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>bordes
>Grupo de Estudios Alternativos
>P.O. Box 21971
>San Juan, Puerto Rico, 09931
>
>Call For Papers
>
>City, Citizens, Citizenship in the Globalized Society
>
>The journal bordes invites all those interested to participate in a
>symposium to discuss the themes of city, citizen and citizenship in
>globalized society and the questions which emerge from the re-definition of
>politics and the political within the context of the transformations that
>have occurred in the last quarter of the 20th century. While by no means
>attempting to be exhaustive, some of the easily identifiable questions
>include: To what extent is it pertinent to reflect on the idea of
>citizenship(s) as signaling the possibility of a democratic coexistence of
>the diverse in the midst of the crises provoked by the new outbreaks of
>nationalist, religious and other fundamentalism(s)? Up to what point are
>citizens enabled to reassume agency, not only by political transformations,
>but also techno-cultures, which neither the State or other political bodies
>appear to be able to account for? How can we think about the city in the
>midst of the trans-localizations of space and the hyper-acceleration of
>social time? What does living in the city mean today? Also, what does it
>mean to be a citizen, and to what does the idea of citizenship speak? And
>what challenges and insights do such intellectual currents as neomarxism,
>poststructuralism, deconstruction and postmodernism offer for advancing
>thought on these issues?
>bordes and the Alternative Studies Group will accept papers or
presentations
>of diverse formats which theorize, document or illustrate these themes and
>related ones, which attempt to raise the level of debate beyond where
>conventional discourses and theorizing have permitted.
>
>The symposium will take place on April 27, 28 & 29 of 2000
>University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
>Polytechnic University, School of Architecture, Hato Rey
>
>
>We invite those interested in participating to submit proposals for papers
>and presentations on these and related themes. Proposals should include the
>following information:
>-Title of paper or presentation
>-An abstract (not to exceed 200 Words)
>-Name, mailing address, telephone and e-mail
>
>The deadline for submitting proposals is December 15, 1999.
>Papers are due on March 15, 2000
>Proposals can be sent to:
>bordes/GEA, P.O. Box 21971, San Juan Puerto Rico 00931
>Or
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