23/06/2023
09:30 Presential event
Religious institutions and urban politics in middle eastern cities
Venue : Room H101, first floor, 28 rue des Saints-Pères - 75007 Paris
This workshop will first take place at DPU London, Senate Place the 16th of June and then here at Sciences Po the 23th of June.
Like in many other global south contexts, rapid urbanisation in the Middle East is creating extreme inequalities and challenges, including unprecedented gaps in urban infrastructures and services, difficult access to land and housing, deep socio-spatial segregation and radical changes in urban/social identities and power relations between social groups. These processes are coupled with political instability, authoritarianism, practices of insurgency, recurrent revolts, economic crises and militarized conflicts in different parts of the region.
We propose three complementary angles to approach the religion-urban nexus as a set of contested and productive socio-political and economic processes:
• The political economy of welfare provision and inequalities in segmented cities
• Religious institution and the built environment
• The religious moral geographies of urban transformations and spaces
We aim to develop a symposium proposal/academic special issue and bring together scholars and academics who seek to understand better the activities of religious institutions within wider spatial and political dynamics that connect state, civil society, and markets in the Middle Eastern cities.
9:30 am Opening/Coffee
10:00 — 12:00 SESSION 1
Joel Stoke, PhD candidate, UCL, DPU - Settling the past: Modern Messianism in East Jerusalem
Sophie Bava (IRD), Malik Nejmi, Bernard Coyault - African house-churches in Morocco
Discussant:
Dr. Hélène Thiollet, CNRS researcher at CERI Sciences Po
Dr. Hélène Thiollet, CNRS researcher at CERI Sciences Po
12:00 — 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 — 15:00 SESSION 2
Amin Moghadam, Senior researcher, CERC Metropolitan university of Toronto - (Urban) Diversity Politics and Religious Infrastructures: Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi
Asseel al Ragam, Associate Professor of Architecture Kuwait University/Visiting Scholar Sciences Po - Endowments and transnational networks: The urban politics of Kuwait’s religious charities
Discussant:
Professor Mona Harb
Professor Mona Harb
15:00 — 17:00 SESSION 3
Publication strategy and how to move to forward
Here is the full programme in pdf format, available for download by clicking here
Scientifics coordinators: Azadeh Mashayekhi, Haim Jacobi, Hélène Thiollet, Eric Verdeil
Organisé par : CERI
