Tourism gentrification: touristification as Lisbon´s new urban frontier of gentrification
https://www.academia.edu/24474010/Mendes_Lu%C3%ADs_2016_Tourism_gentrification_touristification_as_Lisbon_s_new_urban_frontier_of_gentrification_Master_Class_Tourism_Gentrification_and_City_Making_Stadslab_e_Academia_Cidad%C3%A3_Lisboa_16_de_Abril._policopiado_
Luís Mendes
Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território da Universidade de Lisboa,
Centro de Estudos Geográficos,
Instituto Interdisciplinar de Investigação da Universidade de Lisboa,
Av. Prof. Gama Pinto, 2
Sala B3.05
1649-003 Lisboa
http://www.ceg.ul.pt/investigadores.asp?id=51
http://ceg.ulisboa.pt/investigacao/investigadores/luis-filipe-goncalves-mendes/
https://lisboa.academia.edu/Lu%C3%ADsMendes
http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Luis_Mendes8
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Topics of the day:
1. CfP RSA 2017 Dublin - Challenges of Topological Thinking & Inquiry
2. Conference – Images in public space – University of Geneva
3. CFP: 'Between Spaces' Symposium, University of Chichester, June 2017
4. Fw: GPC - Annual Award for New and Emerging Scholars, 2017
5. Cfp: Militarization beyond the Battlefield - (CAG Conf, May 29 - June 2,
2017, Toronto)
6. New issue of ROAR - 'State of Control' - on authoritarian neoliberalism
7. Transformative Knowledge for an era of Planetary Urbanization? Workshop in
Lisbon, 10th July 2017
8. Seasons Greetings from GeoForAll
9. Another tale of Western treachery on China
10. CFP: Exploring the geographies of the Mediterranean urban night - CGI Rome
2017
11. Feminist Geography 2017 - CFP: Demographic fantasies and fever dreams:
taco trucks, burkini bans, and the “basket of deplorables”
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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 07:19:08 +0100
From: Arnoud Lagendijk <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CfP RSA 2017 Dublin - Challenges of Topological Thinking & Inquiry
*call for papers - special session*
Regional Studies Association Annual Conference 2017
Dublin, Ireland, 4th June, 2017 - 7th June, 2017
'Challenges of Topological Thinking & Inquiry' Session organiser(s):
Arnoud Lagendijk, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands:
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John Harrison, Loughborough University, UK: [log in to unmask]
Relational perspectives have greatly advanced our thinking on urban and
regional development. Cities and regions are now more considered as
relationally constituted and positioned. Their boundaries are conceived as
heterogeneous constructs and outcomes of political and identity work rather
than geometrical givens. Relational thinking has also inspired new
intriguing views on policy mobility and territorial responsibilities. This
session focuses on two major challenges. First, the way theoretical work in
the field stands to benefit from recent work on spatialities (Mol, Law …)
and topology (Massey, Allen ….), amongst others. Second, the challenge to
develop research practices, such as comparative studies, that probe and
unravel urban and regional relationality meeting the conceptual depth and
versatility of relational perspectives. This session invites papers making
theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions to the debate.
Potential themes of interest might include, but are not limited to:
- urban/regional development seen from the perspectives of power
geometries and power topologies
- current and alternative forms of policy mobility in shaping new
urban/regional forms and practices
- new forms of relational inquiry, for instance inspired by (post)ANT
and assemblage
- engagement with novel forms of boundary and identity making (e.g.
Brexit) from a relational perspective
- impacts of relational thinking on urban/regional theory, practice or
development
- comparative perspectives of relationality in different geographic
settings or policy spheres
- potential new approaches that challenge/develop relational thinking
Submission guidelines
Please contact the session organisers if you have further questions on the
session and potential contributions.
Please submit proposals for papers in the form of a 250 word abstract (text
only) through the Regional Studies Association conference portal by Friday
24th February 2017 http://www.regionalstudies.org
/conferences/conference/rsa-dublin-2017. Proposals will be considered by
the Conference Programme Committee against the criteria of originality,
interest and subject balance.
