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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Demystifying the Urban: Borderlands of Canada and
India,
> H-ASIA
> August 31, 2011
>
> Call for paperss "Demystifying the Urban: Borderlands of Canada and
> India", Kolkata, February 1-3, 2012
> India
>
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> "Demystifying the Urban: Borderlands of Canada and India"
>
> Location: India
>
> Conference Date: 2012-02-01
> Date Submitted: 2011-08-29
> Announcement ID: 187489
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
> Centre for Canadian Studies
> Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
>
> International Conference on Canadian Studies February 1-3, 2012
>
> "Demystifying the Urban: Borderlands of Canada and India"
>
> With the various advances of new urban sociologies, the inadequacies of
> already existing models to track the production of the urban space have
> been felt all across the globe. This approach of redefining or
> demystifying the urban space as a social category comes from the inherent
> inadequacies of already existing economic, political, sociological and
> semiotic models. More empirical work is required to understand the
> production of the urban space and other forms of spatial negotiations
> associated with it. We have to remember that this urban space is also the
> settlement space/zone. It is an important territory of emerging social
> movements, community relations/liaisons.
>
> The Urban cannot be studied as a single discreet metropolitan development
> in a particular national setting. We have to look at it from a larger
> global setting in order to identify the ideologies of Colonialism to late
> Liberalism behind the social production of this urban space. Thus the
> study of this urban space has to be multidisciplinary. We need a
> comparative methodology to understand the complexity of the space. It is
> important to remember that the urban is continuously being defined in
> relation to what is not urban.
>
> Over a few decades, Canada and India, as geo-political identities
> experienced the growth and development of urban spaces and the discontent
> associated with it. Be it Ontario or Gujarat, the Aboriginal people in
> both the countries have raised their voice against illegal, illicit
> development projects and land acquisitions. Both Canada and India has
> experienced record migration to these urban spaces on an international and
> national level. The complex issues of labour mobilization and manhandling
> of human resource is closely associated with urbanization. Various groups
> (indigenous, immigrants, migrants, ethnic minorities, sexual minorities,
> religious minorities,) in both the countries have performed their
> discontent to reclaim their identities which have been thwarted in these
> promised lands. If we consider these urban spaces as negotiations of
> neocolonial paradigms, then one cannot ignore the various forms of
> performing discontent from several communities in these emerging
> territories.
>
> The conference will try to map these performing discontents as pedagogic
> shifts, to be more specific, paradigmatic shifts in the global context.
> The idea is to relocate pedagogy outside the imperial framework of
> pedagogic models. In the Global context, the situation of the Aboriginal
> People in Canada and India (how it was and how it is perceived today
> within the academia and other social institutions ) can serve as an
> example in both Canada and India to substantiate the claim of spatial
> negotiation in the context of increasing visibility of various minority
> groups in the urban space. Immigration and International Labour
> mobilization/politics can be cited as another example in this context.
> Papers are invited in all areas relating to the general theme of the
> conference. We have identified certain areas and some of them are listed
> below:
>
> Urban Sociology :Metropolis, Cities, Towns and Ruralis, Architecture The
> Urban Space and Indigenous Alterities
> Multiculturalism, citizenship, Identity and Nation
> Community , the Individual, Alternative sexualities
> International Laws, Labour Mobilisation and policy management
> Constitution, Policies and Human rights
> Politics of integration/disintegration, inclusion/exclusion Diversity,
> ethnicity, tolerance
> Literature, Films, Cultural Texts
> Performance Studies
> The New Media (Blog/Online journals/ Online networks/ Advertisements)
> Science and Technology, Environmental Issues
>
> The title and a brief abstract (200-300 words) of the proposed paper may
> be sent as an email attachment (only Microsoft Word Document, saved in a
> compatible mode) by 31st October, 2011 to
> canadacentreju@gmail.com
>
> Contact Persons:
> Conference Coordinator: Professor Suchorita Chattopadhyay,
> Coordinator, Centre for Canadian Studies, Department of Comparative
> Literature, Jadavpur University.
>
> Organizing Committee:
> Dr. Debashree Dattaray (Assistant Professor)
> debashreedattaray@gmail.com
> Sm. Swagata Bhattacharya (Senior Research Fellow)
> sbhat_22@yahoo.co.in
> Sri Dheeman Bhattacharyya (Senior Research Fellow)
> dheemanbhattacharyya@gmail.com
>
> Mailing Address: Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur
> University, Kolkata-700032, India.
> Telephone: 033-2414-6690 (2152 Extn.)
>
>
> Conference Coordinator: Professor Suchorita Chattopadhyay, Coordinator,
> Centre for Canadian Studies, Department of Comparative Literature,
> Jadavpur University.
>
> Organizing Committee:
> Dr. Debashree Dattaray (Assistant Professor) debashreedattaray@gmail.com
> Sm. Swagata Bhattacharya (Senior Research Fellow) sbhat_22@yahoo.co.in
> Sri Dheeman Bhattacharyya (Senior Research Fellow)
> dheemanbhattacharyya@gmail.com
>
> Mailing Address: Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur
> University, Kolkata-700032, India.
> Telephone: 033-2414-6690 (2152 Extn.)
> Email: canadacentreju@gmail.com
>
>
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