2nd Call for papers
RGS-IBG conference, Manchester, August 26th-28th 2009.
Apologies for cross-posting.
Session organiser Matt Collins, Dept of Geography, University of Sheffield
First speaker Prof. Steve Pile, Open University
*The Potential of the Urban*
The city is a locus of political and expressive potential, and has strong
associations with political and aesthetic freedom. This session seeks
critically motivated papers addressing intersections between the concept
of the
city and power, the political and the aesthetic. The session is intended
to be
a platform for original, critical discussion of different ways of
imagining and
critiquing the urban. Papers are welcomed from new and established
researchers
that address the city in abstract form or through case studies. Authors are
equally encouraged to address past, present or future dimensions of the
urban.
Examples:
-The city as a basis of/for political life
-Comparison of the polis and the modern city
-The city and the production of knowledge
-What is freedom/what is oppression with regard to the urban?
-Psychoanalysis and expression in the city
-A phenomenology of urban potential
-Critique or celebration of a particular mode of urban life
-A critical reconsideration of a neglected theorist and their relevance to
modern urban thought
Authors should send 200-250 word abstracts of papers to Matt Collins no
later
than 23rd January 2009. For any queries/submissions please email:
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Yours,
Matt Collins-
Dept of Geography
University of Sheffield
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