CfP – Making the city differently: urban struggles, circulations and networks after 1945 – EAUH 2026, Barcelona – Deadline: 17/11/2025
Chères et chers collègues,
Nous avons le plaisir de vous partager (ci-dessous) l’appel à communication (en anglais) pour une session programmée à l’occasion du prochain colloque de l’European Association for Urban History (EAUH) sur le thème « City Networks in Europe and Beyond », qui se tiendra à Barcelone du 2 au 5 septembre 2026, et intitulée :
*Making the city differently: urban struggles, circulations and networks after 1945*
Résumé: This session will look at the circulation and transfer of critical discourses, as well as activist practices that challenge the dominant ways of making cities after 1945. From a transnational perspective, the aim is to trace the networks, interrelations and genealogies of critical and alternative urbanism in contemporary Europe and beyond.
Le calendrier est le suivant:
* Paper submission deadline: Monday November 17, 2025 * Paper acceptance deadline: Monday January 19, 2026 * Conference start date: Wednesday September 2, 2026
Présentation détaillée de la session : After the Second World War, the acceleration of urbanisation and the generalisation of the principles of the Modern movement transformed European cities and the daily lives of their inhabitants. Faced with building, urban planning and development policies that were decided centrally or authoritatively, without taking account of residents and their needs, an oppositional movement arose across Europe that varied in terms of how radical it was. In a number of European countries, residents, urban professionals, researchers, political activists, associations and religious leaders became critiqued the new urban development patterns, and took action at grassroots level to oppose them and build alternatives. In the 1960s and 1970s, as pushback against the social, political and economic order in Western countries became broader, urban struggles multiplied. The simultaneity or proximity in time of these urban social movements made the circulation of similar slogans, strategies, objectives and forms of protest across Europe more visible. This leads to study these critics and social movements, not only from an international or comparative but also a transnational perspective. This session will look at the circulation and transfer of critical discourse, as well as the practices and knowledge of activists who challenged the dominant ways of making the city after 1945. From a transnational historical perspective, the aim is to trace the more or less formal networks , interrelationships and genealogies of critical and alternative urbanism in contemporary Europe and beyond. Based on case studies precisely situated in time and space, the proposals are invited to:
* Demonstrate the plurality of spheres and networks (political, academic, intellectual, trade union, religious, administrative, professional) that have contributed to the international circulation of experiments in critical and alternative urbanism, and examine, for example, the mediating role played by some of the people involved, through travel or translation work. * Identify precisely what is circulated and shared – e.g. frameworks of thought or analysis, means of action and mobilisation (occupation, squatting, investigative practices), alternative planning practices or political organisation – and the material and immaterial ways in which they are circulated. The possible difficulties of documenting and studying these circulations involving militant spheres and actors, in opposition to the authorities or even, in an authoritarian context, underground, could be mentioned * Highlight the different levels of circulation (local, national, international) of critical discourse and mobilisation opposing urban policies, and determining the extent and meaning of these circulations, even looking at the generational transmission of these critical and militant experiences, drawing up other ways of making the city.
Vous retrouverez toutes les informations sur les pages suivantes : www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#session71 www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/
L’appel est également diffusé via Calenda: calenda.org/1292259 Merci de relayer dans vos réseaux!
Sincères salutations, *Baptiste Colin*, Maître de conférences en urbanisme et aménagement de l’espace, Institut de Géoarchitecture/Université de Bretagne Occidentale (Brest), Laboratoire Géoarchitecture. *Céline Vaz*, Maîtresse de conférences en histoire contemporaine, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France (Valenciennes), LARSH.
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Baptiste COLIN Maître de conférences en aménagement de l’espace et urbanisme Institut de Géoarchitecture Laboratoire Géoarchitecture – EA 7462 6, avenue Victor Le Gorgeu 29200 – BREST Ubo <www.univ-brest.fr/faculte-sciences/>
Nous avons le plaisir de vous partager (ci-dessous) l’appel à communication (en anglais) pour une session programmée à l’occasion du prochain colloque de l’European Association for Urban History (EAUH) sur le thème « City Networks in Europe and Beyond », qui se tiendra à Barcelone du 2 au 5 septembre 2026, et intitulée :
*Making the city differently: urban struggles, circulations and networks after 1945*
Résumé: This session will look at the circulation and transfer of critical discourses, as well as activist practices that challenge the dominant ways of making cities after 1945. From a transnational perspective, the aim is to trace the networks, interrelations and genealogies of critical and alternative urbanism in contemporary Europe and beyond.
Le calendrier est le suivant:
* Paper submission deadline: Monday November 17, 2025 * Paper acceptance deadline: Monday January 19, 2026 * Conference start date: Wednesday September 2, 2026
Présentation détaillée de la session : After the Second World War, the acceleration of urbanisation and the generalisation of the principles of the Modern movement transformed European cities and the daily lives of their inhabitants. Faced with building, urban planning and development policies that were decided centrally or authoritatively, without taking account of residents and their needs, an oppositional movement arose across Europe that varied in terms of how radical it was. In a number of European countries, residents, urban professionals, researchers, political activists, associations and religious leaders became critiqued the new urban development patterns, and took action at grassroots level to oppose them and build alternatives. In the 1960s and 1970s, as pushback against the social, political and economic order in Western countries became broader, urban struggles multiplied. The simultaneity or proximity in time of these urban social movements made the circulation of similar slogans, strategies, objectives and forms of protest across Europe more visible. This leads to study these critics and social movements, not only from an international or comparative but also a transnational perspective. This session will look at the circulation and transfer of critical discourse, as well as the practices and knowledge of activists who challenged the dominant ways of making the city after 1945. From a transnational historical perspective, the aim is to trace the more or less formal networks , interrelationships and genealogies of critical and alternative urbanism in contemporary Europe and beyond. Based on case studies precisely situated in time and space, the proposals are invited to:
* Demonstrate the plurality of spheres and networks (political, academic, intellectual, trade union, religious, administrative, professional) that have contributed to the international circulation of experiments in critical and alternative urbanism, and examine, for example, the mediating role played by some of the people involved, through travel or translation work. * Identify precisely what is circulated and shared – e.g. frameworks of thought or analysis, means of action and mobilisation (occupation, squatting, investigative practices), alternative planning practices or political organisation – and the material and immaterial ways in which they are circulated. The possible difficulties of documenting and studying these circulations involving militant spheres and actors, in opposition to the authorities or even, in an authoritarian context, underground, could be mentioned * Highlight the different levels of circulation (local, national, international) of critical discourse and mobilisation opposing urban policies, and determining the extent and meaning of these circulations, even looking at the generational transmission of these critical and militant experiences, drawing up other ways of making the city.
Vous retrouverez toutes les informations sur les pages suivantes : www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#session71 www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/
L’appel est également diffusé via Calenda: calenda.org/1292259 Merci de relayer dans vos réseaux!
Sincères salutations, *Baptiste Colin*, Maître de conférences en urbanisme et aménagement de l’espace, Institut de Géoarchitecture/Université de Bretagne Occidentale (Brest), Laboratoire Géoarchitecture. *Céline Vaz*, Maîtresse de conférences en histoire contemporaine, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France (Valenciennes), LARSH.
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Baptiste COLIN Maître de conférences en aménagement de l’espace et urbanisme Institut de Géoarchitecture Laboratoire Géoarchitecture – EA 7462 6, avenue Victor Le Gorgeu 29200 – BREST Ubo <www.univ-brest.fr/faculte-sciences/>