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*Struggles over apparently inconsequential issues can be crucial because
they are struggles about who makes the rules (Migdal 2001: 50).*
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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 09:14:38 +0000
From: Thierry Maeder <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Conference – Images in public space – University of Geneva
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the symposium « What do images in public space do? » which will be held at the University of Geneva on the 18, 19 and 20 of January<http://airmail.calendar/2017-01-20%2012:00:00%20UTC+1> 2017.
During the symposium, W.J.T Mitchell will also give a public conference entitled American Psychosis: Trump and the Nightmare of History on the 18th of January 2017<http://airmail.calendar/2017-01-18%2012:00:00%20UTC+1> at 7 pm<http://airmail.calendar/2016-12-19%2019:00:00%20UTC+1>.
You will find the complete program and all the informations needed on our website: http://www.unige.ch/sciences-societe/geo/conference-images/en/
Feel free to relay this information in your scientific networks.
We are looking forward to welcoming you in Geneva.
The Organizing Comittee of the Symposium
thierry maeder
university of geneva
research/teaching assistant
+41 22 379 60 83
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uni carl-vogt, office c508
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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 10:52:20 +0000
From: Vicky Hunter <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP: 'Between Spaces' Symposium, University of Chichester, June 2017
Call for Papers / Presentations / Workshops:
Between Spaces Symposium,
University of Chichester, June 29th – 30th 2017
This two-day symposium develops cross-disciplinary dialogues instigated via the University of Chichester’s ‘Performing Place’ symposium series (2013-15) in which human-environment and place-based engagements were explored by artists and academics from the fields of dance, performance, architecture, human geography, anthropology and cultural studies.
Between Spaces extends this interdisciplinary discourse and develops shared interests in everyday performativity through further exploring how lived environments are performed through everyday acts and how environments perform themselves through tropes such as ruralism, tourism, civic organisation, representation, power and control.
For this symposium we are inviting a limited number of research papers, interactive workshops, lecture-demonstrations, projects and/or performances that particularly address one or more of the following:
· How are relationships between individuals, communities and environments constructed, performed and co-defined?
· How do particular urban spaces inform perceptions of lived environments?
• What individual and collective processes of connectivity and dis-connection inform human-environment relationships?
• How do acts of improvisation, performance, modification and repurposing develop perceptions of ownership and engagement with lived environments?
· How might we research and explore human-environment connectivity through creative and pragmatic approaches?
· How might cross-disciplinary exchange develop new interdisciplinary research methods in this context?
The Between Spaces themes reflect an interest in the dynamic, co-constitutive iterative cycle operating between place, individual, community and environment through which places and place-based identities are performed, re-performed and reiterated. Finding practical and theoretical interdisciplinary modes of research that lead to new methods of unearthing and articulating subjective acts of place identification and place-connection is central to this ethos. For example, site-based performance makers and artists have explored practices of urban engagement from a number of creative, inclusive and often provocative perspectives (see Wrights and Sites, Melanie Kloetzel, Graeme Miller et al). These practices reveal particular sets of knowledges that emerge when re-imagining and re-inventing everyday urban spaces as places of performance. Similarly, architectural research (Mould 2009, Sara 2015) and approaches to environmental psychology (Bondi, et al, in press) inform understandings of urban connectivity through considerations of subjective and collective ‘performances’ of place embedded within everyday acts.
The symposium welcomes proposals for innovative workshop / lecture-demonstration formats alongside more formal 20 minute paper presentations and hopes to foster a dynamic space of exchange in which to imagine and engage with new ways of researching, exploring and articulating embodied experiences of human-environment relationships through interdisciplinary entanglements.
Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s notion of space conceived as both a ‘product and producer’ (1991:142) of human behaviour, the embodied subjectivities to be explored might include those practised by artists, architects, environmentalists and academics, site-based performers, commuters, city inhabitants, children, teenagers and civic workers. Through embracing a broad spectrum of experiences the symposium hopes to incorporate a range of domestic, professional, commercial and academic spheres.
