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Alternative Urbanisms
A two-day conference and open discussion organised by the RGS-IBG Urban
Geography Research Group.
Dates: 11-12 November 2010
Location: University College London
Preliminary Call for Contributions
This year’s UGRG Conference will explore alternative ways of organising,
practising and imagining cities. It responds to recent global turbulence
and uncertainty in urban capitalist economies, political frameworks and
environmental conditions. These urgently demand new ways of challenging
existing policies, ideologies and visions, by recognising a broad and
complex array of urban geographies, and emphasising the creative and
sustainable possibilities of the urban twenty-first century.
We are seeking contributions from a wide range of urban research around
a variety of geographical and historical contexts. We hope the informal
and supportive forum of the Conference will encourage discussion, debate
and learning on these themes.
Guiding topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Emergent forms of organizational infrastructures which build new
alliances between political actors within and across cities.
- Case studies that challenge or unsettle dominant conceptions and
geographical circuits within urban theory.
- New urban analyses of power, civil society and everyday life .
- How the work of artists and cultural practitioners can help develop
urban counter-geographies and new engagements with urban space and place.
- Issues of justice and equity in the framing and formulation of urban
policies.
- Critical perspectives on historical and present roles for utopianism
in urban visions, theory and planning.
Building on the success of previous events, the conference will take the
form of keynote presentations, shorter papers, and a poster session by
postgraduate students. Papers are welcomed from researchers (including
PhD students) at any stage of their careers, but the poster session is
specifically designed for postgraduates, with a prize awarded to the
best entry.
If you would like to contribute a paper or a poster, please contact:
Andrew Harris: [log in to unmask] and Margo Huxley:
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The deadline for 200 word abstracts is Friday 27 August 2010.
For more information about the Urban Geography Research Group please
visit: www.urban-geography.org.uk
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Tim Heinemann
Department of Geography - Queen Mary, University of London
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Editorial Assistant Progress in Human Geography
http://phg.sagepub.com/
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