RC21 Call for Papers
XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 11-17,
2010.
The call for papers is listed at ISA web page (
http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010/rc/rc21.htm
). It is also listed at
https://www.msu.edu/user/fujitak/SessionsGothenburg2010.pdf
Your paper abstract including paper title, short description (within
200 words), and name, affiliation, country and email address as paper
author(s) should be sent to session organizers as well as conference
coordinators: Fernando Diaz Orueta Fernando.diaz@??? and Kuniko
Fujita fujitak@??? by October 31, 2009.
Participants are limited to only one paper presentation within RC21
program. Any individual may participate in two sessions. Session
organizers can present their papers only outside their own sessions.
RC21 travel grants for Gothenburg will be announced in January 2010.
Contentious Cities: Diversity, Injustice and the Building of a Fair
Urban Environment
Luca Pattaroni (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, SWITZERLAND) luca.pattaroni@???
Tommaso Vitale (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, ITALY)
tommaso.vitale@???
Globalizing cities are confronted with increasing flows of people
(migrations), information and goods, leading to growing complexity and
heterogeneity (rhythms, convictions, lifestyles, cultures, feelings,
interests). This heterogeneity clashes with opposing trends of
homogenisation related, for example, to the circulation of
architectural models, the extension of neo-liberal policies and
gentrifying processes. As a result, contemporary cities are places of
territorial and social conflicts playing a central role in their
development. Those conflicts are processes where various scales,
actors, objects and discourses interact and clash resulting in
reproduction or transformation of urban order. Thus, behind urban
conflicts lies the more fundamental question of how differences are
integrated or excluded, that is how a (more or less) common world is
built out of diversity or else how inequalities arise and are
experienced leading to feelings of injustice and exclusion. The study
of urban conflicts is at the crossroad of many major debates of
contemporary (urban) sociology, such as the one concerning the
transformation of social movements and public policies, the evolution
of inequalities, emerging feelings of injustice and exclusion, the
links between distributive justice and recognition. In this
perspective, this session welcomes innovative and dynamic approaches
to urban conflicts. Studies mixing different data collection methods
to grasp contentious dynamic in a comparative/historical way are
particularly encouraged.
Dead line: October 31, 2009
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Tommaso Vitale
Dipartimento di Sociologia e della Ricerca Sociale
Università di Milano Bicocca
via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8
20126 Milano
tel: ++39.02 6448 7477
skype: tomvita
New book:
www.carocci.it/politichepossibili
New issue of the Scientific Journal "Partecipazione e conflitto":
http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/sommario.asp?IDRivista=152
