International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences’ (IUAES)
Inter-Congress “World Solidarities”
August 27-31, Poznan, Poland
*Call for papers for the panel*
Urban struggles: governance, resistance and solidarity
Across the globe, a growing number of urban dwellers struggle to meet even
the most basic needs for housing, security and income. In response,
governments showcase programmes like social housing, community policing,
cash transfers, or professionalisation training. However, these programmes
tend to be palliative, addressing merely the symptoms of inequalities
rather than their causes. Meanwhile, policies implemented in the name of
‘good governance’, ‘participation’ or ‘crisis management’ risk reinforcing
social exclusion of the most marginalised. Cases include evictions, gated
communities, securitisation, austerity measures, management of migrant
populations, and the regulation of the informal sector.
This panel addresses both the resistance to, and reproduction of
exclusionary urban policies. We are particularly interested in how
residents and professionals alike engage urban programmes through activism,
creative navigation of existing rules, or by way of withdrawal and outright
sabotage. Our panel connects empirical studies to theoretical debates on
the right to the city, activated and activist citizenship, and the idea of
the city as an assemblage of productive tensions. We ask: how do defeatist
visions of the city produced by accumulation by dispossession speak to more
expectant notions of urban navigations and creativity? How does resistance
transform neoliberal cities into sites for alternative imaginaries and new
forms of inclusion, citizenship and solidarity? We welcome papers that
present empirically rich anthropological analyses of urban dwellers’
opposition and resistance to urban governance, showing how people struggle
for their place in the city while also generating forms of solidarity.
Guidelines for abstracts can be found at the conference’s website
<https://www.iuaes2019.org/paper-guidelines/>, as well as the registration
form. Submissions are open from 20 December 2018 until *15 February 2019.*
When registering, look for the panel’s title from the list. Each session of
the panel (of 105 minutes) can have 4 to 5 oral presentations. The maximum
number of sessions for one panel is 3.
This panel is organised by Flávio Eiró (Radboud University, [log in to unmask]),
Insa Koch (LSE, [log in to unmask]) and Raúl Acosta (LMU Munich,
[log in to unmask]). Martijn Koster (Radboud University) will be the
panel’s discussant
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