EUROSEAS Call for papers, panel: “Transforming Southeast Asian Cities: a View from the Grassroots”

Lisbon, 2-5 July 2013 – Deadline for submitting abstracts 1500 characters + short biosketch : 15th November 2012

This panel focuses on the means of individuals and groups to access urban power. Based on empirical approaches, the aim of this panel is to analyze contemporary urban dynamics at the local scale in Southeast Asian cities. In particular we will address mechanisms of urban change, as they can be seen at the neighborhood level. With the ongoing transformations, both in city centers and in the peripheries, are there new forms of urban practices, of resistance? What is the role of the people at the grassroots in such transformations? These interactions can be read from such scales as the home, the street and the neighborhood. From this viewpoint, how can we consider urban oppositional processes, for instance a formal sector to an informal one, public actors to private ones, the authorities to citizens? Such processes in fact question not only the ways a city is shaped by its inhabitants, but also the effective role, power and voices of the various stakeholders. People are contributing to the evolution of the city, by developing strategies and adapting local space to their needs. But these adaptations also reveal inequalities between inhabitants depending on their social, political and economic resources. 

Scholars and postgraduate research students in any discipline are invited to submit proposals. The abstract submission (1500 signs plus a short biosketch) should be send to Marie Gibert (marie_gibert@hotmail.com) before the 15th of November. The panel will be finalised by the end of November. For more information about the conference: http://www.euroseas.org.

Organizers: Gabriel FAUVEAUD, Ph.D. student, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Mixed Research Unit Prodig gabriel.fauveaud@gmail.com; Marie GIBERT, Ph.D. student, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne – Mixed Research Unit Prodig marie_gibert@hotmail.com; Jérôme TADIÉ, Research Fellow, IRD (Institut de recherche pour le développement) Mixed Research Unit Prodig jerome.tadie@ird.frwww.inverses.org

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