Hi all,
This is just a reminder that the deadline is Friday for any submissions to our sessions at the AAG next year. Please do get in touch if you have any questions!
Transnational urban expertise: geopolitics, histories and mobilities
Conveners: Ruth Craggs (King's College London) and Hannah Neate
(Manchester Metropolitan University)
This session brings together historical and contemporary accounts of
transnational urban experts and expertise. We are interested in
contributions that develop debates about urban expertise by connecting past
and present, for example through exploring the prehistories of current
policy and ideas, or destabilising the ahistorical nature of some accounts
of urban policy mobilities. This includes research that troubles the
directionality of urban policy mobility by highlighting how ideas travel
from the global south, the Third World, or the Eastern bloc to Europe or
the West, as well as those which circulate between countries of the global
south; research that discusses places or ideas not often highlighted in
discussion of urban policy mobility; or work that looks beyond the typical
agents of urban expertise (e.g. architects, planners, economic
consultants), to other, less researched actors (e.g. administrators,
community development officers, artists, activists).
Possible themes for papers include:
• Expertise in geopolitical transitions such as decolonization and
the end of the Cold War
• Novel methods for researching transnational experts and urban
policy
• Urban expertise and temporalities (e.g. careers and policies over
longer time spans)
• Flows of expertise which trouble typical flows from North to South
• Postcolonial urban policy mobility
Deadlines:
Please email abstracts to Ruth Craggs at [log in to unmask] by the 7th
October 2016. We will get back to everyone by 14th October 2016 and you
will be expected to register, pay conference fees, and submit your
abstracts online at the AAG website by 27th October 2016.
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