Dear Colleagues,
Please find below a call for papers for a panel D04 on "Knowledgescapes: the city as information infrastructure", which will be held at the ASA Conference 2019 on 6 September 2019 in Norwich.
This panel invites ethnography- based contributions exploring urban knowledge (and its infrastructures) that critically engage with different knowledge practices in the context of contemporary 'urban challenges'.
Convenors:
Dr Magda Buchczyk (Humboldt)
Dr Steph Grohmann (Edinburgh)
To propose a paper, please follow the link: https://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa19/panels#all via the ASA website by 8 April 2019.
Panel D04 "Knowledgescapes: the city as information infrastructure"
Long abstract:
In a rapidly urbanising world, two out of three people will be living in cities by 2050. Urban environments are therefore focal points of key social, political and ecological challenges. But while the UN's Sustainable Development Goals aspire to "make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable", cities are also becoming the loci of contestations and struggles over sustainability, spatial inequality, heritage and history and urban democracy. At the heart of these challenges are the diverse, overlapping and often conflicting knowledges that form the information architecture of the city - the invisible flows and reservoirs of 'data' (including, but not limited to, electronic data) that interlace the built environment with intersecting 'webs of meaning'. We invite papers that critically engage with urban information flows and knowledge practices in the broadest sense. This could include: competing knowledge economies in the city, practices of information sharing and mapping, contested and marginalized urban knowledge practices, questions of explicit vs. implicit knowledges in/of the city, information and/as social power, urban knowledge materialities , technological and technologized knowledge, and disruptions to information flows and their consequences. We also welcome contributions that critically interrogate the categories of 'knowledge' and 'information' in an urban context: What counts as knowledge/information and knowledge acquisition, and who determines that? How does information facilitate or impede democracy, creativity, co-production, governance and innovation, and what 'Info-wars' emerge from these processes? What is the role of anthropology/ethnography in building and mapping urban information infrastructures?
Looking forward to hearing from you.
With thanks,
Magda and Steph
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