Panel convenors: Christoph Brumann (Max Planck Institute for Social
Anthropology) & Emanuela Guano (Georgia State University)
*Urban Temporalities (P042)*
Cities often push the here and now onto their inhabitants and visitors,
overwhelming them with dense and diverse impressions and experiences.
But they are also places oriented towards a chronological elsewhere,
having a past and aspiring to a future that may be no less on people's
minds. This panel seeks to explore the complex interrelations - not
necessarily antithetical only - between multiple urban time horizons.
Some cities live predominantly off the past, enshrining their historical
buildings and cultural specifics that engender local pride and foreign
admiration (e.g. Venice, Kyoto or Marrakesh). Others, instead, embrace
the future in the form of spectacular projects and innovative planning
(e.g. Dubai, Astana or Brasilia). Most cities, however, do both at the
same time, and contemporary urban branding often aims at a judicious
balance between the conservation of selected heritage items and the
promise that architecture, neighbourhoods, and cultural styles are at
the forefront of trendiness and innovation.
We call for ethnographically grounded contributions that analyse this
interplay. Possible foci include the political and financial dynamics
and the politicians, developers, conservationists, planners, builders,
and real estate brokers that most directly influence the physical shape
and larger visions of the city, as well as ordinary residents' or
visitors' takes on, and engagement with, these larger processes and the
ensuing phenomena such as commercialisation, gentrification,
displacement, and resistance. What does having one foot in the past and
one in the future imply for urban presents?
/*Please submit your paper proposals through the EASA website
at*/**https://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2018/
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Prof. Dr. Christoph Brumann
Head of Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Honorary Professor, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
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