Dear Colleagues,
we are pleased to remind you about the call for papers for our session:
"Participation between Consensus and Contestation"
at the RC21 CONFERENCE 2013 "RESOURCEFUL CITIES" in Berlin (Germany),
29-31 August 2013 Humboldt-University Berlin
http://www.rc21.org/conferences/berlin2013/
Calls for more entitlement and participation in urban development have
increased in recent years. This is happening in very distinct forms
and for a broad range of reasons, with demands based on different
rights and privileges, such as political entitlements, property, or
social and environmental justice. Yet in parallel to growth of “right
to the city” claims, often ambiguous in terms of their actual
implications, citizens have been encouraged to take part in existing
forms of participatory governance by range of public and private
institutional actors. This has happened in various ways, e.g. by
inclusion in decision-making processes regarding different aspects of
urban development or appropriation of urban space for artistic and
cultural uses.
These participation-encouraging programs can be seen as ambiguous as
they are frequently inserted into larger schemes of urban development,
where the objectives and outcomes are not that transparent. Indeed
participatory practices might allow genuine participation but can also
easily be reduced to a means to legitimize and support neoliberal
urban politics by means of
fictitious consensus.
This session invites theoretical and empirical papers that shed light
on the often ambiguous and/or contradictory practices of participation
in urban development, both regarding the public frameworks and
strategies into which these practices are inserted and the intentions,
motives and expectations of those who participate. What are the
desired outcomes of participatory practices and how does this
correspond to the discourses, claims and justifications of the actors
involved? Are potentially pre-determined limits of participation
challenged and to what result?
Please send an abstract to abstracts at rc21 and to all three session
organizers:
Jan Dohnke, Freie Universität Berlin, Stadt:Werk:Statt; E:
jan.dohnke at fu-berlin.de
Corinna Hölzl, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Geography Department; E:
Corinna.hoelzl at geo.hu-berlin.de
Maros Krivy, Estonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Architecture, E:
maros.krivy at artun.ee
at the lastest by *31 January 2013*
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