Inizio del messaggio inoltrato:
> Da: Lars Frers <frers@???>
> Data: 23 gennaio 2005 20:03:06 CET
> A: COMURB_R21@???
> Oggetto: conf: Negotiating Urban Conflicts, Darmstadt/Germany, April
> 7-9, 2005
> Rispondere-A: Lars Frers <frers@???>
>
> University of Technology Darmstadt (Germany), Department of Sociology,
> April 7th-9th 2005
>
> <http://www.urban-conflicts.net/>
>
> Cities have always been arenas of social and symbolic conflict. As
> places of encounter between different classes, ethnic groups, and
> lifestyles, one of the major roles they are predestined to play is
> that of a powerful integrator; yet on the other hand urban contexts
> are, as it were, the ideal setting for marginalization and violence.
> The struggle for control of urban spaces is an ambivalent mode of
> socialization, one that cuts systematically across the whole of
> everyday life: in and by producing themselves, groups produce
> exclusive spaces and then, in turn, use the boundaries they have
> created to define themselves. The spatial politics subscribed to by
> social actors at the same time shape the contour of the city's inner
> order and the symbolic universes of the groups living in it.
>
> The struggle for territorial control and spatial arrangements and
> orders focuses some of the motives ? fundamental in nature though not
> adequately borne in mind by social policy and social theory ? apparent
> in all types of urban conflict.
>
> Building on this premise, the conference will center on various
> mutually disruptive and reinforcing spatial politics with a view to
> pinpointing some old and new conflict potentials, but without losing
> sight of the need to identify altered negotiating processes. To put
> the conference in a nutshell: "acting," "acting on," "negotiating" are
> its thematic focuses, the aim being to conceptualize spatial politics
> from the perspective of
> a) actors,
> b) institutional regimes,
> c) constructions of difference with the processes of compromise which
> they entail.
>
> This thematic focus will be discussed utilizing the theoretical
> background of Postcolonialism to widen the eurocentric perception of
> urban conflicts.
>
>
> ***AGENDA
>
> **Thursday, April 7, 2005, 15.00h ? 18:30h:
>
> *Plenary Session: Postcolonial Cities
> Martina Löw (Darmstadt), Helmuth Berking (Darmstadt): "Introduction"
> Anthony King (New York): "Postcolonial Cities and Postcolonial
> Critiques: Realities and Representations"
> Couze Venn (Nottingham): "The Postcolonial City as Diasporic
> Assemblages"
>
>
> **Friday, April 8, 2005, 9.00h ? 13:00h; 14:30h ? 18:30h / Saturday,
> April 9, 2005, 9.00h ? 13:00h:
> Parallel Panel Sessions
>
> **Panel: "Acting" (Chair: Bruno Arich-Gerz (Darmstadt))
>
> *Micropolitics
> Ayse Caglar (Budapest): "Migration, Conflict and the Question of Urban
> Scale"
> Helmuth Berking (Darmstadt): "Space, Place, Power: The Spatial
> Pitfalls of 'Doing City'"
> Dan Rabinowitz (Tel Aviv): "Nazareth Re-examined: Spatial Aspects of
> Religious, Class and Ethnic Struggle"
>
> *Public Space
> Elena Trubina (Ekaterinburg): "On 'Refeudalization' of the Public
> Space and Musealization of the Cities in the Countries in Transition"
> Lars Frers (Darmstadt): "Pacification by Design: An Ethnography of
> Normalization Techniques"
> Tovi Fenster (Tel Aviv): "The Global City and the Holy City:
> Narratives on Knowledge, Planning and Diversity"
>
> *Poverty
> Silke Steets (Darmstadt): "Welcome to Orbit Palace! Spatial Practices
> and Redundant Time."
> Heinz Bude (Hamburg): "The Phenomenon of Exclusion"
> Martin Kronauer (Berlin): "Politics of Spatial Exclusion"
>
> **Panel: "Acting On" (Chair: Hermann Schwengel (Freiburg))
>
> *Institutional Regimes
> Stephen Graham (Durham): "Dialectics of Place Construction in the 'War
> on Terror'"
> Holger Hagge (Frankfurt): Complexity and Challenges of Inner City
> Developments
> Marc Ries (Vienna): "Logics of the Unseen. Representational Strategies
> of Cities in the Internet and Differing Urban Conflict Management"
>
> *Security
> Bernd Belina (Bremen): "Governing through Crime through Space:
> Explaining Spatial Strategies in Recent Urban Policing"
> Kayode Oyesiku (Ago-Iwoye): "Urban Insecurity: Challenges of Urban
> Conflict Resolution in Developing Countries"
> Lisa Law (St. Andrews): "Danger in the Streets of Singapore: Uncanny
> Cartographies of Terrorism Post-9/11"
>
> *Segregation
> Lars Meier (Darmstadt): "Everyday Practices and Segregation ? High
> Potentials in Singapore and London"
> Anouk de Koning (Amsterdam): "Sightings of the Global. Space, Class
> and Gender in Neoliberal Cairo"
> Peter Marcuse (New York): "After September 11: How Not to Deal with
> Conflict"
>
> **Panel "Negotiating" (Chair: Ingrid Breckner (Hamburg))
>
> *Identities
> Sergej Stoetzer (Darmstadt): "Picturing Urban Identities"
> Lily Kong (Singapore): "Religious Processions and Pilgrimages: Urban
> Politics and Poetics"
> Nigel Thrift (Oxford): "Cities of Hatred"
>
> *Heritage
> Anil Bhatti (New Delhi): "Cultural Homogenisation, Places of Memory
> and the Loss of Secular Urban Space"
> Sybille Frank (Darmstadt): "Integrating Contested Heritage
> Interpretations and Representations: The Case of Checkpoint Charlie,
> Berlin"
> Fatima Mayyada Al-Nammari (Texas): "Earthquake Recovery and Historic
> Buildings: Investigating the Conflicts"
>
> *Gender
> Martina Löw / Renate Ruhne (Darmstadt): "Prostitution ? Power
> Relations Between Space and Gender"
> Rashmi Varma (Coventry): "Unhomely Women: Refiguring Gender in the
> City"
> Liz Bondi (Edinburgh): "Doing Identity Work in Urban Space: Gender,
> Psychotherapies and the (Re)negotiation of Boundaries"
>
>
> **Saturday, April 9, 2005, 14:30h ? 16:00h:
>
> *Plenary Session: War in Cities / Cities in War
> Reports and Concluding Remarks of Panel Chairs:
> Bruno Arich-Gerz (Darmstadt), Hermann Schwengel (Freiburg), Ingrid
> Breckner (Hamburg)
> Martina Löw (Darmstadt), Helmuth Berking (Darmstadt): "Subtotal"
>
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>
> i.A. Lars Frers
> Martina Löw
> Helmuth Berking
>
>
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