[URBANTH-L]CFP: The New European City

Angela Jancius jancius at ohio.edu
Fri Jul 18 18:37:45 EDT 2008


APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING

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Dear List members,

As part of a new initiative set up by the Multicultural Centre Prague 
(http://www.mkc.cz) I have attached several calls for articles for the new 
European City section of the Centre (http://www.evropskemesto.cz). This 
section aims to develop our understandings of the city, not only in 
post-socialist states but beyond, focusing upon issues such as migration, 
socio-spatial exclusion, everyday life, urban identity formation and a 
number of other topics of relevance to urban and/or post-socialist scholars. 
The first 3 calls focus upon everyday life in the post-socialist city, the 
role of planning in (post)socialist cities and the notion of fluidity and 
motion in the city. If you are interested in contributing short (2,000 
words) or full articles (4,000-5,000 words) please send proposals to the 
relevant individual outlined in the specific call for articles attached. Any 
further enquiries should be directed to Ondrej Daniel (europeancity at mkc.cz) 
in the first instance.

Best wishes,

Andy Cook.

Andrew C G Cook
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS)
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/andy.cook
United Kingdom
Tel. +44 (0)191 222 7728
Fax. +44 (0)191 232 9259
Email: andy.cook at newcastle.ac.uk

For all submissions, please also provide the following:
- Brief annotation  (4 sentences maximum) and a list of keywords (5-10 most 
relevant keywords)
- Full contact details for the author along with email address as well as a 
brief biography (3 sentences maximum).
Please submit all images as separate files, in either *.jpg or *.tif format 
with reference points indicated in the text.
Authors of feature articles and case studies chosen for publication will 
receive remuneration for their contribution.



Call for articles #1

Website "European City" (www.europeancity.cz) has issued a call for articles 
on "Living in a Postsocialist City".

The concept of "postsocialist city" is a problematic one, as it seems to 
refer to several things at once. First, it associates a historical period, 
then geographical location, political and social transformations, and at the 
same time, it provides the notion of city with an adjective that goes beyond 
all of these links. On the other hand, if used reflexively the concept 
raises questions about the very specificity of "postsocialist cities", of 
lives of their inhabitants and of differences between individual cities 
situated in the former socialist block. Such questions occasionally provoke 
doubts about the appropriateness of the term itself. Some authors justify 
its use by pointing out particularities of everyday life in postsocialist 
cities and ways they are perceived and experienced by their inhabitants (as 
e.g. Alison Stenning (2005)). Forms and experiences of living in a city may 
vary significantly depending on who, when and where the person is. We would 
like to invite contributions focusing on "postsocialist cities" and at the 
same time attempting to study lives in - and experiences of - a city in 
relation to inhabitants' diverse social identities, belongings, positions 
and lifestyles, and their perceptions of historical events and geographical 
locations. Articles dealing with everyday life in postsocialist cities and 
treating questions of identities (e. g. gender, cultural, generational, 
professional, "trans-urban" and transnational, etc.) are most welcome.

Please send us an e-mail with your proposal to ferencuh at fss.muni.cz 
(Slavomíra Ferencuhová) until 30 September 2008. Final submissions should be 
sent to europeancity at mkc.cz (Ondrej Daniel) until 15 October 2008. All 
feature articles and case studies should be either in English, Czech or 
Slovak.
Original articles should be between 4,000 and 5,000 words, whilst critical 
definitions should not exceed 2,000 words. Both must be written in Microsoft 
Word and submitted as either *.doc or *.rtf files. Font: Times New Roman, 
size:12. Line spacing: 1.5. Margins: 2.5 cm top and bottom, 3 cm left and 
right. Do not insert page numbers. All references should follow the Harvard 
system consisting of in-text citations [e.g. (Castles 2003)] and a full 
bibliography (see bellow). Footnotes should be limited, but if included 
should be placed at the foot of each page. Do not forget to list 
bibliography at the end of your text. Please be consistent in your 
bibliography format, e.g. as follows:
MORGAN, P. (2004). From a Death to a View: The Hunt for the Welsh past in 
the Romantic Period. In: E. Hobsbawm and T. Ranger, ed.: The Invention of 
Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 43-101.
MUSTERD, S. (2003). "Segregation and integration: A contested relationship." 
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 29 (4): 623-641.
KERYK M. (2008): "The Church and Ukrainian Immigrants in Poland." Available 
at http://www.migrationonline.cz/e-library/?x=2081309 [visited 28.3. 2008].

Call for articles #2

Website "European City" (www.europeancity.cz) has issued a call for articles 
on "European towns between Western democracies and totalitarian systems".

