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****************************************************** * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * ****************************************************** *Call for Papers* Panel Proposal for the Annual Conference of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), 5th-7th September 2012, Manchester, UK: ‘Promises: Crises and Socio-Cultural Change' Green City Promises Organisers: Tone Huse and Hannah Knox In this session we propose to explore the promises made by green urbanism with a particular focus on practices oriented to the development of low-emission cities. Green urbanism starts from the acknowledgement that urban environments have become highly pressured by rapid urbanisation and growing populations. Urban settings are thus seen as key locations for tackling a range of sustainability related issues, not least the question of how to go about mitigating and adapting to global climate change. Like other utopian projects, green urbanism tends to evoke images of future cities that depict urban living as settled and peaceful. Environmental transformation is always also a matter of social transformation, and invariably the project of creating a more a sustainable city rests on belief in the co-emergence of green lifestyles and a cohesive community. At the same time, the practical activity of green urbanism is characterised by a fragmentary politics revolving around data collection, knowledge production and the pursuit of spaces for practical forms of action. This session seeks to investigate the utopian promises of sustainable urban futures in relation to these practices of green urbanism by focusing on the aspirations and realities of urban climate politics. We invite papers that examine the knowledge produced by scientists and policy makers engaging with cities and climate change. What promises are made by the questions they ask and how they are addressed? How does the problem of climate in the city become known and acted upon? And for whom is this knowledge valuable? In exploring these questions, our aim is to better understand how climate change has emerged as an urban 'matter of concern' and how the enactments of climate politics, performed on the highly uneven terrain of contemporary cities, relate to the wider promise of green cities. Please submit abstracts to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by 15th April 2012. Further details about the conference can be found at: http://www.cresc.ac.uk/events/cresc-annual-conference Dr. Hannah Knox Research Fellow ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change 178 Waterloo Place University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL Tel: +44 (0)161 2758989 www.cresc.ac.uk<http://www.cresc.ac.uk> www.cresc.ac.uk/people/hannah-knox<http://www.cresc.ac.uk/people/hannah-knox> ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new * * CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com * * an international directory of anthropology researchers * ***************************************************************