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On 12 Jan 2012, at 00:02, URB-GEOG-FORUM automatic digest system <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Topics of the day:
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> 1. 2nd CfP RGS-IBG 2012 - Writing and doing human geography research in
> Greece during a turbulent decade: From the ‘relative security’ of
> fragmented neoliberalization to the ‘insecurity’ of the Greek debt crisis
> 2. Final CFP RGS-IBG 2012: Displacing subjectivities in gentrifying
> neighbourhoods: morality, mobility and place.
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> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:35:34 +0200
> From: Lazaros Karaliotas <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: 2nd CfP RGS-IBG 2012 - Writing and doing human geography research in Greece during a turbulent decade: From the ‘relative security’ of fragmented neoliberalization to the ‘insecurity’ of the Greek debt crisis
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> /apologies for cross-posting/
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> RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2012, 3-5 July 2012, University of Edinburgh
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> Co-sponsored by the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG)
> and the Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG)
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> Call for papers: Writing and doing human geography research in Greece
> during a turbulent decade: From the ‘relative security’ of fragmented
> neoliberalization to the ‘insecurity’ of the Greek debt crisis
>
> Since the late 1990s, the Greek government embarked in a contradictory and
> contingent process of partially applying – under the notion of modernizing
> the country up to 2004 and under the notion of reestablishing the state up to
> 2009 by the succeeding government – a series of neoliberal policies that
> included the development of mega-events and mega-projects, the
> privatization of public services, the introduction of PFIs, the reform of
> the Greek educational, healthcare and welfare systems and thereorganization of
> national, regional and local governance towards a smaller but centralized
> state. These policies, along with a series of phenomena that affected
> Greece during that decade, such as the influx of global migration flows,
> the restructuring of the Greek economy and the Athens December riots in 2008
> ; led to radical changes to the economic, political, social and cultural
> environment of the country. The emergence of the global recession in 2008
> and the subsequent Greek debt crisis has led to the implementation of a
> structural adjustment program since 2010, that has introduced a new series
> of radical changes in the Greek society. This session seeks to examine
> Greece as an area of human geography research in a twofold way. Firstly, it
> provides a space for presenting research that addresses particular aspects
> of the processes of neoliberalization that unfolded in Greece since the
> late 1990s. Secondly, it attempts to interrogate theoretical and
> methodological issues of doing human geography researchwithin an insecure
> and unstable context such as the Greek one. We welcome theoretically and
> empirically informed papers that address the following:****
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> -Theorizing the form and role of the Greek state since the late 1990s.****
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> -The implementation, of neoliberal polices and the restructuring of economy
> in Greece before and during the ‘Greek debt crisis’.****
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> -Social and cultural transformations of the Greek society, particularly
> issues related to class, gender, identity, consumption culture and cultural
> representation.****
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> -Urban restructuring and gentrification in Greek cities since the late
> 1990s and their inter-linkages with neo-liberal policies. ****
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> -Global migration flows and their impacts in Greece at a local, national
> and transnational scale.****
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> -Geographies of resistance, and social movements during the austerity
> period in Greece.****
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> -Constructing theoretical frameworks for writing human geography research in
> Greece: Between the dominance of the Anglophonediscourse and the adoption
> of local alternative theories.****
> -Conducting human geography research in Greece: Research methodologies and
> issues for studying a society under political and economic insecurity
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> If you would like to present, please send a title and abstract (max.
> 250 words) to Lazaros Karaliotas
> [log in to unmask] or Georgios Tzimas
> [log in to unmask] by Wednesday 25th of January
> 2012.
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> Lazaros Karaliotas
> PhD Researcher, Human Geography
> School of Environment and Development
> University of Manchester
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> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:26:34 +0000
> From: Justin Spinney <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Final CFP RGS-IBG 2012: Displacing subjectivities in gentrifying neighbourhoods: morality, mobility and place.
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> Final CFP RGS-IBG 2012: Displacing subjectivities in gentrifying neighbourhoods: morality, mobility and place.
>
> RGS-IBG Conference, Edinburgh 3rd – 5th July 2012
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> Sponsored by the Urban Geography Research Group
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> Organisers: Ben Coles (Leicester), Justin Spinney (East London)
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> Serving the interests of the middle classes and business elites, contemporary gentrification is thoroughly institutionalized in the urban renewal strategies of local and national governments (Smith 2011). Alongside housing redevelopment, Lees (2003) observes that measures to increase the ‘vitality’ of public space have been instrumental in re-trenching or otherwise (re)producing class-inflected urban landscapes. These ‘vital’ measures circumscribe a range of cultural activities and infrastructures including (for example) farmer’s and organic markets; sport and exercise venues; and bike hire and other mobility schemes. Contributing to discourses around the ‘healthy body’ or the ‘green body’, it is the promotion of these and similar forms of classed consumption that contributes to the production of morally-coded classed landscapes. Practically speaking, contemporary modes of gentrification not only seek to create space for more affluent users; they seek to create more affluent users through the provision and promotion of specific forms of conspicuous consumption. As Paton (2011) argues, although contemporary gentrification remains a process of displacement it is rarely one of physical removal. Rather, it is a process of acculturation that displaces and disconnects particular subjectivities and cultural practices and replaces them with more ‘desirable’ alternatives.
> This session focuses on the interrelationships between urban space, and the displacement of cultural practices and subjectivities that are indicative of more nominal processes of gentrification. Responding to calls to bring critical perspectives back into gentrification research (Slater, 2006), papers are welcome that focus on the experiences of disenfranchised residents in relation to a range of cultural activities and infrastructures. Key themes and question include (but are not limited to):
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> • The effects of such initiatives on residents. To what extent is a process of class transformation/ displacement evident, and in what ways does this process disconnect residents psychologically, socially, economically and physically? Why might residents reject initiatives that on the face of it might benefit them?
> • Exploration of the kinds of modalities and scales that such initiatives and activities operate at. Are feelings of displacement and disconnection engendered at discursive levels, through forms of governmentality or at the level of everyday practice?
> • The stability and security of existing identities and communities, and ways in which these initiatives are resisted. What sense of ownership do residents have over these initiatives? What forms of collective action, alternative activities, and inappropriate use of facilities and spaces are mobilized? How and why do residents empower themselves in particular ways?
> • The response to these processes in disparate global urban settings. How are tensions between the possible benefits of such initiatives and potential displacement and disconnection played out at the global, community and individual level?
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> Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by Monday January 16th 2012 to Justin Spinney ([log in to unmask]) or Ben Coles ([log in to unmask]).
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