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Raul, Hope all is well with you! This looks interesting. Am trying to decide to go or not, to submit or not. Sam Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 15, 2019, at 8:58 AM, Raul Acosta <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > 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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.iuaes2019.org_paper-2Dguidelines_&d=DwIFaQ&c=lb62iw4YL4RFalcE2hQUQealT9-RXrryqt9KZX2qu2s&r=fUGEgDVmf3ylbYBgXy56X5un4KCMY2RczPMFwwm9WEY&m=joC69ElO-ITlTfYx24eb4u0_uGufL7xquHEKcFMfZrM&s=A1r5dTFm29DlMTlrf2ovkPlDVnBFHbNxyfxP6EO9H3w&e=>, 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]). 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