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H-SHEHR ^^^^^^ CFP: Fragment and Fluid Urbanities (Leipzig, Germany) Dear Colleagues, I am organizing a panel on "Fragment and Fluid Urbanities" at the European Conference on African Studies to be held in Leipzig 4-7 June 2009. I would like to invite innovative papers that contribute to theorizing urban spatialities in African cities beyond dominant accounts of socio-spatial fragmentation. The full panel description is copied below. I have also attached some general information on the conference and on how to submit an abstract. Please review the panel description and consider providing a paper or pass this call for papers to other interested colleagues. Abstracts need to be uploaded to the conference website by December 31, 2008. For a list of the approved panels and further information please see: http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~ecas2009/approvedpanels (Panel 56) For questions regarding the panel please contact me. Yours sincerely, Christine Hentschel Fragmented and Fluid Urbanities This panel seeks to foster a new understanding of urban spatialities in African contexts. It contrasts common accounts of fragmentation, polarisation, and 'new segregation', with more dynamic, fluid understandings of contemporary urban space. Dominant accounts of postcolonial or post-apartheid cities emphasize their deep-rooted or newly created morphologies of social and spatial fragmentation. According to these depictions of contemporary urban realities, the city, as such, does not exist (anymore) and is divided into bubbles of gentrification and forgotten slums, into islands of safety and hotspots of fear and terror. Wealth and spatial disparities correlate with governance disparities, triggering new forms of exclusion. This panel encourages urban scholars from a variety of disciplines (e.g. geography, sociology, political science, urban planning and criminology), to challenge the concept of the fragmented city with more dynamic, fluid theories of urban space, governance and everyday life, using temporality, movement and informal productions of space. Christine Hentschel Department of African Studies University of Leipzig Beethovenstr. 15 04107 Leipzig, Germany Phone +49 (0)30 21229163 Cell +49 (0)1702121392
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