Call for papers | “African Displacement Urbanism: Beyond violence, towards repair”, Johannesburg, 23-26 October 2024 — LIMITE : 21/04/2024
African Displacement Urbanism: Beyond violence, towards repair
Convenors: Dr Ayham Dalal (German University in Cairo) & Dr Huda Tayob (University of Manchester)
African urbanism is affected by multiple forms of violence (ecological, political, economic),leading to displacements on various scales (home, neighborhood, city, region).In this panel we ask: How do African urban inhabitants respond and adapt when faced with these ongoing violence(s)? What forms of urban practices emerge as a result of these mutations and transformations in urban practices beyond ‘quiete ncroachment’ (Bayat 1997)? And how do displaced persons generate creative waysof navigating African cities which extend ‘peripheral infrastructures’ (Simone 2004), and engender practices of urban repair? Also, how are these repair practices affected by hybrid modes of governance, informal/formal planning frameworks, identities and cultures, transnational networks, local/global orders, neoliberal economy and humanitarian policies? And, consequently, how do new entrants contribute to co-producing the emerging African urban realities?
In this panel, we invite innovative and interdisciplinary research that looks at the impact of displacement on African cities, foregrounding displaced populations as city-makers. Taking into consideration the intricate complexities of displacement on the ground, we are interested in contribution that advance new methods of research with a particular interest in drawing methods, critical and narrative cartography, along with critical theory approaches which may offer new insights into documenting and narrating cities through the eyes of the newcomers. Some of the themes might be responding to the following:
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Refugee housing and co-habitation
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Refugee entrepreneurship and informal economies
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Refugee settlements and trajectories
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Humanitarian and IDP camps
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Refugee agency and urban resilience
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Theorization/practices of violence and repair
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Drawing and critical cartography as method
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
To submit a session proposal please use the PDF template you can download here. A proposal for a presentation should include the following:
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Name(s), affiliation(s) and contact details of the presenter(s)
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A presentation title
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A short abstract (up to 300 characters)
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A long abstract (up to 250 words)
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Three to five keywords that capture the topic of the proposed presentation
Please upload your proposal until April 21 2024.
Please note that all paper proposals should be uploaded here.
For further information on the panel and the conference, please check here: https://www.urban-sdg-school.org/african-urbanisms/session-11
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Chargé de diffusion scientifique (21 mars 2024). Call for papers | “African Displacement Urbanism: Beyond violence, towards repair”, Johannesburg, 23-26 October 2024 — LIMITE : 21/04/2024. IISMM. Consulté le 17 mars 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/w22u