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INVITATION

STUDIES IN POLITICAL ECONOMY ANNUAL CONFERENCE
"TOWARDS A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SCALE"

FEBRUARY 3-5, 2005
YORK UNIVERSITY, TORONTO, ON



The Canadian journal Studies in Political Economy is holding a major academic 
conference with the title "Towards a Political Economy of Scale." This event, 
which is the journal's annual conference, will be open to the public. It 
assembles a leading group of scholars and practitioners who have worked on the 
problematic of scale. During the three-day meeting, (starting in the afternoon 
of  February 3) there will be keynote addresses by Neil Smith, Neil Brenner, 
Bob Jessop, Helga Leitner, Warren Magnusson, Jamie Peck, Eric Sheppard, Erik 
Swyngedouw and Gerda Wekerle. The conference format includes a student 
conference on February 3 featuring cutting edge work by Canadian and 
international graduate students and 8 consecutive panels on February 4 and 5.  

You can view a complete preliminary program and other information at: 

http://www.carleton.ca/polecon/scale 

The Political Economy of Scale:

Theoretical work on the "politics of scale/rescaling" offers the possibility of

developing a more nuanced perspective of the spatial order of globalization. 
Even as the formation of national states earlier failed to eliminate sub and 
trans-national scales of action, so the contemporary restructuring of economic,

social and political relations is better grasped as the contested 
reconfiguration of scales and interscalar arrangements. Towards a Political 
Economy of Scale encourages cross-disciplinary work that explores the ways 
scale intersects with other processes - from capital accumulation through 
social reproduction. How have particular scales been constituted as sites for 
collective action? How do scale and interscalar arrangements figure in the 
strategies of collective actors? What are the implications of changes to 
interscalar arrangements for citizenship and democracy?  We are also interested

in engaging with those who contest the utility of the political economy of 
scale. Does the scale metaphor horizontal connections among actors? 

More specific topics include: Theories of Scale and Rescaling; Rescaling and 
the Urban; Aboriginal Peoples and the Politics of Scale Social Movements and 
Scale as a Strategic Dimension; Welfare States Restructuring and Inter-scalar 
Arrangements; The Scaling and Re-scaling of Bodies; The Political Ecology of 
Scale.

A modest fee of $15 will be collected for general admission to the events of 
February 4 and 5. Students, speakers and unwaged are free.

Organizers are Rianne Mahon (Carleton University), Roger Keil (York 
University), and Caroline Andrew (Université de Ottawa)




 

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