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Subject: [AllCES] Call for Papers - Public spaces and private lives in the
contemporary city (ESA - Lisbon)
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FYI
Call for Papers
European Sociological Association
Research Network 37 "Urban Sociology"Mid-Term Conference
Public spaces and private lives in the contemporary city
Lisbon, FCSH-UNL,19-21st November 2014
Organisation: CESNOVA, FCSH-UNL and IS-FLUP, in cooperation with
Dinâmia'CET-IUL, CIES-IUL and CES-UC
Urban Sociology 's history is as old as Sociology itself. Urban
Sociology can be found on classic literature: Durkheim's concepts of
social morphology and organic solidarity; Weber and the genesis of the
city; Simmel and the representations of themetropolis; Engels and the
working class' ways to inhabit the city; and, last but not least,
theschool of Chicago with authors such as Robert E. Park or Louis
Wirth.
Today, there is a renewed interest in urban issues and urban questions
have gained a newfocus in public policies and public debate. Themes
such as public spaces, suburbs, urbansecurity, urban violence, ways of
inhabiting, transitions from rural to urban, neighborhoodand
proximity, urban inequalities, etc.; returned to the sociological
debate with an unexpectedforce in globalisation times. Research is
also debating the impact of current economic crisis on urban life, and
how to re-think cities on the aftermath.Being an area with a
cumulative critical thought, Urban Sociology's contribution is key for
the development of the discipline as a whole, and for the
understanding of ourmultiple and unachieved modernities.
For this Midterm Conference, which inaugurates ESA's Research Network
in Urban Sociology,we invite submissions addressing a wide variety of
issues, as suggested in the four conferencetracks. We accept both
theoretical and empirical papers contributing to the development
ofUrban Sociology, and we welcome interdisciplinarity, as a requisite
for broadening thescope of scientific research.
Conference tracks
1. Culture and mega events in contemporary cities
Cultural and festive dynamics are strongly related to great physical,
social, cultural andeconomic transformations in cities worldwide,
often involving the (re)production of bothestablished and new urban
inequalities. This conference track aims to debatethis broad issue but
also the more specific phenomena of cultural and sports mega eventsand
the way they contribute to re-shape cities and their public spaces by
challenging urbancoexistence.
2. Networks and sociabilities
Sociability has progressively been a concept of intense debate within
the scope ofsocial sciences in general, and sociology in particular.
In this track we are interestedin discussing the role of urban
sociability on the construction of social networks andthe
configuration of circuits. Specially in the context of social,
political, cultural andartistic movements. We welcome papers focusing
on both online and offline socialnetworks, as well as
interdisciplinary research about sociability in contemporarysociety.
3. Public and private tensions in urban places, lives and meanings
Public and private uses of urban space are key aspects in the tense
and conflictual processesof creating and remaking places. This track
is concerned with topics like (1) power, urbanform and experience,
namely in the relation between urban management /
administrationpractices and everyday uses of spaces (e.g. shopping
malls, gated communities, slums,plazas, streets and urban voids); (2)
(in)visibility and (un)awereness of both private troublesand public
issues (e.g. in labour, housing, mobility and leisure) and theirimpact
on placemaking and everyday life of urban populations; (3) conditions
ofcoexistence of urban groups and individuals (e.g. visitors and
residents, neighbours andstrangers, tourists and workers, commuters
and trapped populations) and its effects onurban spaces, lives and
meanings.
4. Territories of exclusion and (in)security
Security and the feeling of insecurity has always been central to the
urban socialfabric. Portrayal of the city as an insecure place has
been a very powerfulone, triggering the constitution and
reconstitution of institutions, strategies, tactics,technologies and
techniques undertaken by multiple actors from state and
localassociations to individual schemes of public and private safety.
In this track we aim toaddress these issues and discuss how they are
intrinsic elements in the production andreproduction of urban
territories and urban social groups.
http://www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn37-
urban-sociology/234-rn37-news.html
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