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22. - 23.09.09Ort
Tbilisi State University, Institute for Archaeology and Ethnology, GeorgiaDownloads (PDF)
Urban Spaces: Caucasian Places. Transformations in Capital Cities.
This workshop is focused on the studies of urban rapid transformations in three South Caucasian capital cities by considering continuities and discontinuities in the process of reconfiguration of public spaces, representations and city images after the post-socialist change. This workshop aims to start a comparative discussion on research approaches of urban cultures in these cities as national and transnational cities from the anthropological perspective, to encompass different ways of imagining and representing three cities within the nation, in the Caucasian region and in the global context. After economic decline and political uncertainty postsocialist capitals once again build a space for celebrating new national regimes. Some cities undergo a remarkable process of city reconstruction and the emergence of new social groups that create new city symbols. At the same time urban landscapes in this area present a merge of declining Soviet planed infrastructure and of a new body of confusing architecture and sacred places that are not necessarily associated with the revitalization of the urban life attractive for both local and international inhabitants.
The main questions of the workshops are: How cities with the status of postcolonial and socialist capitals laying on the margins of Europe and Asia reshape their identity and place in the world area which is perceived as a space of violence, conflict and closure? To what extent the cosmopolitan and multicultural past is remembered or erased in the more monocultural present? How urban changes (nationalization, globalization, social segregation, privatization and migration) are lived symbolically and materially, how they are perceived and contested by different social groups in a capital city under transition? How these changes are reflected in public spaces and imaginative maps of the city and its citizens? What kind of new sacred spaces and practices of branding places are emerging in postsocialist cities? What are the similarities and differences in the reconstruction of urban spaces in the postsocialist capital cities and in the pathways of urban revitalization in the context of new geopolitical meaning of this area? Possible areas of contributions include four panels: public and sacred places, city symbols, new actors and practices, approaches and methods in the studies of postsocialist urban spaces.
For more information contact: Tsypylma Darieva, email: tsypylma.darieva@staff.hu-berlin.de
Madlen Pilz, email: madlen.pilz@staff.hu-berlin.de
