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Call for Papers
Annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers, March 7-11 2006,
Chicago, IL
Political Ecologies of Urban Waterfront Transformations
Urban waterfronts around the world continue to change. During the last four
decades, many have been transformed from places where shipping and industry
dominated into spaces for residential and commercial and leisure activities.
Shifting urban political economies, environmental issues and associated
societal relationships with nature, theories and practices of urban
planning,
and the ebbs and flows of civil society action have all played key roles in
defining and producing these transformations. It is important for
theoretical
and empirical research to examine, explain, and inform waterfront
transformations, including the ways in which these transformations
articulate
with the broader political economies and ecologies of cities and urban
change.
Papers in this session will take critical approaches to the historical and
contemporary transformations of urban waterfronts. Paper topics may examine
themes such as: nature-society relationships on the waterfront; new
governance
regimes and mechanisms in urban waterfront development; the politics and
planning of urban waterfronts; historical and environmental geographies of
urban waterfront development; transformations in labour practices and social
inclusion/exclusion; the role of social movements in shaping and contesting
waterfront configurations; and the broader political economy and cultural
politics shaping the revitalization, regeneration, and reproduction of urban
waterfronts.
Contact:
Gene Desfor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University.
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or
W. Scott Prudham, Department of Geography, University of Toronto.
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W. Scott Prudham, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
Program in Planning
and the Institute for Environmental Studies
University of Toronto
Tel: 416-978-4975
Fax: 416-946-3886
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