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Autore: Tommaso Vitale
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To: ML movimenti Bicocca, étudiants du GSPM
Oggetto: [movimenti.bicocca] The Right to Public Space and the Politics of the Unprivileged


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> Da: "Judit Bodnar" <Bodnarj@???>
> Data: 22 febbraio 2007 16:59:23 GMT+01:00
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> Call for Papers
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> International Sociological Association Research Committee 21 on
> Sociology of Urban and Regional Development
> URBAN JUSTICE AND SUSTAINABILITY
> August 22 - 25, 2007
> Venue: Forest Sciences Center, UBC, Vancouver, British Columbia,
> Canada
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> Panel
> The Right to Public Space and the Politics of the Unprivileged
> Organizer: Judit Bodnar (Central European University) Bodnarj@???
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> The right to public space is constitutive of the right to the city
> and citizenship. It entails the right to be seen and to see others
> in public and use space as a resource. Public space has always
> operated through a set of exclusions. This panel examines the
> exclusions through which the new order and politics of public space
> emerge in neoliberal urban restructuring. The globalizing city
> collects a disproportionate share of disenfranchised actors, for
> many of whom it is through the politics of place that they gain
> recognition as citizens. Their right to public space is the right
> to strategic places which provide them with a livelihood, as it is
> for vendors, beggars, entertainers and prostitutes; the right to a
> dwelling as in the case of homeless and undocumented slum dwellers;
> the right to strategic visibility for the poor that earns them
> recognition and make them escape the confines of locality by
> becoming a social problem, a problem of the city, tourism and the
> country’s capacity to allure capital. The panel invites
> contributions that illuminate contemporary politics of public space
> especially as they are related to the politics of the unprivileged.
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> Please send the title and abstract of your paper to the session
> organizer and the RC21 Secretary Fernando Diaz Orueta
> (Fernando.Diaz@???) by
> April 30, 2007.
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> The abstract of your paper should be limited to 100 words and
> include your name, affiliation and email address.
> The final programme will be available on the RC21 webpage.
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> See more on http://www.shakti.uniurb.it/rc21/
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> Judit Bodnar
> History and Sociology/Anthropology
> Central European University
> Nador u 9
> Budapest, H-1051