Appel à contributions: Welfare and the domestic space. Housing and health in the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean

Lieu: Istanbul, Institut français d’études anatoliennes (IFEA)

Date: 14-15 octobre 2022

Date limite de soumission d’une proposition de communication: 1er août 2022

Since the 19th century, providing housing and inspecting dwellings for health reasons has become a domain of action for both public and private actors of welfare. Despite extensive literature on the history of social housing in Western European and Northern American cities, scholars have rarely observed the impact of welfare on the domestic sphere. Moreover, in the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean, a geographical area marked by clashing imperial formations, with an important ethno-religious diversity, competing nationalisms and political regimes, massive human displacements and rural-to-urban migrations, housing provision appears as a fundamental yet overlooked part of social protection. This workshop will explore why and how the State and associations, as well as international actors, have intervened on housing from the 19th to the early 21st centuries in this region. We will try to identify the sources that could help address these questions, frame the geographical scope of the issue and highlight the historical moments of reconfiguration, from Ottoman rule to the post-war breakup of Empires and the contemporary era. 

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iburel (30 juillet 2022). Appel à contributions: Welfare and the domestic space. Housing and health in the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean. AJCH. Consulté le 14 juin 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/ax4v


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