CALL FOR PAPERS
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> GEOGRAPHIES OF DEVELOPMENT IN ASIA
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> A Special Session at the Centennial Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, 14-19 March 2004
> (Sponsored by Asia Speciality Group, China Specialty Group and Economic Geography Specialty Group)
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> Theme: Geographies of Development in Asia
> Organizer: Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore
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> Since the successful sessions on Economic Geographies of Asia in the Los Angeles AAG meeting in 2002, there has been a sustained and growing interest in the broader geographic processes in Asia. The purpose of this special session is to broaden our geographic enquiry into the patterns and processes of development in Asia. We conceive development in very broad terms to include not just economic dimensions, but also political and socio-cultural processes. As many Asian countries are still struggling with the devastating effects of the 1997/1998 crisis and the instability of the global economy, it is clear that development must stay at the forefront of our geographic enquiry into Asia. Here, we take development as both an endogenous process of growth and improvement in the livelihood of ordinary citizens and an exogenous outcome of the growing articulation of Asian countries in the global economy. We therefore welcome both papers that address development processes within specific Asian countries and papers that examine interregional links between Asia and other regions such as America, Europe and Africa.
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> More specifically, we are interested in theoretically informed empirical papers that address the following dimensions of development in Asia:
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> * Changing political and institutional processes that reshape development agendas;
> * Uneven geographies of economic development and their implications for geographic theories;
> * Social and cultural changes that both drive and result from development processes;
> * Implications of interregional links for development in Asia;
> * Politics of scales in understanding development in Asia;
> * The role of the environment in development and environmental impact of development;
> * Asian cities in development.
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> You may visit the AAG website <http://www.aag.org>; to find out more about the annual meeting. Please register online your paper title and short abstract (no more than 250 words and with 3 keywords) by 31 August 2003 and email your Program Identification Number (PIN) and paper title to me at <[log in to unmask]>.
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> Henry
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> Dr. Henry Wai-chung Yeung
> Associate Professor, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore
> 1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570 Tel: +65-6874 6810; Fax: +65-6777 3091
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
> Homepage: http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/geoywc/henry.htm
> * Co-Editor, Economic Geography (Worcester, MA: Clark University)
> http://www.clarku.edu/econgeography 4th in Geography, CIF 2.46, 2002 SSCI
> * Co-Editor, Environment and Planning A (London: Pion)
> http://www.pion.co.uk/ep/ephome.html 9th in Geography, CIF 1.46, 2002 SSCI
> * Asia Pacific Editor, Global Networks (Oxford: Blackwell)
> http://www.globalnetworksjournal.com/default.htm
Dr. Michael Samers
Secretary, Economic Geography Research Group, RGS-IBG
School of Geography
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