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From: Daniel Monterescu <[log in to unmask]>
Greetings.
As part of the annual Mediterranean Meeting to be held in Mersin, Turkey
(March 20-23, 2013) we are coordinating a workshop on the links between
violence, pluralism, urbanism and the 2011 uprisings in the Middle East,
North Africa and Southern Europe (see details below). The title of the
workshop (no. 11) is: "The Violence of Pluralism: Urban Transformations and
New Political Subjectivities in the Rebellious Mediterranean."
We seek empirical and theoretical papers addressing these processes from
young and established scholars in the social sciences and humanities.
Contemporary and historical perspectives are both welcome.
The organizers will provide partial funding for travel expenses of select
participants.
The deadline for abstract submission is September 15. Decisions will be
made my early October. Final papers are due by February 15.
For more details see:
http://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/RobertSchumanCentre/Research/Interna
tionalTransnationalRelations/MediterraneanProgramme/MRM/Mrm2013.aspx
To send your abstract, fill in the online form at:
http://www.rscas.org/application/?p=apply&appl=mrm2013
*Workshop 11: The Violence of Pluralism: Urban Transformations and New
Political Subjectivities in the Rebellious Mediterranean*
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Daniel Monterescu,
Central European University, Hungary
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Benoit Challand,
New York University, USA
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Abstract
The 2011 Arab uprisings and indignados protests in cities throughout the
Mediterranean basin have witnessed the rise of a new historical generation
intimately tied to evolving social and urban landscapes. More than a year
later, certain cities remain a crucial site for staging the ongoing
struggles against the remnants of the old order in Arab countries or
massive protests in European countries. Although often depicted as
relatively peaceful, these popular revolts have generated forms of
violence, which challenge our understanding of how urban pluralism within
various boundaries and scales (ethnic, religious, spatial, etc.) has been
managed in a comparative perspective. This workshop seeks to break away
from simplistic Orientalist strands of scholarship, which emphasize
antiquity, confinement or religiosity around Muslim or holy cities, as well
as from colonial depictions of urban duality -- a literature that too often
overlooks inter-communal dynamics at the micro-level and underestimates
social networking across ethnic divides. Instead, the workshop seeks papers
that can shed light on the historical and contemporary urban
transformations, which have favored the emergence of new political
subjectivities and cross-sectarian alliances as well as violent communal
conflicts.
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Daniel Monterescu
Central European University
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