Workshop: Symbolic power and urban inequality: taking Bourdieu to town, 31 mai-01 juin 2012

". En mai prochain se tiendra à York une conférence organisée avec des collègues britanniques qui réunira des chercheurs du monde entier pour "Emmener Bourdieu en ville", soit tirer un bilan des mérites et des limites de la théorie bourdieusienne appliquée aux études urbaines. Dans tous les cas, il ne s'agit nullement de célébrer un maître momifié mais de mettre ses travaux au travail, en élargissant et en approfondissant les modèles qu'il a construit, mais aussi en les révisant et en les réfutant pour les dépasser lorsque c'est possible. Ainsi va la science et Bourdieu ne l'aurait pas voulu autrement. La grande force de sa pensée réside justement dans le rare alliage qu'elle opère entre la foi dans la raison et l'énergie iconoclaste avec laquelle il l'applique au monde social, et au monde scientifique en tout premier lieu" Loïc Wacquant, Propos recueillis par Nicolas Truong, Le Monde, 23.01.2012

Symbolic power and urban inequality: taking Bourdieu to town

SEMINAR AND WORKSHOP, UNIVERSITY OF YORK, MAY 31ST – JUNE 1ST  2012

Hosts:  the York European Centre for Cultural Exploration (YECCE) and the Centre for Urban Research (CURB)

Organisers: Mike Savage and Loic Wacquant

The city remains the site of entrenched social and cultural divisions, which take new and acute forms in polarising urban environments. Although the economic dimensions of these are relatively well researched, they also involve a key symbolic and moral dimension, which will be the focus of this workshop. This workshop will explore the role of field analysis in developing conceptual tools for analysing urban inequality; reflect on the role of cultural capital and symbolic violence in urban space, and contribute to our understanding of the spatialisation of urban inequality

The event will comprise two linked sections. On the first day, leading scholars from across the world will be invited to give papers as part of the preparation of a special issue of a leading urban journal. For the workshop on the second day, there will be an open call for papers from any researcher wishing to contribute a paper on any of the themes listed here. Discussants and chairs will be arranged from amongst the speakers on the seminar on the first

Seminar 31 May 2012

09.00–10.30 - Morning 1: Territorial segregation and seclusion and the spatialization of inequality in the city

1. Franck Poupeau, Centre de Sociologie Europeenne, EHESS, Paris
2. Rowland Atkinson/ Simon Parker, University of York
3. Annick Prieur, University of Aalborg, author of Mema’s House,
   Discussant: Loic Wacquant, University of Berkeley

10.30-11.00 - Refreshments
11.00-13.00 - Morning 2: Urban migration, ethnicity and precarity

1. Sebastien Chauvin, University of Amsterdam
2. Alford Young, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, author of The Mind of Marginalized Black Men
3. Philippe Bourgois, University of Pennsylvania, author of Righteous Dope fiend (to be confirmed)
   Discussant: Talja Blokland, Humboldt University, Berlin

13.00-14.00 – Lunch

14.00-15.30 - Afternoon 1: urban policy and the remaking of city space

1. Sylvie Tissot (Center for Urban Sociology, Paris), author of L'état et les Quartiers
2. Matt Desmond (Harvard Society of Fellows), author of forthcoming book on evictions in Milwaukee
3. Discussant: Michael Keith, University of Oxford

15.30-16.00 - Refreshments

16.00-15.30 - Afternoon 2: Symbolic domination, cultural capital and the urban middle classes

1. Mike Savage and Laurie Hanquinet, University of York
2. Maria-Luisa Mendez, University Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile
3. Patrick Le Gales. Sciences Po, Paris
4. Discussant: Tim Butler, Kings College, University of London

5.45: Special Public lecture, Loic Wacquant

Open to everyone venue to be confirmed

Workshop 1 June 2012

 Venue: Bowland Theatre, Berrick Saul Building

This day will consist of around 12 papers which will be selected from proposals submitted.  If you are interested to propose a paper please use the attached proposal form and send this to Josine Opmeer (Josine.Opmeer@york.ac.uk) by April 1st 2012. Abstracts should not be more than 250 words long and please indicate how your proposal links to the themes of this workshop.

A final selection of papers will be decided by April 15th, at which point the precise themes will be identified, and discussants arranged.

Location: Tree House, Berrick Saul Building, University of York

Admission: Combined ticket for 31 May and 1 June 150; Concessions combined ticket for 31 May and 1 June £75; 31 May only £100; Concessions 31 May only £50; 1 June only £100; Concessions 1 June only £50

Email: Josine.Omeer@york.ac.uk

Telephone: 01904 324738