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“This conference explores social lives, trans-local imaginaries, built spaces, and ways of knowing. In doing so, it aims to offer insights into the critical possibility of re-reading history, subjectivity, culture, political institutions and place….”

REVISITING PLACE – CURRENT GLOBAL CONDITIONS AND HUMAN-SPATIAL RELATIONS

Chinese University of Hong Kong


Dates: 5-7 Dec, 2023
Place: Virtual
Abstract Deadline: 20 October, 2023

https://amps-research.com/local-cultures-global-spaces-cuhk/



CALL:

In recent years, a range of approaches concerning the study of human relationships embedded in built places and environments have been developed. They emerged at the points of intersection between disciplines such as cultural studies, sociology, anthropology and urban studies. By studying human-spatial relations, and how their various constituent parts are interrelated or arranged, these approaches offer new insights and tools for researchers. They enable us to narrate stories of places, map people’s experiences, analyse social patterns and examine power relations in ever more varied and detailed ways.

In our current world, the concept of place is local, yet globalized. It is constructed by external connections among players and institutions. It spans multiple spatial scales and involves global processes that are grounded in the local. On the one hand, the recent history of globalisation has created unprecedented global connections: higher connectivity has brought about more opportunities for individuals to network, and the ever-expanding global ecosystem has brought about faster and more intense connections of places and people. On the other hand, the world is witnessing a process of diminishing interdependence. Globalisation is facing its biggest test under the current global dynamics, including heightened geopolitical tensions, the urgency of environmental problems and, most recently, the supply chain crisis.

Today, we find ourselves at a crossroads. We face the need to break out of existing paradigms in search of new avenues and alternative solutions to questions of human-spatial relationships. Among the questions we need to ask are: How does the current global state of affairs reconfigure our notion of place? How does it give rise to modifications in flows and circulations of people, information and discourses? How does place play a role in challenging, shaping and mediating the patterns of experience? What, in our current times, do space and place mean for the livelihoods of individuals and communities?

In dealing with some of the most important spatio-human challenges of our times, this conference strand centres on how, in periods of uncertainty, places highlight the philosophical significance of spatial realism. It explores social lives, trans-local imaginaries, built spaces, and ways of knowing. In doing so, it aims to offer insights into the critical possibility of re-reading history, subjectivity, culture, political institutions and place.


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ORGANISERS:

This conference is collaboration between the Department of Cultural Studies (Chinese University of Hong Kong); the Department of Sociology & Anthropology (Rochester Institute of Technology, New York) and the Department of Architecture and Planning (University of Melbourne).

It seeks contributions from various fields including art, design, social sciences, humanities, planning, cultural studies and more. 


PUBLISHERS:

UCL Press and Cambridge Scholars Publishing


MORE DETAILS:

https://amps-research.com/local-cultures-global-spaces-cuhk/

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