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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 21-25,
2015
SPECIAL SESSION: Social movements and urban planning: The learning gap
---SPONSORED BY URBAN GEOGRAPHY SPECIALITY GROUP (UGSG)---
Organizers: Tuna Tasan-Kok (TU Delft, The Netherlands), Basak
Demires-Ozkul (ITU, Turkey) and Ayda Eraydin (METU, Turkey)
Social movements have transcended boundaries and appear in multiple
locations across large cities. Their multiple manifestos are spread in
real time through communication channels and social media across the
globe. New technologies allow for the multiplicity of viewpoints to be
reflected during the transmission of the manifestos and the complexity of
the learning to be preserved. These are, then, embedded in new forms of
collective action either at the originating city or in other cities. The
context of urban movements has substantially changed since the 2000s.
Despite intensive literature on the changing characteristics and processes
of urban social movements, studies that link these movements to urban
planning, policy and practice, as a means of transforming the
socio-political characteristics of society, are limited (Eraydin and
Tasan-Kok, 2013).
In this session we aim to find studies that tackle to what extent the
Œlearning¹ and the Œknowledge¹ (Friedman 1979) in the ongoing cycle of
these actions are transferred to urban planning practices. Planning is
rendered functionless in regards to neoliberal interventions and
large-scale social movements in response to these interventions. Since
these interventions have been fragmented (large-scale project-led
development, property-led, mega projects, neighbourhood redevelopment and
regeneration projects, etc) the outcome of the social movements are also
fragmented. Although the city responds to several interventions, and the
policy makers at different scales respond to demands or ideas of the
people, this is not happening systematically. However, these Œresponsive
learning processes¹ began to turn into Œinteractive learning processes¹ in
the last years. These initiatives have aimed to incorporate social
responses or movements to new urban development processes in the form of
formal or informal planning practices. This session aims to put together
case studies that illustrate these interactive learning processes between
planning and social movements, while seeking answers to the following
questions: How can planning respond to multiple voices of social
movements? What new learning processes are transferred from social
movements to planning practices? And to what extent these experiences may
lead to new planning paradigms ?
Within this scope we are open to a wide range of contributions that
traverse multiple formats:
· Papers that illustrate empirical work on planning practice and
social movements;
· Papers that collect case studies on the transfer of knowledge
from social movements to planning processes;
· Studies that focus on the change of urban policies in connection
to social movements;
· Case studies that show changes in the city/neighbourhood
following social movements;
· Papers on the dissemination and collection of planning
ideas/practices coming from social movements through new technologies (ie.
social media, crowdsourcing)
Authors are invited to submit 250 word abstracts to Tuna Tasan-Kok
([log in to unmask]) and Basak Demires-Ozkul
([log in to unmask]), Ayda Eraydin
([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by October 6. Please feel free
to contact us with questions or to discuss potential paper topics. You can
see more details athttp://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/call_for_papers
References
Eraydin, A. and Tasan-Kok, T. (2014) State response to contemporary urban
movements in Turkey: A critical overview of state entrepreneurialism and
authoritarian interventions. Antipode, 46(1), pp. 110129
Friedman, J (1979) The good society. Boston, MIT Press.
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