to be explored in conference
The little-understood networks and forms of authority in cities around the world will be explored at the conference "Urban Charisma: On Reputations, Hustlers, Big Men and Other Forms of Urban Infra-Power," taking place on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 23 and 24, at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS), 33 Hillhouse Ave.
The event, which was organized in cooperation with the University of Amsterdam, is sponsored by Yale's Department of Anthropology and the South Asian Studies Council at YCIAS.
"City-dwellers, like urban anthropologists, struggle to make sense of a complex and ever-shifting urban landscape. ... Within cities it is always the poorest and most dense parts that acquire a quasi-mythical status as sources of crime, amorality and danger but also of hidden forces, enormous strength and heroic courage," write the organizers.
The conference, they note, will examine various forms of "urban infra-power," particularly how "the making of the urban strongman, the local religious authority, local vigilantism and 'moral policing and control' in neighborhoods are based on networks of connectedness and shifting solidarities." By exploring these networks in urban spaces in Europe, America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, presenters will shed light on "the connections between and interplay of kinship, religion, patronage and affect in the making of urban infra-power and urban charisma," say the organizers.
Sessions will be held 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Friday in the YCIAS auditorium and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday in Rm. 202. Registration will open at 8:30 a.m. both days in the common room. Admission to the conference is free, and the event is open to the public.
More information about "Urban Charisma" is available online at www.yale.edu/ycias/southasia/urban_charisma.htm.
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