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• 07 nov 2012	08 nov 2012	09 nov 2012
  10 nov 2012

  Barcelona

  Conference, symposium - Urban studies

  Desertions, Counter-movements and Forced Mobilities in the Contemporary City

  First International Conference on Anthropology of Urban Conflict

  Social conflict is inherent in urban society in general. Social conflict is a historic constant that makes cities the epicenter of revolt in all of its forms. Despite our attempts to systematically classify the varied logics that lay behind existing disparate scales of uprising, e.g. large mass movements, small groups organized around blueprint actions, or individuals that quietly rebelled with daily contempt, to date it has not been possible to bring them all under a common systemic defiance. Political movements vs. social movements, peaceful vs. violent actions, organization vs. spontaneity, etc., these are old dichotomies overcome by the force of the present situation. So, how does conflict come about in contemporary cities? The varied kinds of agitation featured in the current crisis are a good example of the different types of rebellion against public order, the norms that sustain it, and the authorities that implement them. From a demonstration against government cuts to apolitical graffiti somewhere on the urban fringe, from insubordination against mortgage repossessions to the refusal to pay for the use of public transport, from symbolic happenings performed in public spaces to the defense, at any cost, of squatted housing, of neighborhood resistance against evictions or of the opposition to identification raids on undocumented migrants.

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• 07 nov 2012

  08 nov 2012

  09 nov 2012

  Cairo

  Conference, symposium - Urban studies

  Revolts and Transitions in the Arab World: Towards a New Urban Agenda?

  This international colloquium aims to discuss the urban dimension of the great changes in the Arab world, from the origins of the 2011 revolutionary episodes to the present experiences of democratisation, along with phases of political transition and socio-economic crisis in which states are still entangled. Our objective is to (re)consider processes of urbanisation and urban practices, by the yardstick of the political, economic and social issues relevant in the region since the beginning of the decade. Organized by the Pole "City and Sustainable Development" of the CEDEJ (http://www.cedej-eg.org/), this colloquium is also part of two ongoing research programs : - Sustainable City in the South Mediterranean (MeRsi project), co-funded by the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (Academic Agency of French-speaking countries)- Middle East Office and the CEDEJ; - SYSREMO: Global Geographies : Towards a regional system in the Middle East, funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (National Agency for Research), France (ESO-Rennes).

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• 15 avr 2012

  Saint-Étienne

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Conceptions of heritage

  Intersecting views on heritage creations and their special features

  La pensée du patrimoine diffère considérablement selon le lieu, le temps et l’univers linguistique dans lequel elle prend forme. Sa variabilité s’exprime particulièrement lorsqu’il s’agit de traduire la notion de patrimonialisation, ne serait-ce qu’en anglais, indiquant ainsi la profondeur historique des différences entre les traditions nationales. S’ajoutent aujourd’hui les études postcoloniales ou les effets des flux mondiaux qui redéfinissent les grands récits sur lesquels les traditions patrimoniales s’étaient constituées. C’est dans ce contexte que la question patrimoniale doit être posée, tant dans ce qu’elle touche au savoir et aux conceptions particulières de la notion, que dans le vivre-ensemble et la gouvernance.

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