[Urbanstudy] CFP

[Jonathan Anjaria]

> Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:24:21 -0800
> From: Nima Bassiri <bassiri at berkeley.edu>
> To: CFP at english.upenn.edu
> Subject: CFP: Qui Parle: City and Political Violence (12/15/06; 
> journal issue)
> Sender: owner-cfp at lists.sas.upenn.edu
>
> The journal /qui parle/ is seeking submissions for a special dossier,
> Urban Intercessions: The City as Limit Politics.The dossier will
> focus on how we could imagine the effects and conditions of violence or
> political force ó whether it be legal, racial, geographic, or gendered,
> and whether the force be oppressive or emancipatory ó within the
> specific locality of a metropolitan context, one which is somehow
> inflected by local or particular concerns and yet reflects a global,
> international, or, at the very least, extra-metropolitan politics. What
> role does the city modern or not have in current inter/national
> political formations? How does it function as a site of violence or
> resistance? Is it in fact merely a site, and thus passive ó a place
> where events simply transpire? Or does it offer specific configurations
> according to which politics become legible and/or possible? And if so,
> how can these configurations be illuminated? These questions are only
> suggestive; general examinations on immigration, urban development,
> kinship, political violence, religion and secularity, and the problem 
> of
> subjectivation (especially as it concerns the question of Western 
> versus
> non-Western subject formations) would be extremely relevant, and
> articles that deal with the literary and aesthetic aspects of some of
> these problems would also be very welcome. Submissions should be
> standard article length, 20-25 pages, double spaced. Please format
> essays in accordance to the Chicago Manual of Style. Submission can be
> sent electronically to quiparle at berkeley.edu quiparle at berkeley.edu, or
> in hard copy to the address below. Deadline for submission: December 15
>
> Qui Parle
>
> The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities
>
> 220 Stephens Hall, #2340
>
> University of California
>
> Berkeley CA 94720-2340