Annual RC21 Conference 2011

The struggle to belong. Dealing with diversity in 21st century urban settings
Amsterdam (The Netherlands), July 7-9 2011

Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research – Urban Studies
University of Amsterdam – The Netherlands

21. Ethnographic Interventions

Organizer: Anouk de Koning

21.1: Innovative Methods.

Chair: Anouk de Koning. Discussant: Philip Kasinitz.

Michelle Hall (Queensland University of Technology)
Imagining community through consumption: An autoethnography

John Joe Schlichtman (a) & Jason Patch (b) (a: University of San Diego b: Roger Williams University)
Gentrifier in the Mirror

Margarethe Kusenbach (University of South Florida)
Mobile Ethnographic Methods: Researching Cities, Communities and Places While Going Along

Walter Alejandro Imilan (Universidad de Chile)
Making cities by mobility. Ethnography by mobility in Santiago de Chile

21.2 Critical concepts/conceptual critiques.

Chair: Rivke Jaffe. Discussant: AbdouMaliq Simone.

Anouk de Koning (University of Amsterdam)
Social life in public: ethnographic reflections

Pauline Clech (Sciences Po, CNRS)
Importing concepts from one ‘national’ context to another: critical ethnography as safeguard.

Susanna Rosenbaum (Rutgers University)
(Re)mapping Los Angeles: marginality in/through the city

Giovanni Picker (University of Kent)
On making diversity. Ethnography and everyday nationalism in two “Gypsy neighborhoods”

RT21.1 Ethnography of Urban Inequality.

Chair: Anouk de Koning.

Gabriella Modan (a), Susanna Schaller (b) (a: Ohio State University, b: City College of New York)
“Safe and Clean”: Community Reactions to Business Improvement District (BID) Marketing in a Multi-ethnic Neighborhood

Janet Bauer (Trinity College, Hartforf, Connecticut)
Cityscape Ethnography and Identity Making: The Americanization of Muslim Refugees in Hartford

Nina Schuster (Dortmund University)
Ethnography as a Method for the Exploration of the Social Production of Space

Kennosuke Tanaka (Hosei University, Japan)
"Ethnographic Imagination and Intervention Reflexive Fieldwork of undocumented day labors sites in US"

IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES

21 December 2011
Deadline for abstract submission

10 January 2011
Notification of selected abstracts

1 March 2011
Registration open

15 May 2011
Deadline for early bird registration and for (some) hotel options

31 May 2011
Deadline for paper submission

15 June 2011
Papers online

7-9 July 2011
Conference