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Final CFP: Doing Comparative Urbanism in the Global East
I look for a couple of papers for an AAG 2017 session on comparative urbanism. Topics in relation to doing comparative urban researches in Asia and elsewhere are welcomed. Please send submissions and inquiries to Do Young Oh([log in to unmask]). Abstracts need to be submitted before the 16th November (Wednesday) to meet the paper abtract submission deadline. Here is the session proposal:
So much has been said about comparative urbanism during recent years. There has been a series of debates about comparative urbanism which was initiated by geographical analysis of postcolonialism (Robinson, 2006). Then, the argument has been developed by Nijman (2007), McFarlane (2010) and McFarlane and Robinson (2012) as a mode of thought to overcome Western-oriented structural ideas which have dominated the discipline of urban studies. Now we see the emergence of “experimental” comparative urbanism offering more new and sophisticated imaginations.
Comparative urbanism has strong implications for studying cities in East Asia. It is particularly because Asian cities can be easily classified as neither developed nor underdeveloped cities due to their rapid economic and social growth. Such ambiguity gives us more room to maneuver to overcome West-versus-third world dichotomy. Such claim also resonates with the concept of the Global East from the emerging literature on gentrification which tries to investigate diverse outcomes of globalised urban processes (Shin et al., 2016).
While there is a clear danger that Asian research falls in the territorial trap as argued by Ren and Luger (2015), it is a role of researcher to produce an alternative to achieve to overcome the dualistic relationship. This session consists of a group of papers doing comparative urban research in relation to cities in East Asia. Each paper is expected to display different theoretical, methodological and practical issues based on empirical researches to continue comparative urbanism as a more productive and distinctive strategy.
Organiser: Do Young Oh (LSE)
Discussant: Jason Luger (UC Berkeley)
This session is sponsopred by Urban Geography Speciality Group
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