Please see the call for papers below for the upcoming EASA conference.
The anthropology of urban development: its legacies and the human future
Panel at the 14th EASA Biennial Conference: Anthropological legacies and
human futures
20-23 July 2016, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Convenors
Martijn Koster (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Marie Kolling (University of Copenhagen)
Short Abstract
The panel will discuss anthropological legacies to the field of urban
development through empirically rich and theoretically informed
contributions, demonstrating the diverse consequences of urban planning on
disenfranchised city residents and their futures.
Long Abstract
Urban anthropology has an extensive legacy in studying the impact of urban
development interventions on human settlements and their futures. By
offering in-depth insights into the diversity of situated experiences of
local actors in urban development processes, anthropology has advanced and
complemented theories in other disciplines that also study urban
development, such as planning, urban studies, architecture, public
administration, history and philosophy.
The panel will discuss anthropological contributions to the field of urban
development that demonstrate the diverse implications of urban planning for
local lives and livelihoods in their institutional and economic context. It
sets out to connect such studies to current theoretical debates regarding
the right to the city, governmentality, urban navigations, the
co-production of space or the city as an assemblage.
We welcome papers that present an anthropological analysis of urban
interventions from the perspective of local residents. We particularly
welcome empirically rich contributions that examine the different ways in
which disenfranchised urbanites are confronted with urban development
projects and how they navigate processes of eviction and relocation, and
the subsequent changes in their livelihoods and the materiality of their
homes. Also, we are interested in ethnographies that elucidate how people's
ideas about the future are reconfigured by urban renewal or how notions of
futurity in urban planning resonate with people's imaginaries. Finally, we
welcome reflections on how an anthropological analysis of urban development
may not be delineated by the time of a particular intervention, but by
people's life histories and new trajectories.
Discussant: Anouk de Koning, Radboud University Nijmegen
Propose a paper
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4188
Deadline: 15 February 2016
General instructions
http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2016/cfp.shtml
General information on the conference
*http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2016/
<http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2016/>*
Best wishes
Marie Kolling
PhD Fellow
Department of Anthropology
University of Copenhagen
www.anthropology.ku.dk/MarieKolling
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