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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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• 17 jui 2011

  18 jui 2011

  Aix-en-Provence

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  Doing, governing, and criticising development in the Arab world

  Reconsideration of a field

  Journées d'étude du projet TANMIA, les 17 et 18 juin 2011 à Aix-en-Provence.

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• 28 oct 2011

  Nogent-sur-Marne

  Miscellaneous information - Sociology

  Fragiles states and societies: Perspective from the South (Haïti, Palestine, Burkina, Burundi)

  International Round-table

  Projet Raid (Réseau académique international sur le développement et les dynamiques des Suds). L’Université d’Ottawa (EDIM) et l’Université de Paris I (IEDES_UMR 201) vous invitent, le vendredi 28 octobre, de 9h30 à 13h à l’IEDES (Paris I) ou en direct sur internet, à suivre et à participer à la table ronde suivante : Comment les Etats et sociétés dits « fragiles » interagissent, s’adaptent et résistent à la coopération internationale faite au nom de leur fragilité ? Perspectives depuis le Burundi, le Burkina Faso, Haïti et les territoires palestiniens.

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