[Themaintainers] CfP: Materiality and Maintenance: Neglected but Essential Aspects of Urban Environments

Jérôme Denis jerome.denis at mines-paristech.fr
Tue Oct 10 10:16:54 EDT 2017


Dear colleagues, dear friends,

please find below a call for papers from Karen Frank and Tim Edensor entitled “Materiality and Maintenance: Neglected but Essential Aspects of Urban Environments”, which may be of your interest.

Best wishes

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Jérôme Denis
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> Call for Papers:
> American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, 10-14 April 2018, New Orleans.
>  
> Session Organizers: 
> Karen Frank (New Jersey Institute of Technology​
> Tim Edensor (Manchester Metropolitan University)
> 
> 
> Materiality and Maintenance: Neglected but Essential Aspects of Urban Environments
>  
> The kinds of structures and materials used to create built environments increasingly reveal problems of sustainability and resilience in the face of climate change and related disasters. In addition, in the context of austerity and funding reduction, the lack of ongoing maintenance of infrastructure in the US and elsewhere has reached emergency levels, disrupting and threatening people’s lives on a daily basis.  Such circumstances demonstrate the value of considering the topics of materiality and maintenance of urban environments from both conceptual and empirical perspectives, with a contemporary or historical focus. The organizers invite submissions that address: diverse regimes for repair and maintenance; changing or contested technologies deployed to restore material order; material affordances that building materials offer and their resistance or susceptibility to decay; suspension of certain procedures of maintenance and initiation of others that indicate the valuing and devaluing of places, structures and uses; and distinct place- or time-based techniques that take into account local, non-human and human agencies of decay and disrepair.​
> 
> Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Karen Frank (karen.a.franck at njit.edu <mailto:karen.a.franck at njit.edu>) and / or Tim Edensor (t.edensor at mmu.ac.uk <mailto:t.edensor at mmu.ac.uk>) by the 16
> October. We will confirm acceptance by the 18 October and we expect you to register and submit your abstract on the AAG website by the 25 October.​
> 
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