CFP: Everyday Life in the Segmented City

Everyday Life in the Segmented City
Florence Conference, July 22-25, 2010

For the first time in human history, a majority of the world's population
lives in urban areas, and by 2050 more than 2/3 will live in metropolitan
regions across the globe. At the same moment metropolitan regions confront
unprecedented economic, social, and political challenges, the meanings of
everyday life are put into question because of the changing structure and
interdependence of urban economies. North American cities register the
largest number of foreign-born persons in their history, while cities in
Europe confront issues of social integration with emergent minority
populations in the suburbs and inner city neighborhoods. The rapidly growing
urban regions in China and India confront the continuing pressures of rural
to urban migration that will produce the largest urban populations in human
history. While the focus on the global city often emphasizes similarities
in the development of metropolitan regions and neo-liberal regimes, we are
interested in better understanding how individuals and groups respond to and
create dynamic change in everyday life within the ever changing urban
environment.

We invite contributions for a conference on everyday life in the segmented
city to be held in Florence this July 22-25, 2010. The presentations will
be grouped into the following subject areas:

Cinematic urbanism: Images and representation of the segmented city;
emergent symbolic economics of consumption and production; tourism and
visual consumption of the city.

Governance and planning: Multicultural cities and ethnic spaces; strategies
to govern the multicultural city; citizenship and participation in the
segmented city.

Suburbanization and the post-urban city: Suburban growth and urban sprawl;
revolt of the banlieues; social exclusion in the inner suburbs; urbanity and
urbanism in the suburban fringe

Appropriations of urban space: Emerging patterns of social exclusion and
personal security; privatization and surveillance of urban space; reclaiming
public space

The right to the city: Migration and immigration in the 21st century
metropolis; social participation in the segmented city; contested urban
spaces.

We invite submissions for papers on these and related topics. Please send
abstract of your paper or presentation by March 15, 2010 to the address
listed below.

Papers on cinematic urbanism: Dr. Lorenzo Tripodi, Berlin
(lorenzo.tripodi@googlemail.com)

Papers on governance and planning: Dr. Camilla Perrone, Università degli
Studi di Firenze (camilla.perrone@unifi.it)

Papers on Suburbanization and the post-urban city: Dr. Gabriele Manella,
Università degli Studi di Bologna (Gabriele.manella@unibo.it)

Papers on appropriations of urban space: Dr. Circe Monteiro, Universidade
Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil (monteiro.circe@gmail.com)

Papers on the right to the city: Dr. Milan Prodanovic, University of Novi
Sad (ecourban@eunet.rs) or Dr. Ray Hutchison University of Wisconsin-Green
Bay (hutchr@uwgb.edu).

Participants will be contacted with information concerning participation in
the conference by March 15th, 2010. Completed papers will be required by
May 30, 2010.


For other general inquiries concerning Everyday Life in the Segmented City,
contact Ray Hutchison, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (hutchr@uwgb.edu)

Selected papers from the conference will appear in special edited volume
titled Everyday Life in the Segmented City (a volume in the series Research
in Urban Sociology, published by Emerald Press).

Discounted hotel accommodations in Florence will be available to
participants in the conference. This conference is supported with funding
from the Del Bianco Foundation in Florence.

More information concerning conference location and lodging may be found on
the web at Everyday Life in the Segmented City. This will be updated with
additional information concerning housing and other conference details as it
becomes available.