CONFERENCE AT MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY!!!
‘Everyday Life in the Global City’
The Manchester Institute of Social and Spatial Transformations (MISST) at Manchester Metropolitan University is organizing a conference for July 9th-11th 2007.
Everyday life has often been neglected in studies of globalisation across the social sciences and humanities. Yet focus on the everyday is useful in both challenging and grounding theories about the global city. Because of its often unreflexive, habitual nature, everyday experience and practice is apt to be overlooked by rather over-general theories about the global. This conference seeks to reinstall the everyday as a focus for enquiry. We aim to explore tensions between cultural specificities and global processes, investigate the banality of institutionalized elite transnational practices, and interrogate existing notions of the ‘everyday’. We also aim to critically question how the conceptualizing of global cities might be challenged by a focus upon everyday urban practices
- Themes based on aspects of everyday life in non-Western cities are especially welcome.
Suggestions for papers should address the following.
- Conceptualizing the everyday in a global context: How are global flows (of things, images,
people, money) incorporated into everyday urban practices? Alternatively, how might
unreflexive, everyday practices provide a grounded sense of place and maintain local cultural identity?
- Cosmopolitanism: How might the notion of everyday cosmopolitanism challenge contemporary conceptualizations of cosmopolitanism?
- Transnational elite practices: How do the everyday practices of business, intellectual
and cultural elites (re)produce urban governance and economy? How are these contested?
- Popular urban culture: How do transnational music, sport, fashion and dining practices, as
well as other forms of popular consumption, provide everyday milieus for performing urban life?
- Glocal hybridity: How can the city be conceived as a site in which everyday ‘glocal’ and
‘hybrid’ forms of identity and culture are continually (re)produced?
- Multicultural relations, diversity and conflict: How do different migrant, ethnic and religious
groups discover, (re)invent and (re)produce forms of everyday urban life?
Additional Information
All papers arriving in time will be collated and presented in a conference booklet. The organisers enjoy a range of close contacts with a number of key publishers and are confident that book contracts will be negotiated based on selective conference papers.
Abstracts should be emailed by May 31st 2007 at the latest to one of the people identified below. The organizers will regularly deal with incoming abstracts in batches and inform participants of our decision.
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Dr Tim Edensor
Reader in Cultural Geography
Department of Geography
Manchester Metropolitan University
John Dalton Extension
Chester Street
Manchester
M1 5GD
0161 247 6284
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British Industrial Ruins
http://www.sci-eng.mmu.ac.uk/british_industrial_ruins/
and
Spaces of Dereliction: Industrial Ruins in the UK
http://www.sci-eng.mmu.ac.uk/industrial_ruins/
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