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Program
10:00        

Welcome & Coffee at Cafe Haag, Vor dem Haagtor 1, Tübingen
Opening words: Bani Gill (University of Tübingen / Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
10:30-12:30    

Filming the City (Cafe Haag Vor dem Haagtor 1, Tübingen)
Screening of ethnographic film “Survey City”, a film about the mysterious life of documents in a Delhi informal settlement, with film director and anthropologist Sanjay Srivastava (SOAS)  
Discussant: Cansu Civelek (independent researcher).  
Moderation: Bani Gill
12.45-13.45

Lunch (Schloss Hohentübingen)
14:00-18:00

Experimenting with Urban Narratives: Crossing approaches, in the Castle (Schloss Hohentübingen), Room 124 (vorderes Fürstenzimmer)
Opening words: Manuel Dieterich (University of Tübingen)
Session 1
Olaf Kühne (University of Tübingen) "Urban Oilscapes—An Approach to Baton Rouge (Louisiana) from a Neo-Pragmatist Perspective."  
Michael Janoschka (KIT, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) (title to be confirmed)
Discussant: Sanjay Srivastava (SOAS)
Session 2
Ann-Kathrin Steiner (University of Tübingen). Playing the city. Making urban knowledge accessible through play (title to be confirmed)   
Thomas Thiemeyer (University of Tübingen) Displaying the city: Narratives about AI in Tübingen  
Discussant: Carlos Nazario Mora Duro (University of Tübingen)
16:00 

Coffee Break
Session 3
Nikoloas Olma (University of the Aegean) Narrating Radiation: Tracing Urban Toxicity in a Former Uranium Mining Town in Kyrgyzstan
Claire Bullen (University of Tübingen) Building stories of conflict and conviviality. Mixing methods across the Mediterranean.  
Discussant: Manuel Dieterich
17.30-18.00 

Final Discussion
18:30-20:00

Vernissage, “ZONE 54 : Unrestricted Areas”, a documentary and collaborative photographic project, Amandine Turri Hoelken, with Emy, Gaëtan, Ingrid, Le fils, Mike (Deutsch-Französisches Kulturinstitut, Doblerstraße 25)
Opening words: Claire Bullen
19:00 “Dropouts. Narrating mobilities from the margins.”, A talk from anthropologist and photographer, Amandine Turri Holken (University of Strasbourg)
Refreshments provided by the German French Institute
20:15 

Dinner

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Biography

Anna Steigemnn ist Professorin für Stadtforschung und Raumsoziologie am Department  for Interdisciplinary Multiscalar (DIMAS) der Universität Regensburg  sowie Associated Researcher an der Habitat Unit, dem Fachgebiet für Internationale Urbanistik und Design, an derm Technischen Universität Berlin. 

Ihre Forschungsinteressen umfassen Gender, Migration, Diversität, Stadt-,Nachbarschafts- und Communityforschung, Infrastruktur-, kritische Governance- und Partizipationsforschung sowie kollaborative qualitative Sozial- und Raumforschungsmethoden.

Abstract

Within the field of interdisciplinary urban research in Germany, few scholars have addressed the more informal self-made arrival infrastructures in the course of home-making of forced migrants in so-called collective accommodations and on the neighborhood level as well as their impact on urban space-/ place-  and neighborhood-making.

With a focus on the making and unmaking of home through more makeshift or bottom-up architectures of asylum but more so through self-made arrival infrastructures and the related infrastructuring practices, this presentation discusses findings from in-depth ethnographic studies of first, refugee accommodations in Berlin and Zaatari and second, also the surrounding (ordinary) neighborhood in Berlin-Neukölln. In detail, I will address both the spatial production and the social life in the more top-down formalized arrival infrastructures in/of the camps as well as of the more self-made, bottom-up and often more informalized arrival infrastructures. Contrasting the two as first, socio-spatial/ -material settings and second, as a set of distinct practices and personal ensembles of the involved people, the presentation then reveals how the forced migrants’ efforts to make themselves at home (temporarily or not) involves and results in socio-spatial settings and practices, which in turn also affect arrival, belonging, and homemaking for other newcomers and city residents.

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Biography

I am a socio-anthropologist with a doctorate from the Graduate Institute of Geneva, and I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Amsterdam. For the past ten years, I have been working on marginalized neighborhoods in France through collaborative projects focusing on youth participation, crime, and its repression, and, more recently, state-led social experimentation. Deeply interdisciplinary—straddling sociology, anthropology, and political science —my research relies on ethnographic, audiovisual, and collaborative methodologies.

Abstract

My talk will draw upon urban anthropology and gender studies to analyze how mothers in poor neighborhoods physically and spatially negotiate the violent competition between the police and drug trafficking. Based on an ethnographic study conducted in 2021/2022 in a housing estate in northern Marseille (France) and utilizing drawings for spatial analysis, I examine how these mothers navigate a strategic yet precarious intermediary space between drug trafficking and the police on a daily basis. The French state’s war on drugs, targeting drug trafficking in poor neighborhoods, has profoundly disrupted local social life. Mothers face spatial injunctions from both police officers and traffickers, aimed at excluding them from public outdoor spaces, while domestic spaces are simultaneously threatened by trafficking-related intrusions and police raids. As a result, these mothers are particularly vulnerable to forms of violence that tend to dispossess them of their living spaces. Nevertheless, some of them enjoy a form of local respectability that enables them to develop intermediation tactics to manage the interface between drug traffickers and police agents. They embody the role of the "good mother" by monitoring the distance between the neighborhood’s children and traffickers, act as “outspoken mediators” by intervening in local altercations and occasionally accept the role of safeguarding the presence of local social workers. In a context of competitive loyalties, their art of intermediation hinges on a delicate and uncertain balance between inter-feminine solidarity and mutual comparison

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Biography

Associate Professor Akın Bakioğlu is a faculty member at Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology. His research interests include sociology of migration, labor and class studies, digital capitalism, industrial labor, and the historical formation of the working class in Turkey. Dr. Bakioğlu completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in sociology at Süleyman Demirel University and his PhD in Sociology at Ankara University in 2019. In his dissertation, he analyzed the coal mining sector in Turkey and the historical formation of the working class in the Zonguldak region through the axis of class, memory, and space. In recent years, Dr. Bakioğlu has been focusing on international migration, especially on the class positioning, experiences of exclusion and organizing practices of Turkish workers migrating to Germany. She is currently working on her postdoctoral project at the University of Tübingen under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Boris Nieswand. The title of her project is: “Working Experiences of Workers from Turkey in Germany: Exclusion, Intra-Class Position, Organizing”. In addition, Dr. Bakioğlu has been an active member of the board of directors of the Sociological Association of Turkey for almost 10 years and contributes to the organization of the academic community.

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Bio: Jérôme Tadié is an urban geographer, researcher at the Institute for Development Research (IRD) in the Migration and Society Research Unit (UMR Urmis - IRD, Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Université Côte). His research focuses on informal control and government of Jakarta and São Paulo, as seen from the grassroots. His publications include, on Jakarta, Les Territoires de la violence à Jakarta (Belin, 2006), articles on political informality, on the use of neighbourhood fires, NGOs, the night economy (both in Jakarta and Manila), and ghosts in Jakarta, as well on the control and policing of the city at night in São Paulo in a historical perspective. He is also working on photography and its uses in social sciences.