ISA - International Sociological Association XVIII World Congress - Facing an unequal world. Challenges for global sociology Yokohama (Japan), July 14-19, 2014. Session: “Informality and Spatial Confinement across the Global Order: Everyday and Policy Perspective”. At the turn of the twenty-first century, informality and confinement are perhaps the most striking features of the everyday lives of the urban poor across the globe. This session aims to explore the interplay between informality and confinement at both the macrolevel of neoliberal processes, modern bureaucracies, and forms of control and the microlevel of everyday emotions, moralities, and practices. We seek papers that will help us bring informality and confinement within the same analytic framework thus allowing a better understanding of how these two features of life at the urban margins – in their spatial logics and effects – interact with one another in the policy arena as well as on the ground. Our goal is to generate scholarly debates on the interactions between informality and confinement in everyday life and in the policy arena: How and to what extent informal practices belong to ruling agencies and to the experience of people inhabiting spaces of confinement such as refugee camps, camps or villages for Roma/Travellers, centers for undocumented migrants, squatter settlements, and ghettos? Under what conditions and through which ways do state and other ruling agencies accept, reward, suppress, and punish informal practices from below? Deadline: September 30, 2013. Submission online at https://isaconf.confex/isaconf/wc2014/cfp.cgi Organizers: Silvia Pasquetti, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, [email protected] and Giovanni Picker, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, [email protected]
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