Between Spaces is informed by intellectual initiatives arising from the ‘spatial turn’ (Rendell 2006) within the humanities and social sciences that prioritise and valorise epistemologies of spatialised and lived experience. Drawing on Edward Soja’s notion of ‘third space’ the theme alludes to a ludic space between disciplinary constraints in which ideas, practices and methods can be explored and employed in experimental and creative ways. Soja’s invitation to conceive of spatialised experience differently informs a perceptual positioning in which considerations of the ‘spaces between’ designed, planned, organised and conceived spaces and everyday perceived, lived and practiced realities are housed. Considerations of what ‘lies between’ also frames the symposium’s exploration of subjective constructions of place and space that incorporate elements of improvisation, modification and self-determined acts of autonomy and agency as individuals interpret and re-imagine their lived environments according to their own needs, preferences and agendas.
Submission Deadline: Friday 10th February 2017
Paper presentations will be 20 mins in length, alternative formats (i.e. performances, lecture demonstrations, workshops) are also encouraged, please indicate your technical requirements clearly on the proposal.
Please submit abstracts (of no more than 250 words in length) and a short biography (100 words) attached to an email with the subject header: BETWEEN SPACES to
Dr. Vicky Hunter ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) & Dr. Andrew Wilford ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
Dr Victoria Hunter
Senior Lecturer in Dance
Dance Department
University of Chichester
For details of my edited volume 'Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Choreography' follow this link:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moving-Sites-Investigating-Site-Specific-Performance/dp/0415713250/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1430142634&sr=1-1&keywords=moving+sites
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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 12:49:46 +0000
From: Avril Maddrell <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Fw: GPC - Annual Award for New and Emerging Scholars, 2017
Dear Colleagues,
do please encourage emerging researchers in feminist geographies to apply for this GPC award - details below.
With thanks,
Avail Maddrell
(Co-Editor, Gender Place and Culture)
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From: Pamela Moss <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 15 December 2016 18:40
To: GEOGFEM ([log in to unmask])
Subject: GPC - Annual Award for New and Emerging Scholars, 2017
Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography Annual Award for New and Emerging Scholars, 2017
Application closing date: 27 January 2017
The editorial team of Gender, Place and Culture is pleased to announce an annual award valued at a maximum of US$1,500 for new and emerging scholars. The award is targeted at emerging researchers in feminist geographies who are trying to establish research careers and create research momentum. The purpose is to support the research programme of promising feminist geographers and to give an impetus to their careers. The applicant should be involved in independent research and not be merely part of a larger group's research project. Priority for this award will be given to current graduate students or faculty members within three years of receiving their PhD who are situated in partially or poorly funded positions, who work in departments where little or no money is available for conference participation and who have no recourse to grants from funding agencies such as the Economic and Social Research Council in the UK and the National Science Foundation in the USA or equivalent (if you currently hold one of these grants or have just completed one you will not be considered eligible for this award).
This award is intended to be used for attendance at an international conference of your choice, at which you will present a paper on a topic relating to feminist geography. The successful applicant is expected to use the award within one year of its receipt.
Applicants are asked to submit the following:
- an abstract of the conference paper (250-300 words) and conference information including, if possible, confirmation of acceptance of your paper;
- your CV;
- a paragraph outlining how your research contributes to feminist geography;
- a proposed budget (for accommodation, travel, conference fees, per diem, etc.);
- and a cover letter including your contact details (mailing address, email, and telephone number).
Please send your applications to the Managing Editor, Pamela Moss ([log in to unmask]), by 27 January 2017. A decision on the award will be made within 4 to 6 weeks of this deadline. Within one month of attending the conference the successful applicant is expected to submit receipts as well as a one page report.
