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Please find below a call for papers which may be of interest to list
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Securing the Urban Renaissance:
Policing, Community and Disorder
Thursday & Friday, 16-17 June 2005
The Teacher Building
14-16 St Enoch Square
Glasgow
G1 4DB
Creating the conditions for an 'Urban Renaissance' has become a central
aspect of the future vision for British cities and towns. Primarily this has
been seen as a process of physical and social revitalisation, particularly
for those areas suffering from concentrated disadvantage and poor
environmental quality. However, the links between the urban renaissance and
an environment conducive to feelings of safety have also become an essential
component of strategies promoting physical change and economic development.
In short, securing an urban renaissance requires inclusive forms of policing
and security that may drive the confidence of local residents as well as
potential investors in urban locations.
Much of the current political project is based on ideas of community and
social cohesion, both as social agents as well as the goal of regeneration.
These concerns are evident in a sustained focus on crime control, policing,
security and safety within urban spaces with disorder and anti-social
behaviour firmly at the top of plans to bring 'civility' back to city
centres and neighbourhoods. With public, academic and policy attention
centring on initiatives such as crime reduction partnerships, Anti-Social
Behaviour Orders (ASBOs), various warden programmes and disorder in
residential neighbourhoods and city centres, this conference will explore
critically the connections, linkages and assumptions underpinning these
policy programmes.
The conference will provide a place for discussion and the development of
our understanding of policies, theories and practices surrounding: firstly,
an 'urban renaissance' to inject new vitality to British (as well as
European) urban cores; and, secondly, issues of policing, community and
disorder in urban spaces.
In particular, the conference will consist of plenary sessions and workshops
on themes to include:
- Urban Renaissance and crime control: city centre crime as business crime;
the night-time economy and crime; quality-of-life offences and anti-social
behaviour in city centres and neighbourhoods;
- Placing the Urban Renaissance across the city: neighbourhood change, city
centre living and varying community safety agendas;
- Community safety as tool for social inclusion and social justice or
surveillance, displacement and exclusion of 'the usual suspects';
- Theories, strategies and assumptions of 'Securing the Urban Renaissance':
communitarianism, responsibilisation and 'fixing broken windows';
- Practices and policies of policing and social regulation in urban spaces.
Confirmed keynote speakers include Adam Crawford, Leeds; Lynn Hancock, Open
University; Mike Raco, Reading; and Kevin Stenson, Buckinghamshire.
Call for Papers
Abstracts of 250 words for proposed presentations on these or related themes
should be sent to Gesa Helms ([log in to unmask]) or Rowland Atkinson
([log in to unmask]).
We strongly encourage current or recently submitted research students to
send in abstracts.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 March 2005
Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, 25 Bute Gardens,
Glasgow, G12 8RS; Tel: +44(0)141 330 5048; Fax +44(0)141 330 4983
For further information see also
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/urbanstudies/events/urbrenconf.html>
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Dr Gesa Helms
Department of Urban Studies University of Glasgow
25 Bute Gardens Glasgow G12 8RS Scotland
phone +44(0)141 3304615 (direct)/3305048 (office)
fax +44(0)141 3304983
email [log in to unmask]
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