Seeing Like a City / Seeing the City Through
Abstract
Aims of the conference
• To bring together scholars from all over the world to develop innovative perspectives on the theme of ‚Seeing Like a City / Seeing the City Through’ for sociologically addressing the ‘City’ as a set of local state institutions that categorises and intervenes in the urban and shapes citizenship and belonging while practices and logics outside of the view of the state defy those standards and categories. This should result in a series of publications (edited collections, special issues in journals) as well as in international cooperation for new research initiatives between participants.
• To strengthen the network of urban scholars within the context of the Research Network 37 of the European Sociological Association and to involve junior scholars in this network.
• To strengthen the profile of excellence of Humboldt University, to strengthen the collaboration between universities within Berlin, and to generate and enhance visibility and networks of German urban scholars.
• To theoretically and empirically advance our understanding of the tension between ‚Seeing Like a City’ and ‘Seeing the City Through’ within the framework of comparative urbanism, and to contribute to the current debates on these in urban sociology and urban studies more generally.
Principal investigators
Financer
DFG other programmes
Duration of project
Start date: 06/2022
End date: 07/2023
