senior Urban Fellow from 2013-2014 Adam Greenfield, sought to develop a richer account of the affective and experiential dimensions of everyday urban life in the presence of networked informatic systems.
Metropolitan Melancholia
The Metropolitan Melancholia project, led by Mellon Research Fellow for 2015-2016 Ed Charlton, will seek to map the contemporary cityscape in terms that spatialize the condition’s associated feelings of loss, abjection and implacability.
New Citizens: Organising Discontent in the Postcolonial City
The New Citizens project, led by Mellon Research Fellow for 2015-2016 Ninad Pandit, will scrutinize the ways in which political and economic uncertainties of the postcolonial moment enabled the emergence of new violent forms of politics led by urban literary intellectuals in western India.
Johannesburg: A City Between
Ordinary Streets
Urban Intelligences, Subjects, and Subjectivities
