CFP: Cities in Less Developed Areas, AAG 2003.
Cities in Less Developed Areas.
AAG Conference, New Orleans, March 4-8, 2003.
Call for Papers.
This will be a session concerned with the most diverse
aspects of cities and urban environments in less
developed areas of the world. Although the point of
departure for the debate is the idea of uneven
development and its multiple implications, other
approaches will also be accepted. The panel aims to
discuss subjects such as
Global cities in less developed areas of developed and
less developed countries
Globalisation and social exclusion
Urban environmental problems and management
Urban governance
Historical accounts of urban development
Capital scarcity, speed of flows and the making of
peripheral areas
Social movements and social justice
Privatisation and public-private partnerships in urban
services
Gentrification and housing markets
Urban tribes and urban identities
Social struggles for scarce resources
Urban poverty and survival strategies
Criminality and the geography of violence and drug
consumption
Morphological and typological architectural and urban
patterns
Space, marginality, non-cartesian subjectivies and
sexuality
Traffic networks and the informational society
Informal alternative transportation and the new
geography of jitneys
Learned (mis)representations of urban phenomena and
informal settlements
The lexicography of peripheral spaces
Post-colonialism and less developed areas
You are most welcome to send a proposal with title,
250 words abstract following the rules of the AAG for
the 2003 meeting (www.aag.org), your name and
institutional affiliation until September 27, 2002 by
e-mail only to
Joel Outtes, Oriel College
University of Oxford
Oxford OX1 4EW, UK
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