The 20th century brought not only a new political structure, but also 
intense debates on the remodelling of existing towns, the restoration of 
demolished towns, and the building of new towns. Although democratic 
societies and authoritarian movements of the left and right claimed opposing 
points of view relative to on economic, social and political organization, 
this call seeks to explore their similarities and differences by focusing on 
the influence of authoritarian and democratic politics on the urban planning 
and construction of twentieth-century cities. We would like all 
contributions to raise questions about the challenge of modernism, the 
changing conceptions of citizenship in urban policy after 1917 (1945), and 
the interaction, discussion, observation, and cooperation between "east" and 
"west" architects. Possible topics draw on a range of disciplines, including 
history, ethnology, politics, sociology, and urban planning.

Please send us an e-mail with your proposal to Ana Kladnik 
(akladnik at gmail.com) until 15th September 2008. Final submissions should be 
sent to Ondrej Daniel (europeancity at mkc.cz) until 30th September 2008. All 
feature articles and case studies should be either in English, Czech or 
Slovak.
Original articles should be between 4,000 and 5,000 words, whilst critical 
deffinitions should not exceed 2,000 words. Both must be written in 
Microsoft Word and submitted as eiter *.doc or *.rtf files. Font: Times New 
Roman, size:12. Line spacing: 1.5. Margins: 2.5 cm top and bottom, 3 cm left 
and right. Do not insert page numbers. All references should follow the 
Harvard systém consisting of in-text citations [e.g. (Castles 2003)] and a 
full bibliography (see bellow). Footnotes should be limited, but if included 
should be placed at the foot of each page. Do not forget to list 
bibliography at the end of your text. Please be consistent in your 
bibliography format, e.g. as follows:
MORGAN, P. (2004). From a Death to a View: The Hunt for the Welsh past in 
the Romantic Period. In: E. Hobsbawm and T. Ranger, ed.: The Invention of 
Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 43-101.
MUSTERD, S. (2003). "Segregation and integration: A contested relationship." 
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 29 (4): 623-641.
KERYK M. (2008): "The Church and Ukrainian Immigrants in Poland." Available 
at http://www.migrationonline.cz/e-library/?x=2081309 [visited 28.3. 2008].


Call for articles #3

Website "European City" (www.europeancity.cz) has issued a call for articles 
on "Motion in the City".

Motion and process modify the urban environment and provide fascinating 
scope for those interested in the field of urban studies. Both repeated and 
routine motion are important in understanding the functioning principles 
behind single urban localities and also whole metropolitan regions. 
Migration, commuting, financial flows and the flux of ideas. All these 
motions are the beats of the city and in certain sense may be seen as the 
substance of the urban setting. Motion can be evaluated from the 
perspectives of different academic fields; many questions about the 
contemporary development of the city reveal themselves. How has urban motion 
changed over the last decades? What are the effects of technological 
innovation, in the field of transport and the transfer of information, on 
the urban milieu? What is the progress of intra-urban, internal and 
international migration into cities?  How do the different parts of a city 
differ in terms of the rhythms and everyday motions of its population?

Please send us an e-mail with your proposal to slamak at natur.cuni.cz (Martin 
Ourednícek) until 30th August 2008. Final submissions should be sent to 
europeancity at mkc.cz (Ondrej Daniel) until 15th September 2008. All feature 
articles and case studies should be either in English, Czech or Slovak.
Original articles should be between 4,000 and 5,000 words, whilst critical 
definitions should not exceed 2,000 words. Both must be written in Microsoft 
Word and submitted as either *.doc or *.rtf files. Font: Times New Roman, 
size:12. Line spacing: 1.5. Margins: 2.5 cm top and bottom, 3 cm left and 
right. Do not insert page numbers. All references should follow the Harvard 
system consisting of in-text citations [e.g. (Castles 2003)] and a full 
bibliography (see bellow). Footnotes should be limited, but if included 
should be placed at the foot of each page. Do not forget to list 
bibliography at the end of your text. Please be consistent in your 
bibliography format, e.g. as follows:
MORGAN, P. (2004). From a Death to a View: The Hunt for the Welsh past in 
the Romantic Period. In: E. Hobsbawm and T. Ranger, ed.: The Invention of 
Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 43-101.
MUSTERD, S. (2003). "Segregation and integration: A contested relationship." 
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 29 (4): 623-641.
KERYK M. (2008): "The Church and Ukrainian Immigrants in Poland." Available 
at http://www.migrationonline.cz/e-library/?x=2081309 [visited 28.3. 2008]. 




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