Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] Social movements,
citizenship and critical urban praxis CFP: Lumpen-City - Discourses
of Marginality | Marginalizing Discourses
Inizio messaggio inoltrato:
> Da: Roger Keil <rkeil@???>
> Data: 13 ottobre 2008 0:03:10 GMT+02:00
> A: comurb_r21@???
> Oggetto: [Comurb_r21] CFP: Lumpen-City - Discourses of Marginality |
> Marginalizing Discourses
>
> *** Please forward widely *** Sorry for crosspostings ***
>
>
> CFP: Interdisciplinary Conference at York University, Toronto, Canada
> March 12-13, 2009
>
> Lumpen-City:
> Discourses of Marginality | Marginalizing Discourses
>
> Research on marginalized urban residents has been an academic cottage
> industry throughout the history of the social sciences – addressing
> social problems related to issues such as poverty, crime, youth, race,
> ethnicity, gender, health, and employment. To apprehend these notions
> of difference, conceptualizations of the poor, the underclass, the
> outcast, the ghetto, exclusion, marginality and others have been
> developed and applied. Inevitably, research defines and represents a
> group and as such influences everyday preconceptions and
> politico-administrative strategies, including policies, regulations
> and laws.
>
> Contextualizing cultural and behavioural patterns of marginalized
> populations, academic and activist research commonly seeks to humanize
> an excluded group and/ or suggest alternative strategies of
> intervention and modes of engagement by which to remedy the inequities
> of a particular situation. However, by virtue of representation fixity
> is imposed upon the identified population. Marginalized and excluded
> groups are often rendered vulnerable and passive through the
> circumscribed dictates of representational inscription. How can
> innovative and creative discourses break with this pattern of
> subjection?
>
> This conference challenges academics and activist-scholars alike to
> reflect upon the realities and potentialities of research on
> marginalized urban populations in the context of their struggles. We
> invite scholarly contributions which illuminate issues of
> representation by exploring multiple axes of identity such as class,
> race, gender, ethnicity, age, ability / disability, and sexuality.
>
> The York University Sociology Graduate Students' Association (YSGA) in
> conjunction with the City Institute at York University and the
> Collaborative Urban Research Laboratory (CURL) invite academics and
> activist-scholars to participate in the interdisciplinary debates of
> this conference on Thursday, March 12th and Friday, March 13th 2009 in
> Toronto, Canada.
>
> We accept proposals for:
> - Academic papers (Presentation of 20 minutes)
> - Short films, art, poetry or other forms of creative dialogue.
>
> The deadline for proposals / abstracts (approx. 250 words) is
> December 15th.
> Submission materials and general inquiries should be addressed to:
> LumpenCity2009@???
>
> Selected papers will be considered for publication.
>
> Travel bursaries may be available.
>
>
> Possible areas of engagement include, but are not limited to:
>
> 1. Methodological engagements:
>
> The poetics and politics of representation
> Comparing marginality across borders & boundaries
> The description, inscription, and circumscription of research design
> Ethnographic immersions
> Activist alliances
> Methodological alterities: Narratives of inversion/subversion
>
> 2. Institutional interrogations:
>
> Local, extra-local, regional, national, international
> contextualizations
> Welfare state retrenchment and visions of poverty
> The funding and financing of research
> Fashions, fads and foibles of urban research
> Re-structuring the university
> University-community collaborations
>
> 3. Controversies and Contestations:
>
> Spectacularization of the urban outcast
> Spaces of Struggle: Neoliberal citizenship and representations of
> urban marginality
> Post/Colonialism and the metropolis
> The Unrepresentable Multitude in the Lumpen-City
> Public sociology / sociologies
> The marginalized and media discourse
>
> 4. Challenges and Change:
>
> The role of activism in academia
> Critique and the public sphere
> Research, resistance and revolution
> Envisioning the just city: claiming the right to the city
> Social movements, citizenship and critical urban praxis
> Progressive visual and aesthetic engagements
>
>
> --
> Roger Keil
> Director
> The City Institute at York University (CITY)
>
> http://www.yorku.ca/city > http://www.yorku.ca/fes/faculty/keil/index.asp >
> Co-editor The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
> (IJURR)
> http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0309-1317 >
>
>
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