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Second CFP - Rethinking urban governance in the everyday. Deadline Oct. 10th. Do join us! *Rethinking Urban Governance in the Everyday: Pluralizing the Modes, > Regimes and Multiplicities of Environmental and Infrastructural Governance > * > > > > *Organizers* > > Yaffa Truelove (Yale-NUS College) and Natasha Cornea (University College > of London) > *Sponsor* CAPE - Cultural and Political Ecology working group > > > *Call for Papers* > > AAG 2017 Boston (April 5-9) > > > > Recent work on cities of the global South has focused on what Schindler > (2014) calls “multiplicities of governance regimes,” or the coexistence of > plural modalities, rationalities, and practices of everyday governance that > involve a diverse range of state and non-state actors and institutions > (Shwartz et al., 2015; Gabriel, 2014; Cornea et al., 2016; Finewood and > Holifield, 2015; Hausermann, 2012; Lindell, 2008). This scholarship has > focused most distinctly on pluralizing the logics, spaces, and practices of > environmental and infrastructural governance across a range of cities. In > relation to water governance and service provisioning, Schwartz et al. > (2015: 31), for example, examine the “meshwork” in which the actors of > water provisioning embody both state and non-state identities and use such > identities in various sites of governance to develop everyday institutions > of regulation in Greater Maputo. Jaglin’s work utilizes the concept > “delivery configurations” to reveal the complex assemblages of key actors, > officials, authorities with the materiality of the built environment that > shape the heterogeneity of actually existing configurations of governance > and infrastructure on the ground. Ranganathan (2014) examines the seam of > the state by which informal and formal public authorities converge in the > provisioning of water by the so-called “water mafia” in Bangalore, > alongside and interwoven with other governance regimes. These studies > demonstrate the plural logics, contradictions, and tensions present in > everyday environmental and infrastructural governance, examining services > and infrastructures “beyond the networked city” (Coutard and Rutherford, > 2016) to include a wider array of practices, materials and strategies of > regulation. > > This session aims to contribute to this body of work by rethinking and > pluralizing diverse everyday governance configurations through a variety of > geographic and interdisciplinary lenses, including urban political ecology, > assemblage thinking, and anthropologies of the state (among others). We > encourage paper submissions that provide critical empirical and theoretical > insights into building a more diverse, robust, and nuanced analysis of > urban everyday governance. Whilst the indicative references have > predominately focused on cities in the South, we equally welcome cases from > the North. Potential areas of inquiry include but are not limited to: > > > > - Critical examinations of the power and politics of diverse everyday > governance modalities in shaping uneven urban geographies, differing spaces > of the city, and/or uneven consequences and lived experiences for diverse > social groups > - > - Investigations of meshworks and diverse delivery configurations of > services and infrastructures, and their implications on thinking through > everyday governance > - > - Evaluations of differing conceptual models for theorizing state and > non-state actors and institutions in shaping everyday urban governance > - > - The policy implications for thinking through differing > multiplicities of governance regimes in cities > - > - The potential analytical purchase of combining differing > theoretical frameworks for examining everyday governance > > > > > Please submit paper abstracts to Yaffa Truelove ( > [log in to unmask]) and Natasha Cornea ([log in to unmask]) > by *October 10th. Authors will be notified by October 15th*. > > > > > > Indicative References > > > > Berenschot, W. (2010). Everyday Mediation: The Politics of Public > Service Delivery in Gujarat, India. *Development and Change *41(5) 883-905 > > Bierschenk, T., and Olivier de Sardan J-P editors (2014) *States at Work: > Dynamics of African Bureaucracies*. Leiden & Boston: Brill. > > Coutard, O., and Jonathan Rutherford, editors (2016). *Beyond the > Networked City: Infrastructure reconfigurations and urban change in the > North and South*. Routledge. > > > > Cornea, N., Zimmer, A., and Véron, R. (2016). Ponds, Power and > Institutions: The Everyday Governance of Accessing Urban Water Bodies in a > Small Bengali Town. *International Journal of Urban and Regional > Research, *doi:10.1111/1468-2427.12377 > > > > Finewood, M. H., & Holifield, R. (2015). Critical approaches to urban > water governance: from critique to justice, democracy, and > transdisciplinary collaboration. *Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water* > , *2*(2), 85-96. > > > > Gabriel, N. (2014). Urban political ecology: Environmental imaginary, > governance, and the non-human. Geography Compass, 8(1), 38-48. > > Hausermann, H. (2012) From polygons to politics: Everyday practice and > environmental governance in Veracruz, Mexico. *Geoforum *43(5) 1002-1013 > > Jaglin, S. (2014). “Rethinking urban heterogeneity” in *The Routledge > Handbook on Cities of the Global South*, 434. (Eds.) Sue Parnell and > Sophie Oldfield. New York: Routledge. > > > > Lindell, I. (2008). The Multiple Sites of Urban Governance: Insights from > an African City. *Urban Studies *45(9) 1879-1901 > > Ranganathan, M. (2014). 'Mafias' in the waterscape: Urban informality > and everyday public authority in Bangalore. *Water Alternatives*, *7*(1). > > > > Schindler, S. (2014). A New Delhi every day: multiplicities of governance > regimes in a transforming metropolis. *Urban Geography*, *35*(3), 402-419. > > > > Schwartz, K., Tutusaus Luque, M., Rusca, M., & Ahlers, R. (2015). (In) > formality: the meshwork of water service provisioning. *Wiley > Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water*, *2*(1), 31-36. >