[oberlist] GE* cfp/urb: 5th International Urban Geographies Conference of Post-Communist States

[Vladimir US]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Mikheil Svanidze <svanidze at gmail.com>
> Date: Feb 07, 2013 1:54:31 PM EET
> Subject: Conference on modernism and the post-socialist city in  
> Tbilisi
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> (Deadline is extended to February 15 I think and late submissions  
> may be possible)
>
> Session proposal for the 5th International Urban Geographies  
> Conference of Post-Communist States: CATference 2013
> Urban Research, Urban Theory and Planning Practice Tbilisi,  
> 11th-13th September 2013
> Modernism and the (post-)socialist city
>
> In this session, we want to look at the (post-)socialist city from  
> the perspective of modernism. The goal is to explore the different  
> ways in which historically socialist and post-socialist cities have  
> been conceived and represented in their relation to modernism  
> (demarcation, embracement, modification etc.).
>
> In this session, we heed to Berman’s (1983) distinction of three  
> component parts of “modernism”: the visions of urban living that  
> constitute modernism; the methods of modernization employed to  
> realize those visions; and the resultant lived modernity. This  
> division into three parts supports a more nuanced reassessment of  
> modernism and its legacies and suggests a critical position that  
> falls somewhere between ‘modernolatry’ and modernist-bashing  
> (Jencks, 2007). While accepting that many twentieth- century modern  
> dreams ended in catastrophe, Susan Buck-Morss argues that we should  
> work through the ruins of twentieth century modern dreams to  
> retrieve and reassess the modern ideas behind them (Buck-Morss,  
> 2000). Such reassessment also has to question the predominant  
> limitation of modernism to a range of Western-centric concepts alone  
> (Robinson, 2006; also Gaonkar, 2001; Mitchell, 2001) and open  
> towards the idea of different modernities.
>
> We are interested in the different ways in which modernism has been  
> articulated and negotiated in constituting the socialist city, from  
> Latin America to Eastern Europe, Africa, Central and Southeast Asia.  
> What role have different socialist conceptualizations (Soviet,  
> Maoist, Titoist, etc.) and their transformations played in this? How  
> was the Soviet understanding of the city as “the cradle of progress  
> and (…) a generative model of transformative modernity” (Alexander &  
> Buchli, 2007) implemented and which repercussions did this ambition  
> bring about? Do contemporary post-socialist cities, striving for  
> competitiveness in a globalised economy, use modernist legacies as  
> an asset – or do they, to the contrary, erase this heritage? If  
> urban life continues to be perceived as “modern”, how have the  
> articulations of modernism changed? If modernism is no longer a lens  
> onto urban life, what has come in its stead? This session is  
> therefore open to a variety of contributions, empirically or  
> theoretically focused. We particularly welcome accounts that make  
> comparative links as well as contribute to a critical understanding  
> of modernity/ies.
>
> Please send your abstracts to the organisers by 10 February 2013.
>
> Markus Kip (York University, Toronto): kip at yorku.ca Wladimir Sgibnev  
> (Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde): W_Sgibnev at ifl-leipzig.de
>

Vladimir US

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