BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//TYPO3/NONSGML Calendarize//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendarize-making-futures-by-promises DTSTAMP:20251215T135155Z DTSTART:20260106T160000Z SUMMARY:Making futures by promises? DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nUrban politics is full of promises\, but not every p romise is heard or becomes an object of political desire for others\; even fewer promises are fulfilled. This binding yet non-binding quality of pro mises plays a role in shaping the future of urban society. It is therefore worthwhile to take the mechanisms and conditions of promises seriously fr om an analytical perspective. From a cultural studies perspective\, I woul d like to propose to examine cities as a ¡®promissory assemblage¡¯. This allows for an opening up of analytical perspectives on the temporality of future-making promises\, the binding nature of the social connections the y articulate\, and their narrative power ¨C and their inconsistencies.\nU sing the example of the feature film?Les promesses?(The promises\; Thoma s Kruithof\, 2022) and the documentary?Appartement proche Paris\, charme atypique?(Apartment close to Paris\, atypical charm\; Marion Angelosanto\ , 2024)\, which explore the housing market in the Parisian banlieues\, I i nvestigate the conditions for the often conflict-laden effectiveness of pr omises. How exactly do promises become clusters and objects of political d esire? What forces are at work in this process? And is the field of the ho using market particularly specific in this regard? My interest lies in the highly ambivalent potential of promises\; by this\, I mean that what cons titutes a joyful promise for one person can be a threat to another. Moreov er\, the joyful engagement with a cluster of promises can transform into a n exhausting attachment to an ¡®object of (political) desire¡¯.\nBio\nAl exa F?rber is a professor of European Ethnology at the Department of Euro pean Ethnology at the University of Vienna. Her research and teaching focu s on urban research from a cultural studies perspective\, the anthropology of knowledge\, and multimodal methodologies. Combining these fields and r elated methods\, she has worked and published extensively\, presenting con cepts such as the ¡®tangibility of the city¡¯ (2010)\, ¡®low-budget urb anity¡¯ (2016)\, the city as a ¡®promissory assemblage¡¯ (2019)\, and\, with Alexander Martos\, ¡®objects of political desire¡¯ (2024). Her pra ctical and epistemological interest in inter- and transdisciplinary workin g contexts has led to the development of long-term research networks\, suc h as the French-German research network Penser l'urbain par l'image\, as w ell as various shorter research projects\, including Klimarechnungshof.jet zt! (Austrian Science Fund\, FWF) and Infrastructuring Libraries in Transf ormation (Urban Europe\, EUNTC\, 2022¨C2025). In a long-term study based in Paris\, she is investigating the effects and affects of promises in thi s fragmented urban society. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

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Urban po litics is full of promises\, but not every promise is heard or becomes an object of political desire for others\; even fewer promises are fulfilled. This binding yet non-binding quality of promises plays a role in shaping the future of urban society. It is therefore worthwhile to take the mechan isms and conditions of promises seriously from an analytical perspective. From a cultural studies perspective\, I would like to propose to examine c ities as a ¡®promissory assemblage¡¯. This allows for an opening up of a nalytical perspectives on the temporality of future-making promises\, the binding nature of the social connections they articulate\, and their narra tive power ¨C and their inconsistencies.

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Using the example of the feature film \;Les promesses \;(The promises\; Thomas Kr uithof\, 2022) and the documentary \;Appartement proche Paris\, ch arme atypique \;(Apartment close to Paris\, atypical charm\; Mari on Angelosanto\, 2024)\, which explore the housing market in the Parisian banlieues\, I investigate the conditions for the often conflict-laden effe ctiveness of promises. How exactly do promises become clusters and objects of political desire? What forces are at work in this process? And is the field of the housing market particularly specific in this regard? My inter est lies in the highly ambivalent potential of promises\; by this\, I mean that what constitutes a joyful promise for one person can be a threat to another. Moreover\, the joyful engagement with a cluster of promises can t ransform into an exhausting attachment to an ¡®object of (political) desi re¡¯.

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Alexa F?rber is a professor o f European Ethnology at the Department of European Ethnology at the Univer sity of Vienna. Her research and teaching focus on urban research from a c ultural studies perspective\, the anthropology of knowledge\, and multimod al methodologies. Combining these fields and related methods\, she has wor ked and published extensively\, presenting concepts such as the ¡®tangibi lity of the city¡¯ (2010)\, ¡®low-budget urbanity¡¯ (2016)\, the city a s a ¡®promissory assemblage¡¯ (2019)\, and\, with Alexander Martos\, ¡® objects of political desire¡¯ (2024). Her practical and epistemological i nterest in inter- and transdisciplinary working contexts has led to the de velopment of long-term research networks\, such as the French-German resea rch network Penser l'urbain par l'image\, as well as various shorter resea rch projects\, including Klimarechnungshof.jetzt! (Austrian Science Fund\, FWF) and Infrastructuring Libraries in Transformation (Urban Europe\, EUN TC\, 2022¨C2025). In a long-term study based in Paris\, she is investigat ing the effects and affects of promises in this fragmented urban society.< /p> LOCATION:Auditorium\, HCU (https://urban-future-making.hcu-hamburg.de/agen da/making-futures-by-promises-an-urban-anthropological-perspective-on-hous ing-as-an-object-of-political-desire) END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR