Dear colleagues and friends,
We invite paper proposals to a workshop organized by Leiden University and
the Netherlands Institute in Morocco (NIMAR), this coming November 22-23rd
in Rabat, Morocco.
We look forward to receiving your submissions before *September 5th, 2018*.
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*Urban Space and The Common Good in North Africa and The Middle East*
In recent decades, unprecedented rates of urbanization on a global level
have led to profound changes in existing social, economic, religious and
cultural structures and institutions, broadly understood. No topic has
been, however, as exhaustively researched and written about in this context
of current hyper-urbanization, as the problems associated with urban
expansion. Popularized by books like Mike Davis’ *Planet of Slums*, the
images associated with this global condition are colored by such terms as
poverty, inequality, religious radicalization, social anomie, insecurity,
and lack of basic infrastructures.
This workshop proposes to give equal space to the consideration of how
ideas, practices, norms, and material forms found in urban settings engage
with (or frequently omit), define and produce the ‘common good’, broadly
conceived. We are interested in examples from North Africa but also links
with and dynamics between the region and its neighbors, as well as
diasporic linkages and connections.
By bringing together multidisciplinary, ethnographic, historical, cultural,
religious, and critical studies, we aim to explore how ideas, discourses,
and practices about collective living, ‘the good life’, morality, urban
diversity, and the ‘commons’ are expressed in urban settings in the region.
We invite scholars to submit proposals (in English or French) that
critically engage with the following topics. Topics we are interested in
exploring, but are not limited to:
- Historical and theoretical approaches to legal, religious, social, and
cultural definitions of the ‘common good’ in regional (North African) and
trans-national perspectives;
- Engagement with the ‘good life’ or dwelling together in literature,
film, music, or art from and about the region;
- Material and immaterial heritage practices as examples of the
production of ‘common’ or collective histories of co-habitation with
‘others’, broadly defined;
- Religious organizations, charity, and the transformation and shaping
of urban infrastructures for the provision of philanthropic care;
- Nurturing the urban collective through cultivating land and feeding
the city, peri-urban agriculture and cuisines of urban mixing;
- The ‘common good’ as imagined by and implemented through political and
economic discourses, and forms of policing and governing urban space;
- Marginality and the common good, slum-resettlement programs, high-end
mega-city projects.
- Methodological approaches towards new critical urban studies as well
as teaching pedagogies related to urban change;
Please send a 300-word abstract before September 15 to Cristiana Strava and
Maryame Amarouche at: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
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