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• 23 nov 2014

  Ouargla

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Mutations of the Saharan city

  Comparative approaches to social change and urban practices

  Ce colloque aborde la question des mutations sociales qui sont en œuvre dans les villes sahariennes. L’urbanisation de ces dernières années atteste de la vitalité d’un phénomène bouleversant en profondeur les modes de vie, les structures sociales et les économies oasiennes. Lieux de nouvelles urbanités où les liens sociaux se recomposent, elles sont traversées par des tensions qui tiennent tant aux contextes locaux, aux conflits régionaux, qu’à celui de la globalisation. Le colloque permettra de faire le point sur les recherches en cours et réfléchira sur de nouvelles pistes de recherche. Les différents champs disciplinaires s’intéressant à la ville seront convoqués pour permettre une présentation, une confrontation, un croisement des différentes approches.

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• 05 sep 2014

  Venice

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Experimental and alternative urbanism in the MENA region: building a critical and ‘political’ research on the ‘new’ modes of making the city

  Italian Association for Middle Eastern Studies (SeSaMO) Annual Conference - Panel 12

  This panel focuses on the renewed forms to build the city in the MENA region (‘environmental planning’, ‘resilient urbanism’, ‘responsive urbanism’, participatory and ‘collaborative’ initiatives, ‘sustainable’ urbanism…). The panel will tackle two types of spaces: informal settlements, where experimental forms and new methods are at work, and major eco-projects which have adopted in recent years ecological processes, along with global strategies. The major research hypothesis is that the MENA region shows at least since the 2000s new forms of urbanism that, to varying degrees, bring weak but maybe harbinger/forerunner signals of change and innovation, driven by the concepts of environment and sustainability. This is valid for both urban governance and the theoretical underpinnings of it, whereby professional training and the learning ways of doing, thinking and working on the city, shows some progressive changes. The panel will seek to understand why, however, the MENA seems to experience difficulties in ‘refreshing its software’ on regional, national and local theory and practice of urban planning. 

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