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Nationalism and the City
Friday, 10 February 2012 to Saturday, 11 February 2012Location: CRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge
Conference Conveners
Christopher Moffat (Gonville & Caius/History)Conference Summary
Blame it, perhaps, on a hangover from
nationalism’s early mingling with European romantics, but the primacy of ‘the
rural’ in nationalist imaginaries remains well established, recurring in
political and cultural discourse as the fundamental
site of national authenticity, tradition and identity. This tendency has
resulted in a distortion of nationalism’s crucial yet ambivalent relationship
with the pastoral inverse – the smoky, crowded, dynamic space of ‘the urban’ –
and despite the usual eagerness of scholars to dismantle any and all ‘myths’
propagated by nationalist paradigms, very little has been done to theorize this
pivotal interplay between nationalism and the city.
How are we to understand the role of cities
in nationalism’s pasts, presents and futures?
The urban landscape is at once intensely
local and profoundly global, while commonly appropriated (internally or
externally) as a compelling (though never uncontested) representation of ‘the
national whole’. It was through cities that intellectuals traded early ideas of
‘the nation’, and it is in cities that national identities have been pushed to
their breaking points. The urban has helped to shape the national and this
relation also works in reverse: cities can be sites for national consolidation
and commemoration, but also facilitate the emergence of ‘spaces of alterity’
and zones of conflict.
This conference will move to ‘re-centre’
the urban in theories of nations and nationalism, facilitating a dialogue
across disciplines to address the many layers of what has been described as
‘the urban palimpsest’. A special emphasis will be placed on integrating the
insights of those focused on dynamics in the city and those addressing the
broader phenomenon of nationalism, to enliven debates on space, identity, and
politics and to illuminate important convergences and contradictions,
conjunctures and disjunctures.
The task for researchers is as follows: how
are we to conceptualize the role of cities/urban environments in the
origins/spread/perpetuation/undermining of nations and nationalism?
The continuities and variations in urban
forms across continents necessitates a global focus, and participants are
encouraged to consider the transnational dimension of both ‘the urban’ and ‘the
nation’ as sociological phenomena and cognitive categories.
Suggested focal points include: - Urbanization/modernization and the conditions of nationalism’s emergence
- Urban intellectual networks and the global diffusion of nationalism
- Cities as battle-space and/or as sites for mobilization
- National unity and the urban/rural ‘divide’
- The city as metaphor for nation
- Globalizing cities, ‘post-nationalism’, and notions of urban reclamation
- Cosmopolitanism, nationalism, and layers of belonging
- Multiculturalism, heterogeneity and the urban
- Disintegration, dystopia and ‘spaces of alterity’
Call for Papers
Paper proposals for this conference are now being accepted and will be
considered if submitted before the deadline of 1 October 2011. Please send
an abstract of no more than 250 words to nationalismandthecity@gmail.com.
Proposals creatively addressing aspects of the above conference summary are most welcome. Applicants are especially encouraged to engage with the existing theoretical literature on nations, nationalism and the city.
Proposals creatively addressing aspects of the above conference summary are most welcome. Applicants are especially encouraged to engage with the existing theoretical literature on nations, nationalism and the city.
Accommodation for non-paper giving delegates
We are unable to arrange accommodation, however, the
following websites may be of help.
NB.
CRASSH is not able to help with the booking
of accommodation.
Sponsors
The conveners are grateful for the support of The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH).
Administrative assistance: Helga Brandt (Conference Programme Manager, CRASSH)
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