[Urbanstudy] Call for Papers on Mass Transit

[Rashmi Sadana]

Ethnographies of Mass Transportation in a Globalized World
Call for workshop and papers - May 2016
(please circulate )

As urban populations the world over are growing, more and more cities are building or extending subways, tramways and bus lines, creating new transport landscapes, and connecting and sectioning off new kinds of territories. Urban dwellers meanwhile are being segregated and mixed in previously unknown ways. This "Call for Papers" seeks to gather scholars who are researching and writing about mass transit systems (especially subways/metros, bus/Bus Rapid Transit, light rail, trams) as a way to conceptualize "the urban" and critically explore issues such as development, sustainability, mobility, urban design, public space, technology, and infrastructure, for a one-day workshop to be held at New York University in May 2016. The purpose of the workshop is to discuss and critique pre-circulated papers, which will then be revised for an edited volume aimed at guiding further research on this global phenomenon. We seek empirical work on mass transit, especially ethnographic (anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, design/architecture, STS, etc.) and historical (micro or macro) approaches and welcome interdisciplinary perspectives. We hope to have papers from as many geographic areas as possible.

Abstracts are due December 15, 2015 and acceptance notices will be sent out by January 20, 2016. 
 
The workshop is organized by Stéphane Tonnelat (Associate Research Faculty at CNRS and NYU) and Rashmi Sadana (Assistant Professor, George Mason University) and will be held at the Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Science (CIRHUS) at NYU.
Contact: 
Stéphane Tonnelat:  <mailto:st2451 at nyu.edu>st2451 at nyu.edu <mailto:st2451 at nyu.edu>
Rashmi Sadana: rsadana at gmu.edu <mailto:rsadana at gmu.edu>

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Stéphane Tonnelat
Editor, metropolitics.org <http://metropolitics.org/>
Research fellow
CNRS NYU CIRHUS
4 Washington Square North
NY, NY 10003
st2451 at nyu.edu <mailto:st2451 at nyu.edu>




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