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Call for papers
International conference
Resource Wealth and Regional Transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean
13-14 December, Amsterdam
Dear all:
In the framework of the above international conference we seek papers to contribute to the following panel:
Ruptures and continuities. The importance of cultural resources in urban Latin America's daily life.
Over the past two decades all Latin American cities, from large metropolitan areas to small provincial towns, have been altered by the forces of globalizing. Expansively grown from the 1960s to the 1980s when rural migrants moved to the cities hoping to find a better future, today's cities have become nodes in international flows of people, money, goods and ideas. New generations of urbanites carry the traces of their parents' migration to the city, their daily struggles, failures and successes, while they search for new possibilities to get ahead in live. They attempt to take part in new consumption patterns and technical developments, and they aspire after modern or cosmopolitan lifestyles. Sometimes they become involved in transnational migration, or they benefit from the possibilities offered by education. In case that fails, they may look for alternative livelihoods, for example using the international illicit economic flows; as long as money and respect can be earned.
Globalized urban life offers new possibilities and challenges, but this never erases local histories. Even though absolute poverty levels have lowered, social inequality has notably increased, which causes new social ruptures. In this fast changing urban context, social patterns and cultural institutions that define society's unwritten rules of the game are rapidly being transformed. Family life, migrant organizations, grassroots initiatives, neighborhood networks, material culture, local ceremonies and participatory politics are a few of those "cultural resources of urban life", that have possibly acquired new meanings. This panels seeks to enhance theoretical perspectives on cultural resources in the globalizing Latin American city, with a specific focus on its socio-cultural ruptures and continuities. It aims to shed light on how those resources, as society's "mortar", stay important and are being transformed at the same time.
Please send us your paper abstracts of 250 words before September 1, 2012: [log in to unmask]
More information on the conference: http://www.cedla.uva.nl/40_events/pdf/NalacsCEDLA2012Conference.pdf
Hope to see you in Amsterdam,
Christien Klaufus,
Mijke de Waardt,
Annelou Ypeij
CEDLA
Keizersgracht 395-397
1016 EK Amsterdam
phone: 31 20 525 34 98
www.cedla.uva.nl
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