Dear all,

Happy New Year!

We would like to invite you to submit a paper to our panel, *Chaos Beyond
Transition: Making Sense of Space and Time in Post-Socialist Cities*, at
the 2016 ASA conference in Durham (4th - 7th July).

http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4442



*Short Abstract*



This panel follows the thin line between change and continuity in the
material environment in post-socialist cities. We invite papers which shed
light on the spaces and times of urban change, illuminating the strengths
as well as limitations contained in concepts of 'chaos' and 'transition'.



*Long Abstract*



The fall of the socialist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe brought
about a rapid and momentous change of political regime. The unfolding
landscapes of post-socialist cities do not merely mirror 'transition' -
they are themselves eloquent and multi-layered materialisations and
enactments of change, as well as of continuity. This panel proposes to
critically examine temporalities and horizons of change in post-socialist
cities. What happened to the time-space of socialism after the fall, when
the 'chronometer of history' (Yampolsky 1995) was switched on? Did the
eternal urban cosmos of socialism simply disintegrate into the wild
capitalist chaos of 'everything fixed going up in smoke' (Marx and Engels
1967)?



This panel takes chaos as the starting point for its investigation of the
temporalities and horizons of change in post-socialist cities. Do
post-socialist cities retain any vestiges of socialism's attempts to master
the complexity and volatility of space and time? What might be learned from
these reductions?



Landscape, as a social process, reflects and constitutes "depictions of
rapid change in the apparent stability of place" (Berdahl 2000). Landscapes
are morphed according to contradictory uses of collective memories, while
suggesting new futures. This panel follows the thin line between change and
continuity in the material environment. We aim at critically understanding
not only the qualities of the built environment, but also the new
inequalities and stratifications, which accompany material
reconfigurations. We invite papers which shed light on the spaces and times
of urban change, illuminating the strengths and limitations contained in
concepts of 'transition'.




To propose a paper for this panel, please follow the following link:


http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2016/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=4442



The deadline for abstract submissions is the 15th February 2016.


All the best,


Maria Șalaru (University of Oxford)
Gruia Bădescu (University of Oxford)
Michał Murawski (University College London)



-- 
*Maria Şalaru*
*D.Phil. Candidate*
*Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA)*
*University of Oxford*

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