{"id":2272,"date":"2025-02-03T15:53:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T14:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.practicing.place\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2025-04-08T09:45:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T07:45:01","slug":"cfp-conference-contesting-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.practicing.place\/de\/cfp-conference-contesting-place\/","title":{"rendered":"CfP: ‚Contesting Place: Practices of (Un)Doing‘ Mid-term Conference *Deadline extended: March 10th*"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are excited to share the call for papers for the mid-term conference ‚Contesting Place: Practices of (Un)Doing‘ which will be held in Eichst\u00e4tt on June 26-27, 2025. You can read the call below or click here for the pdf.<\/a><\/p>\n

Please submit your abstract (max. 300 words) with a short bio by\u00a0March 10th<\/strong>\u00a0to: conference_pp@ku.de<\/p>\n

We look forward to reading your contributions!<\/p>\n

Contesting Place: Practices of (Un)Doing\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the context of new political confrontations, ecological challenges, and heightened social polarizations, conflicts in practices of place are intensifying. Encounters with place across the humanities and social sciences often focus on matters of identification and delineation: that is, on making and doing place. Yet, every emplacement entails displacement. Understanding places as configurations of conflict raises questions on the entanglements of (un)doing that this conference seeks to centre, by exploring de-stabilisation, dis-location, and de-identification as practicing place.<\/span><\/p>\n

Within our research training group <\/span>\u201cPracticing Place. Socio-Cultural Practices and Epistemic Configurations\u201d, we supplement the question of what is a place with the question of how it is continuously designed and produced, from a decidedly interdisciplinary perspective. Our work thus far has informed an orientation toward conflictuality and for this conference we invite proposals on contestation as situated and situating. How are places undone and thereby made in a praxis of contestation, both materially imaginatively, simultaneously and through time?<\/span><\/p>\n

Contesting established histories, epistemologies, and seemingly stable grounds involves denaturalizing \u2013 indeed, displacing \u2013 accepted modes of thought. Research in the environmental humanities, for instance, has made apparent the multiple and opposing strategies of appropriation and exploitation which politicise landscapes, such as in locally mobilised struggles against extraction, coal mining and land grabbing. From a posthumanist perspective, landscapes are gatherings of diverse ways of being in the making; they are not intentionally designed but emerge through imaginative and material entanglements. Further, sociological and cultural studies approaches to placings of the political are being rethought as publics are enclosed across privatised city squares as well as the digital agora and as geographies of accumulation are reinscribed across shifting labour markets and border regimes. Contact zones come into view in which universalizing fictions of the West are challenged by pluriversal narratives deriving from local histories.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our praxeological approach to question the how of places pushes us beyond traditional disciplinary divisions of labour and subject matter. In this spirit, our conference opens up a space for cross-disciplinary perspectives that bring into focus phenomena in danger of being marginalized and overlooked in the course of restorative political developments of the present. Facilitating cross-fertilization between the humanities and social sciences, our conference approaches place not as a singular, static entity but a multifaceted, affective dialogical, conflictual system of relations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Themes and topics for panels and presentations might include, but are not limited to<\/span><\/p>\n