Apologies for cross posting but this call for papers may be of interest.
Geographers have long been interested in urban industrial and post-industrial
economies in terms of their economic and political foundations, impacts on
employment and urban form, and role in shaping the spatiality and spatial
relations of cities. A diverse range of conceptual approaches have been
developed to explore these debates including work on: global or world cities
and ordinary and regional cities; migration, transnationalism and city labour
markets; and, cultural economy approaches to cities. Implicit within much of
this existing work is recognition of the fact that much work goes on, at the
level of regulators, firms, and individuals to produce urban economies and
reproduce them when contestations or crises occur. Most recently the
differential impact of the credit crunch and ensuing recession on urban
economies globally has revealed the need to develop work more fully on the
actors and processes producing and reproducing city economies, their
strategies, motivations and geographically heterogeneous effects. In
response, through this session we seek to examine the types, methods,
impacts and changes associated with producing and reproducing urban
economies from the point of view of a range of different actors. Papers might
explore, but are not limited to, examinations of the production and
reproduction of city economies and:
• The role of regulators and regulation in defining existing and new
trajectories
• The production and effects of country- or city-specific institutional
regimes
• The role of actors within the ‘cultural circuit of capital’ including
management consultants, business schools, the media and business gurus
• The role of globalisation and transnational corporations
• The tactics and impacts of non-governmental organisations, from
lobby groups to activists
• The impacts of and responses to the credit crisis and ensuing
recession
Keywords
City economies, crises, recession, institutional regimes, cultural economy,
globalisation
Please submit abstracts of up to 250 words to Sarah Hall
([log in to unmask]) and James Faulconbridge (J.Faulconbridge) by
12 February 2010.
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