Dear Colleagues,

we invite paper proposals for our panel *»Shaping urban and regional 
space in the context of competition for funding«* to be held at the 
12th*SIEF Congress, Zagreb*, Croatia, 21-25 June 2015.
For submissions please use the following link:

http://nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3403

The call for papers closes on 14th January 2015.

Kind regards

Ove Sutter (University of Bonn)
Karin Bürkert (University of Tübingen)


Abstract:

*Shaping urban and regional space in the context of competition for funding*

Urban and regional spaces are developed by its inhabitants as well as 
regional administration or supraregional governmental and economic 
institutions.
In the last few decades, especially in times of economic crisis, access 
to public funding has decreased considerably. Urban and regional 
structural development projects in the fields of culture, social 
affairs, education and the environment are forced to compete against 
each other for financial support by various private and public funding 
programs.
At the same time this process does not proceed without antagonism but is 
negotiated by various stakeholders. Local citizens' initiatives or 
social movements contest the programs and actions of (supra)regional 
economic and political institutions by organizing protest campaigns or 
developing alternative projects.
How does this type of competition affect the shaping of cities and 
regions, of communities, institutions, landscapes, architectures and 
regional identities?
How are - on a conceptual level - ideas and visions adjusted to and 
formatted by the criteria of funding programs? How do these programs 
eventually shape actual places?
By which practices, ideas and projects do local and supranational 
grassroots organizations contest the ongoing process of commodification 
of urban and regional structural development? How do the ideas and 
practices of oppositional and alternative initiatives affect the agendas 
of economic and political organizations?
Contributions should exhibit ethnographic examples of the relationship 
between economics, politics and the shaping stakeholders. Theoretical 
and/or historical research on the shaping of living environments and on 
the effects of competition in these interrelated concepts are also welcome.

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Jun.-Prof. Dr. Ove Sutter
University of Bonn
Department of Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology
Am Hofgarten 22
53113 Bonn
Germany

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www.iak.uni-bonn.de/abteilungen/kulturanthropologie-und-volkskunde/abteilung



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