The Interdisciplinary Network of Port Studies (RedEP)
7th General Conference
University of Cádiz
13-15 September, 2017
Conference Website (in Spanish)
The Harbour as an object of analysis
The harbour is the common topic of the conference. Harbours are much more than just functional and administrative units. They are the result of human interaction between
distant places by sea. They are the meeting point of different cultures and also the cluster of different economic activities. Harbours can be places of difficult cultural
integration but also cluster of creative actions during the days and during the nights.
A variety of approaches
The possible research approaches to the port studies are many. The harbour could be the object of local studies. On the contrary they could be considered under the global perspective of social sciences. Someone could study the relations between different harbours and among harbours and its hinterland. Someone else could analyse the social and cultural relations between the different
actors living and working in the harbour. It could be possible to study port issues with a synchronic approach or, on the opposite using a diachronic perspective.
Interdisciplinary invitation
Considering the harbour as a door open on the social analysis, allows to evidence a spatial, political, economic and urban context. A context usually interpreted as an observer and rarely
as a protagonist of relevant episodes that have changed the social life of harbour cities. All scholars which share this interdisciplinary approach to port studies are kindly invited to
participate to this General Conference.
The papers accepted by scientific committee will be considered for the Proceedings.
Conference items:
1. Space and territory
- International, national and local environment in the port history (the history of the harbors, the cities and the regions)
- Harbor in the national and regional projects.
- Dynamics and actors in the port cities.
- The port city as an interdisciplinary area.
- Cartography.
2. Economics
- Harbors and regional development.
- Harbors and international market.
- Dry ports.
- Harbors and agricultural, industrial and commercial policies.
- Port infrastructures.
- Shipyards
- Building and production
- Corrosion of port tools.
- Logistics: transport systems.
- Harbors and railways: challenges.
- The role of the business
- Fishing harbors
- Harbors and tourism
3. Society
- Unrest in port cities.
- Trade Unions in the harbors.
- Networks of harbors.
- Migration and environment.
- History of Maritime mobility (historiography and methodology)
- Urbanism and planning. The port suburbs.
- Life in port cities.
- People and society in the harbors.
4. Culture
- Port identities.
- Arts.
- Media.
- Cultural Heritage.
- Oral histories.
- Travelers stories.
- Music and harbors.
- Harbors and languages.
5. Policy
- Port national administration.
- Public and private harbors.
- Actors and practices.
- Port law.
- The role of institutions in the harbors development
6. International actors.
- IMO
- ONU
- WHO
7. Harbours and Canals
- Buildings.
- Enlargement.
8. Submarine activities, harbours and archelogy (associations)
- Shipwreck.
- Dredging
- Submarine camera.
9. Business and innovation in port industry:
- Projects, containers, drones
- Vinyl in yacht
- Physical Internet
For more information, please Contact: Luis López‐Molina:
viijornadas.estudiosportuarios@uca.es
0034 956015733
