4-0215 CRITICAL ANTHROPOLOGIES OF THE URBAN: TRACES OF THE PAST AND THE REMAKING OF DIFFERENCE IN AN URBANIZING WORLD

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Friday, November 18, 2011: 08:00-11:45

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Those involved in mentoring activities, Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Jeffry Maskovsky (Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY) and Setha M Low (CUNY)

Chairs: Jeffry Maskovsky (Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY)

Discussants: Ida S Susser (Hunter College) and Deborah Pellow (Syracuse University)

08:00

Fractured Urbanism, Spatial Inscription and Violence On the Margins of the Post-Apartheid City

Leslie John Bank (University of Fort Hare)

08:15

Studying up In the City: Class, Imaginary, Governance

Julian B Brash (Montclair State University)

08:30

The Body and the City Project: Black Women and the Performance of Space In Newark

Aimee M Cox (Fordham University)

08:45

GREEN IS the NEW BLACK: OLD SCHO0L Toxics and ENVIRONMENTAL Gentrification

Melissa A Checker (Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center)

09:00

Chinese Contributions to the Development of Urban Africa: A Case Study of Dakar, Senegal

Suzanne Scheld (CSUN)

09:15

Discussant

Ida S Susser (Hunter College)

09:30

Discussion

09:45

Break

10:00

Rotten Homes: Citizenly Compulsion In Chicago

Catherine Fennell (Columbia University)

10:15

Biosocial Urbanism

Jeffry Maskovsky (Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY)

10:30

A Domesticated Periphery: Homeownership and Marginality In Santiago, Chile

Edward Murphy (MSU)

10:45

Small Cities: Traces, Disappearances, and Hauntings In Appalachian Ohio

Marina Peterson (Ohio University)

11:00

Changing the Arab Public Sphere: Women and the Art Scene In Amman Jordan

Aseel Sawalha (Fordham University)

11:15

Discussant

Deborah Pellow (Syracuse University)

11:30

Discussion

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