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CfP: EASA2012:
Uncertainty and disquiet
Nanterre University,
France, 10 – 13/07/2012
(W129) Reducing
complexity: transformation of capital cities
Convenors
Ilka Thiessen
(Vancouver Island University)
Goran Janev (Institute for Sociological Political and Juridical Research,
Skopje)
Short Abstract
This panel
will explore the responses to the post-1989 transformation of European
capitals, as well as recent responses to the financial crisis, by looking at
how the symbolic power of cities experience the transformation of public
spaces.
Long Abstract
Just twenty
years ago half of Europe hastily jumped from socialism towards capitalism.
Reinforcing nationalism was one of the ways to overcome the transitional
anxiety. The European version of cosmopolitan supra-national identity had and
still has to compete with particular nationalist representations in the 'new'
countries of a united Europe.
As most
revolutions happen in capital cities, we seek for ethnographic accounts, that
reveal the discrepancy between the imposition of the governmental symbolic
order in the public space of capital cities, and creation of everyday lived
spaces. Considering the symbolic power that capitals poses, the transformations
of the public space in these cities can reveal the aspirations of the political
elites in these countries. This panel will explore the responses to the
post-1989 transformation of European capitals, as well as recent responses to
the financial crisis, and constant threat of recession and economic downfall.
We are interested both in the nation-state abuse of the idea of capital cities,
and the production of appropriate political subjects. Following this, we will
look at the resistance produced by ordinary citizens, artists, and other actors
who exercise their right to create a public space that is an inclusive open
democratic space.
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2012/panels.php5?PanelID=1360
All paper proposals must be made via the online system.
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