Dear all,
we cordially invite researchers working on cities and migration/mobility to submit a paper to our open panel
Making Cities, Cities in the Making: Moments of Arrival, Appropriation and Resistance
at the 18th IUAES World Congress "World (of) Encounters: The past, present and future of anthropological knowledge" at the
Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, 16-20 July 2018.
The submission deadline is the 28th of Feburary. In order to submit, you need to be registered. However, payment can be made after the decision on your submission is made.
Submissions online: http://www.inscricoes.iuaes2018.org/trabalho/view?ID_TRABALHO=128
We are looking to receiving your paper proposals online. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us: [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]
All best wishes and appologies for cross-postings!
Monika and Tilmann
--Abstract--
Cities are not neutral sites in which people enter. They are not only physically built but are perceived, narrated, interpreted and imbued with power relations (Massey/Jess 1995). People experience places with their specific socio-spatial relations depending on their positionalities, including class, race/ethnicity, gender and religion. Spatial organization is integral to the production of social relations and power relations and not merely its result (Massey 1994).
This panel explores how individuals and groups make, imagine and enlive cities and the multiple places that constitute them, and how social relations are linked to spatial organizations, but also how places are negotiated and contested, demanding makeshifts and improvisations. We focus on the city’s recently arrived dwellers (Saunders 2010) and residents newly claiming their urban citizenship (Holston 2008).
We welcome contributions on urban placemaking practices, including the socio production of places as well as their socio-material aspects, such as arrival infrastructure. Topics may include, e.g. the transformations of urban spaces and existing power relations; embodied/sensory phenomena (Pink 2008; Sen/Silverman 2013); or forms of resistance (Gupta/Ferguson 1997; Certeau 1984, Massey 1994). At the same time we encourage contributors to explore the larger political and economic local and global contexts, by addressing e.g. questions concerning the right to placemaking.
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