Metropolitan Desires Cultural Reconfigurations of the European City Space, Manchester, 8-9 September 2009 08-09-2009 Introduction Balanced between physicalities and imaginaries, the city remains a
privileged space for exploring the nature of contemporary social networks. The
city itself is increasingly difficult to define, its limits stretching beyond
any clear, tactile frontier as it incorporates ever-wider flows and trajectories
deterritorialising itself. For many, however, the city is a space that gathers
together fixed delimitations, boundaries, perimeters and no-go-out areas: a city
territorialised. Reassessing, exploring and comparing culture and cultural
reconfigurations of the European city, therefore, the aim of this
interdisciplinary, two-day conference is to probe the composition of these
synchronous cities, asking whether the city offers possibilities for a more
democratic space or whether projects for a desired cosmopolis can only founder
in the realities of the metropolis.
Description
Through the prism of culture (including, but by no means limited to,
literature, film, music, art, photography, dance) the conference aims to address
the following questions:
We invite proposals for papers that address some or any of the above
questions, as well as those that challenge these issues and/or terminologies.
Though the focus of this conference is Europe and European cities, we
encourage submissions that illustrate how alternative urban imaginaries interact
with(in) the European city or even the way that European urban imaginaries are
themselves disrupted in other contexts.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
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