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Looking at Urban Centres As Sites of Power. Part I
RC21 Regional and Urban Development
Language: English
Cities do not merely provide a background for social action but they are, rather, the most complex form of human interdependence, as well as an environment consisting of specific infrastructuring processes. Nonetheless, these often occur in exclusionary forms, which are more or less visible, and invite researchers to explore how social actors and the spaces are in constant interaction with each other and, also, how visual experiences are mediated by the “discursive contexts in which they appear" (Jay 2002).
With the focus on different elements of urban landscape and infrastructure, this session invites papers that explore the politics of urban space, emerging and mutating socio-spatial relations behind the “spectacle” of urbanism. The papers are invited to explore social, material and political metamorphoses in cities around the globe. Specifically, we are interested in papers conceptualizing the infrastructuring processes in the city, how they can be explored from the visual perspective and how visual perspective can elucidate the complex knowledge-power relations behind them.
This session consists of max 5 oral presentations and the intention is to publish them. To this end full versions of accepted papers or extended abstracts (1000-2000 words with references) must be submitted by 1 June 2018 to session organizers.
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