Date & time
Thursday, March 20, 2025 –
Friday, March 21, 2025
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Friday, March 21, 2025
2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Workshops & seminars, Conferences & lectures
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A radical proposal for municipal public services
Speaker(s)
Xabier Gainza Barrencua
Cost
This event is free and open to the public but please register
Organization
Loyola College for Diversity & Sustainability & Sustainability Research Centre
Contact
Where
Henry F. Hall Building
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Room H 1269
Accessible location
Yes
This talk by honoured visitor Xabier Gainza Barrencua focusses on issues related to local public services that go beyond the current debates on remunicipalization. Based on 2 case studies in Spain, Professor Barrencua will outline a proposal for a "radical" public service delivery.
About the speaker
Dr. Xabier Gainza Barrencua is an interdisciplinary scholar at the University of Basque Country, Spain who does research in urban studies, Latin America, and ecological economics. He is visiting Concordia as part of the Erasmus+ exchange program.
This event is brought to you by the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability, the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre, and the Department of Design and Computation Arts in collaboration with 4TH SPACE, with the support of the Office of the Vice-President, Research, Innovation and Impact; the School of Community and Public Affairs and First Peoples Studies; the Science College; and the Departments of Communication Studies; Geography, Planning and Environment; and Political Science at Concordia University.
This event will contribute to the Sustainability in Research section of Concordia's Sustainability Action Plan by increasing the visibility of sustainability research at Concordia.
This event is part of:
In.site2 and Sustainability across disciplines