CFP (ISA Forum, Vienna, July 2016): Racial Urbanities: A Global Cartography

CFP:  ISA  Forum    of  Sociology  –  Vienna.  July  10-­‐14,  2016     Abstracts  Submission  -­‐  https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2016/cfp.cgi       Deadline:  September  30,  22015 016       RC05  session     Racial  Urbanities:  A  Global  Cartography         Organizers:       Karim  Murji  (Open  University)   Giovanni  Picker  (European  University  Viadrina)     Manuela  Boatca  (Free  University  Berlin)         Critical  race  scholarship  has  long  been  looking  at  specific  contexts  from  a  global  comparative   perspective.   These   studies   mainly   focused   on   nation-­‐states   and   broader   supranational   polities,   detecting   converging   and   diverging   trends   and   configurations   of   racial   beliefs,   discourses,   policies   and   practices.   Concomitantly,   critical   race   scholarship   is   punctuated   by   brilliant   studies   focusing   on   urban   settings,   uncovering   ethnographically   the   making   and   unmaking  of  localised  racial  partitioning  and  hierarchies.  The  lack  of  a  global  perspective  on   the  relations  between  race  and  the  city  becomes  noteworthy  against  the  background  of  urban   theory’s  developments  over  the  last  thirty  years,  in  which  economic  globalisation  and  social   closure  are  among  the  most  debated  issues.  The  session  aims  to  address  this  lack,  by  bringing   together  critical  race  scholars  and  critical  urban  scholars  in  a  mutually  empowering  dialogue   toward   exploring   a   global   cartography   of   racial   urbanities.   We   ask   –   How   can   the   relationships   between   race   and   the   urban   be   addressed   from   a   global   perspective?   How   do   race,   racialism   and   racism   articulate   with/in   the   city,   and   contribute   to   shape   urban   (infra)structures   and   power   dynamics?   How   can   urban   comparison   contribute   to   shed   light   on  a  comparative  cartography  of  race,  and  by  extension  racism,  globally?  Reversely,  how  can   comparative   studies   on   race   and   racism   in   the   city   contribute   to   a   better   understanding   of   urbanities   globally?   We   are   interested   in   both   empirical   and   theoretical   papers   addressing   these  and  related  questions.