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January 23, 2007
A Faculty Scholar Seminar |
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The Changing Nature of
Spatial, Linguistic, and Cultural Communities
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John Betancur
Associate Professor,
Urban Planning and Policy Program
UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
Kimberly Potowski
Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese
UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Barbara Ransby
Associate Professor, Departments of African American Studies
and History
UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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Great Cities Institute
412 South Peoria Street, Suite 400
Chicago, IL 60607
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This interdisciplinary panel looked at three key areas
in which communities are constituted, contested, and ultimately reconfigured.
One area is the struggle over real geographic spaces: neighborhoods, public spaces,
and public institutions. The second is an examination of the ways in which
individuals who speak two languages create a third linguistic "space" that challenges
the communicative monolingual norms of both languages. The third is the efforts
by civic organizations to create common spaces and forums that forge new publics
and counter-publics.
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