Hi there,
If you're interesting in exploring urban difference from a temporal and
spatial perspective, then maybe you'll be interested in our panel at
this year's SIEF. Deadline January 14th. I'm sending a reminder (a
message was sent round many weeks ago) as the deadline is soon and we
now have a discussant.
CfP: Cities of the forking paths: intercommunal (dis)harmony and the
rhythms of everyday life
Panel Discussant: Eviatar Zerubavel
SIEF2015, Zagreb, 21-25 June 2015
Global cities are variously represented as utopian multiethnic,
interreligious celebrations of cosmopolitan difference, or conversely as
dark hives of ethnic and class conflict. Against this split narrative,
smaller cities that exhibit ethnic or religious tensions are often
portrayed as lacking, provincial or backwards. In light of recent
developments -- including the supposed demise of multiculturalism in
Europe's cities, the rise of urban Hindu nationalism in India and a
surge of violence in towns across the Middle East -- we seek to
complicate narratives of communal disharmony with a specific focus on
those semi-peripheral smaller cities that are often overlooked by urban
scholars. Thinking through these ideas rhythmically (temporally and
spatially) allows ethnographers and historians to explore the everyday
realities of how community is performed and circulated in smaller
cities. It is our contention that inhabitants of plural cities exhibit
creative marginality in the face of contrived coexistence, that the
heteronomous spaces and times of cities produce contradictory logics
that undermine ethnonationalist state goals, and that the mundane cycles
of everyday life can destabilise seemingly hegemonic projects. We
welcome contributions from a range of geographic settings, historical
periods and methodological approaches that address the problem of
alterity and its discontents in unsettled urban times and spaces.
Conveners: Ian M. Cook (Central European University) & Daniel Monterescu
(Central European University)
Discussant: Eviatar Zerubavel (Rutgers University)
Deadline January 14th 2015
Propose a paper here:
http://nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3507
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