Hi all
I gave a paper at The Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures
(SURF) at the University of Salford on 29-30 April 2004.
Along with a few others I was an invited speaker at the ESRC sponsored
'Urban Vulnerability and Network Failure: Constructions and Experiences of
Emergencies, Crises and Collapse' international conference.
The core aim of the conference was to explore the ways in which reactions
to, and experiences of, the collapse of technical and networked
infrastructures within and between cities are constructed, experienced,
imagined, represented, and contested. In particular, the conference explored
these themes in relation to conditions of growing infrastructural stress,
re-regulation, globalisation, increasing concerns with failure, the changing
geopolitical situation surrounding the 'war on terror', and the strong
fascination for infrastructural collapse within contemporary culture. By
bringing together researchers representing a range of disciplines, including
geography, history, sociology, critical theory, development studies,
political economy, geopolitics, surveillance and defence studies, the
objective of the conference was to stimulate interdisciplinary discussion
and collaboration that examines the meaning of connectivity and collapse in
contemporary urban life, politics, governance, and culture.
My paper is entitled: 'Cosmopolis or Chaosmopolis? Hypermodernismo in
Bogotá'.
The papers of the conference are likely to be published in a forthcoming
book published by Routledge and edited by Professor Stephen Graham
(University of Durham) and Professor Simon Marvin (University of Salford).
CSL members maybe interested to know that details of the conference and a
number of the papers can be found at the following website:
http://www.surf.salford.ac.uk/UrbanVulnerabilityProgramme.htm
Best wishes
John
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