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| International Conference on "The Empowerment of Civil Society in Urban Policies" |
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| The UNESCO Chair on ‘Urban Policies and Citizenship’ (University of Lyon) organizes a three-day conference on "The empowerment of civil society in urban policies". It will be held on Porquerolles Island (France), from 31 October to 3 November 2009. |
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 Empowerment aims at redefining the content of urban politics and policies by challenging the asymmetry of resources and forms of legitimacy between the civil society and the state.
It has become obvious that empowerment is part of a general tendency affecting contemporary States and the ways polity and politics are organized. Instead of asymmetric relations between, on the one hand, the state and the society, and, on the other hand, between social groups, empowerment is based on mobilization of social groups considered as deprived and marginalized.
Since empowerment seems, theoretically, to be a matrix of profound changes within contemporary States, the conference seeks to analyze and to compare the institutionalization of empowerment and its impact on diverse political, cultural, economic and institutional contexts.
It will address in particular two key issues that are currently at the core of the transformations mentioned above:- the political and economical conditions of the institutionalization of empowerment in urban policies for the last 20 years, and;
- the uses of empowerment on and by social groups within cities.
Some grants will be available to cover accepted applicants' attendance and travel costs.
The UNESCO Chair on ‘Urban Policies and Citizenship’ (University of Lyon) is related to the joint UNESCO/UN-Habitat project ‘Urban Policies and the Right to the City: Rights, responsibilities and citizenship’. A publication of Alison Brown and Annali Kristiansen recently contributed to this project as well (see related links below).
More on the conference …
Contacts:- Bernard Jouve, Chairholder UNESCO Chair on ‘Urban Policies and Citizenship’, University of Lyon, France, Bernard.JOUVE@entpe.fr
- Brigitte Colin, Programme Specialist ‘Architecture and the City’, UNESCO, b.colin@unesco.org
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UNESCO |
| Publication Date |
01-10-2009 |
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UNESCO |
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