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INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS ANNUAL CONFERENCE, BELFAST, JANUARY
2002
HALF DAY SESSION SPONSORED BY UGRG/WGSG (RGS-IBG URBAN GEOGRAPHY
RESEARCH GROUP/ WOMEN AND GEOGRAPHY STUDY GROUP)
TITLE: Gender, the City, and Everyday Life
ORGANIZERS: Helen Jarvis (Department of Geography, University of Newcastle) and
Loretta Lees (Department of Geography, Kings College London)
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The question of how urban dwellers live and work is critical to the future of cities.
Though much data exists concerning the physical location and
stratification of jobs and housing in metropolitan areas, our
understanding of the way this engenders (and is in turn shaped by)
everyday life remains undeveloped. Addressing this gap, this session
works to generate a fine-grained portrait of urban living.
We know that on aggregate cities continue to lose jobs and population.
We also know through apocalyptic tales of house price inflation and
congestion that 'new economy' skills and capital concentrate in a
limited number of global 'honey pots'. This represents a now familiar
pattern of uneven development and social division. Yet these headline
trends mask significant diversity in localised response to global
problems. Arguably, we need to reach behind who are invading, who are
fleeing and who are being squeezed out of the city to expose the
material, practical and psychic constituents of urban life
underpinning such movements. Evidence that some workers hold multiple
jobs, many households comprise more than one breadwinner and others
split their lives between two or more locations bears testimony to
the increasing complexity of everyday life. This not only entails new
forms of 'flexible' employment but continuing reliance on unpaid,
voluntary, informal, 'hidden' work. To understand how urban dwellers
co-ordinate these multiple spheres of activity and identity this
session seeks to build on the strengths of feminist urban analysis
and the sociology of everyday life.
Topics include:
· the everyday lives of urban dwellers
· gender and identity in the city
· working lives in cities
· negotiating living in the city
PLEASE CONTACT HELEN JARVIS OR LORETTA LEES (EMAILS LISTED ABOVE)
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Dr. Loretta Lees
Department of Geography
King's College London
Strand, London, WC2R 2LS,
U.K.
Tel: 020-7848-2243(direct)/2632(office)
Fax: 020-7848-2287
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See:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/geography
Links to:
KCL Cities, Culture and Social Change Research Group
KCL MA in Cities, Culture and Social Change
KCL Gentrification website (www.gentrification.org)
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