[WSMDiscuss] Studies in movement…, The South in movement… : Fwd: Request to circulate a CFP for RC21 Delhi (Sept 2019) - Structural Violence, Urban Development, and the Southern City (Lalitha Kamath and Himanshu Burte)

Sun Dec 30 08:13:23 CET 2018

Sunday, December 30, 2018

Studies in movement…, The South in movement…

[Here is an interesting / provocative CfP (Call for Papers) from colleagues / comrades at TISS – the Tata Institute of Social Sciences - in Bombay, for a Panel at the Conference of the ISA (International Sociological Association) that is going to take place in New Delhi, India, from September 18-21 2019, that might well be of interest to some on this list :

Structural Violence, Urban Development, and the Southern City 

RC21, 18-21 September 2019, Delhi, India (https://rc21delhi2019.com <https://rc21delhi2019.com/>)

Lalitha Kamath and Himanshu Burte

            Thanks for asking, Lalitha !

            In solidarity,

JS

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> From: lalitha kamath <elkamath at gmail.com <mailto:elkamath at gmail.com>>
> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 at 15:43
> Subject: Request to circulate a CFP for RC21 Delhi (Sept 2019)
> To: Jai Sen <jai.sen2000 at gmail.com <mailto:jai.sen2000 at gmail.com>>

Dear Jai,

Warmest wishes for the New Year! 

I am writing to request you to please widely share Himanshu and my CFP for a panel (P31) on Structural Violence, Urban Development and the Southern City at the RC21 2019 in Delhi.  We are particularly keen to encourage submissions and provoke more dialogue across Southern cities. 
Best
Lalitha

RC21 CFP: P31 – Structural violence, Urban Development and the Southern City 
RC21, 18-21 September 2019, Delhi, India (https://rc21delhi2019.com <https://rc21delhi2019.com/>)
Panel synopsis
The urban is now an increasingly contested term in global debates on the Southern city. This panel focuses its inquiry at the intersection of how urbanisation or the development of urban areas is understood in terms of its relationship to structural violence. Understanding how these phenomena relate could be useful in advancing this global debate. 

In its quest to elucidate the structural violence intrinsic to urban development, the panel focuses on the 'secondary circuit' of capital or land and real estate, which is seen as increasingly central to urban spatial restructuring. Domains of land and real estate are particularly significant in Southern cities that experience a 'persistent disconnect' between capital and labour (Schindler 2017), where mega projects and infrastructure development are often prioritised over industrial development (Goodfellow 2018), and where governments often 'seek to exploit urbanisation processes in the interest of extending state power' (Shatkin 2016: 141). 

Structural violence – that reveals itself as unequal power and, consequently, as unequal life chances (Galtung 1969: 168) – can be judged from the consequences, including processual ones, of spatial restructuring experienced in different cities. The panel calls for papers that explore processes of urban spatial restructuring by exposing the interconnections between power, politics, conflict and violence. Each can be viewed as destructive but also creative with the power to reconstruct a more just city. 

Questions this panel addresses (but are not limited to): 
·      What narratives of resistance throw light on how structural violence is experienced in different Southern cities? 
·      What openings for a more just future do narratives of contestation or suffering offer? 
·      What is the link between direct violence and structural violence? Who all are implicated in structural violence? Is it an instrument or just a resulting condition? 
·      What are its consequences not only for marginalised groups but the city as a whole?

Submit your abstract
Please send your abstract of not more than 300 words to Lalitha (elkamath at gmail.com) <mailto:h.b.shin at lse.ac.uk> and Himanshu (hburte at gmail.com <mailto:miles.zhao89 at gmail.com>) and also CC'd to rc21delhi at gmail.com <mailto:rc21delhi at gmail.com> before January 20th, 2019. Please indicate the panel number (P31) and your last name in the subject line. The abstract should clearly indicate the title of the paper, research questions, theoretical contribution and connection to the panel theme. Author details about institutional affiliation must also be included.
For more details, please see the official instruction at: https://rc21delhi2019.com/index.php/call-for-abstracts/ <https://rc21delhi2019.com/index.php/call-for-abstracts/>

Questions
If you have any questions regarding this panel, please email Lalitha or Himanshu.
Contact Info: 
Convenors
Dr Lalitha Kamath, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (elkamath at gmail.com <mailto:elkamath at gmail.com>) 
Dr Himanshu Burte, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (hburte at gmail.com <mailto:hburte at gmail.com>)

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Dr Lalitha Kamath
Associate Professor
School of Habitat Studies
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Jal Malti Naoroji Campus
Deonar Farm Road, Deonar
Mumbai 400088
http://urk.tiss.edu <http://urk.tiss.edu/>

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