CFP – ISA/RC21 in Rabat, 6-11th July 2025 – Deadline Oct 15th

With AbdouMaliq Simone we are organising a panel at the forthcoming ISA Sociology-RC21 conference in Rabat, Morocco.

Below you can find the call for paper. Abstract submission will close on October, 15th 2024 and it is done directly on the ISA website, at this page: https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/forum/rabat-2025/5th-isa-forum-call-for-abstracts

Geographies Beyond Inhabitation. Urban grounds, housing struggles, and the everyday political

Michele Lancione, Polytechnic University of Turin (michele.lancione@polito.it)
AbdouMaliq Simone, University of Sheffield (a.t.simone@sheffield.ac.uk)

In light of extended capacities to enclose, surveille, pre-empt, and capitalise upon the improbable, what constitute viable performances of generativity beyond production? In light of the relegation of the marginalised, impoverished, and racialised to both objects of extraction and purveyors of liminality, how is inhabitation re-imagined from those spaces where only the uninhabitable seems to be? Taken together, what does it mean to think beyond inhabitation, in a world where every inch of the possible seems to have been colonised by the extractive and expulsive makings of contemporary racial capitalism?

In this session we invite contributions exploring the unannounced propositional politics of urban habitation. We want to engage with works those focus is on specific manoeuvres through which different geographies and peoples navigate the tensions between translocal and embodied dispossessive processes, enduring valuations imposed by the colonial, the gendered/heteronormative and the racial. We are particularly interested in situated works approaching the themes of the session using ethnographic, geneaological, speculative, visual and geopoetics methods.

Our goal is to incite a conversation on thinking beyond current modes of inhabiting our contemporary global urban world by focusing on three themes:

· Inhabitation from the standpoint of every day of city life. What does it mean to be alive and to be ‘human’ in today’s urban worlds?

· Inhabitation from the gateway of housing precarity and its struggles. What does housing do at the intersections of violent forms for dispossession related to lands and to bodies, financialised multi-scalar assemblages, heteronormative forms of homing, criminalisation of houselessness and bordering practices?

· Inhabitation as an emancipatory proposition from the ground of its struggle. How can one give room to forms of liberations that are not typically conceived to be ‘political struggle’ in Western ‘radical’ canons?

Abstract submission will close on Octtober, 15th 2024 and it is done directly on the ISA website, at this page: https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/forum/rabat-2025/5th-isa-forum-call-for-abstracts

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