The fight against disenfranchisement: Emerging cultures of protest in the city
IGU Cologne 2012, Topic: Risks & Conflicts, August 26th-30th 2012, Cologne, Germany
_As the logics and dynamics of capitalism are transforming urban space,
cities constitute arenas of conflicts and social contestation. Conflicts
as social phenomena draw the attention to protests that emerge from
power differentials in the city. Being situated within the realm of
civil society, these protests against the transformation of urban space
were relatively strong in the 1970s and 80s. During the past few years
urban conflicts and protests re-occurred in many cities, caused by
re-investments into the built-environment, forced by the economic
crisis.
This session suggests a comparative perspective on protest cultures and urban conflicts. Drawing on a series of comparative (case) studies, we would like to better understand the causes of conflicts, the motivations and practices to articulate protest and strategies to manage conflicts within different cultural and political contexts.
We encourage submissions relating but not limited to the following topics:
- Urban protest and conflict theories
- Local democracy and urban governance
- Gentrification and “right to the city”-movements
- Urban conflicts and migration
- Urban citizenship and processes of disenfranchisement
- Methodological aspects of researching conflicts and protests
Please submit your abstract of max 3.000 characters online on https://igc2012.org until December 15th.
Luis del Romero, University of Valencia ( luis.romero@uv.es)
Samuel Mössner, University of Freiburg (samuel.moessner@geographie.uni-freiburg.de)
This session suggests a comparative perspective on protest cultures and urban conflicts. Drawing on a series of comparative (case) studies, we would like to better understand the causes of conflicts, the motivations and practices to articulate protest and strategies to manage conflicts within different cultural and political contexts.
We encourage submissions relating but not limited to the following topics:
- Urban protest and conflict theories
- Local democracy and urban governance
- Gentrification and “right to the city”-movements
- Urban conflicts and migration
- Urban citizenship and processes of disenfranchisement
- Methodological aspects of researching conflicts and protests
Please submit your abstract of max 3.000 characters online on https://igc2012.org until December 15th.
Luis del Romero, University of Valencia ( luis.romero@uv.es)
Samuel Mössner, University of Freiburg (samuel.moessner@geographie.uni-freiburg.de)