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Call for papers
14th Annual Mini-Conference on Critical Geography: Cosmopolitan Istanbul
The ontological foundations of cosmopolis have been a significant topic
for scholars including Kant, Arendt, Derrida and Benhabib. The notion
of the cosmopolitan has been employed to describe an ideal of
universalist humanitarian belonging to a world community, to signify a
democratic multicultural ideal, or to examine transnational terms of
belonging beyond the nation-state. Yet the geographies of social
spaces, places, and situated identities in the cultures of global
cities, glossed as cosmopolitan or multicultural, continue to be
produced through the workings of power at multiple scales. The politics
of the cosmopolitan are particularly visible in Istanbul, a site
through which state power, national imaginaries, and international
economic and political orders negotiate the tensions of secularism,
Islamist politics, modernity, and 'Turkishness' at the heart of
identity politics in Turkey. In this proposed panel for the 14th Annual
Mini-Conference on Critical Geography (Department of Geography,
University of Kentucky, October 4-6, 2007) we seek papers that
investigate the cosmopolitan within the historical and current
geopolitics of Istanbul. Suggested subtopics might include-but are not
limited to- memory, gender, transnationalism, citizenship, migration,
European Union accession, etc.
Critical geographers interested in contributing to 'Cosmopolitan
Istanbul' can contact and/or send a 300 words abstract to Ebru Ustundag
([log in to unmask]) or Amy Mills ([log in to unmask]) by July 15 2007.
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