Hello colleagues,
Just a revised CFP on our proposed panel theme on Asian cities at the AAG. Those
interested, or having further questions, should write to Bharat Punjabi
([log in to unmask]) and Michelle Kooy ([log in to unmask])
Sincerely,
Bharat Punjabi (Graduate program, Social Anthropology, York University, Toronto)
Michelle Kooy(Phd candidate, Geography ,University of British Columbia,
Vancouver)
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CFPs: Politics of the environment in the Asian City
A panel for the 2006 American Asociation of Geographers on the politics of
urban environments in Asia is looking for graduate students who are doing
research related to either the politics of the production of urban nature in an
Asian city, or looking at the political ecological relations surrounding past or
present urban environmental issues in an Asian locale. We would encourage
abstract submissions from graduate students who (like us) are interested in
exploring how the politics of urban environments in Asia, with their particular
spatial relationships of uneven development, specific historical
relations of inequity, suggest the need for non-Western theories of urbanization
and non-western analysis of the political ecological relationships in/around
urban spaces.
Our interpretation of urban nature and hence environment is broad (recognizing
socio-natural production through the very process of urbanization) and we
invite abstract submissions related to the politics around a variety of
components of the urban environment; wastewater, solid waste streams, urban
water supply, waterways, harbourfronts, pollutants, greenfields, greenbelts,
and urban parks to name but a few.
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