Pamela Moss, PhD
Professor
Faculty of Human and Social Development
University of Victoria
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 2Y2
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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 10:14:20 -0500
From: Elizabeth Lunstrum <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Cfp: Militarization beyond the Battlefield - (CAG Conf, May 29 - June 2, 2017, Toronto)
Apologies for x-posting:
Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) Annual Conference
May 29 - June 2, 2017
York University, Toronto, Canada
Call for Papers:
*Militarization beyond the Battlefield****
*
Organized by Libby Lunstrum (York University) &
Emily Gilbert (University of Toronto)
We are currently witnessing the militarization and broader
securitization of areas of life not typically considered to fall within
the purview of military intervention. More precisely, military actors,
logics, techniques, and practices are moving into nominally civilian
spheres, or have been there all along resting beneath the proverbial
radar. These sites range from humanitarianism (Fassin and Pandolfi,
2011; Weizman, 2012; Zehfuss, 2012), development (Duffield, 2007),
disease (McCoy, 2016; Annas, 2016), urban space (Graham, 2012; Katz,
2007), and international borders (Rosas, 2016; Slack et al., 2016) to
nature conservation (Duffy, 2016; Lunstrum, 2014), responses to climate
change (Gilbert, 2012; Dunlap and Fairhead, 2014), and the
transformation of nature itself (Russell, 2001; Kosek, 2010). In this
panel, we seek to place a comparative spotlight on these transformations
with an aim of better understanding the broader militarization of
society unfolding around us.
Possible paper topics include:
·the various spaces of militarization and securitization beyond the
battlefield (including and/or moving beyond the spheres listed above)
·the various actors and interests behind these processes of
militarization/securitization
·the discourses used to authorize military and military-like
intervention within nominally civilian areas of life
·the connections across these practices and/or their salient differences
·the impacts of these practices in general
·how these impacts articulate with questions of race, class, gender,
sexuality, nationality, indigeneity, etc.
·the forms of resistance and creative reinvention used to reject and
rethink these spaces and practices
·and other factors that disrupt militarization or leave it an incomplete
project.
We invite rich empirical studies of individual sites or topics,
comparative investigations across different cases or themes, novel
theoretical frameworks, and/or innovative methodologies!
If interested, please send a short abstract (max. 200 words) to
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> and
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> by *Feb 10,
2017*.
Work cited:
Annas GJ. (2016) Ebola and Human Rights: Post-9/11 Public Health and
Safety in Epidemics. /American Journal of Law & Medicine/ 42: 333-355.
Duffield MR. (2007) /Development, security and unending war : governing
the world of peoples, /Cambridge: Polity.
Duffy R. (2016) War, by Conservation. /Geoforum/ 69: 238-248.
Dunlap A. and Fairhead J. (2014) The Militarisation and Marketisation of
Nature: An Alternative Lens to 'Climate-Conflict'. /Geopolitics/ 19:
937-961.
Fassin D. and Pandolfi M., ed. (2010) /Contemporary states of emergency:
the politics of military and humanitarian interventions/, Cambridge: MIT
Press.
Gilbert E. (2012) The Militarization of Climate Change. /Acme/ 11: 1-14.
Graham S. (2012) When Life Itself is War: On the Urbanization of
Military and Security Doctrine. /International Journal of Urban and
Regional Research/ 36: 136-155.
Katz C. (2007) Banal terrorism: Spatial fetishism and everyday
insecurity. In: Gregory D and Pred A (eds) /Violent geographies: Fear,
terror, and political violence./ New York: Routledge, 349-361.
Kosek J. (2010) Ecologies of Empire: On the New Uses of the Honeybee.
/Cultural Anthropology/ 25: 650–678.
Lunstrum E. (2014) Green militarization: Anti-poaching efforts and the
spatial contours of Kruger National Park. /Annals of the Association of
American Geographers/ 104: 816-832.
McCoy CA. (2016) SARS, pandemic influenza and Ebola: The disease control
styles of Britain and the United States. /Social Theory & Health/ 14: 1-17.
Rosas G. (2016) The Border Thickens: In-Securing Communities after IRCA.
/International Migration/ 54: 119-130.
Russell E. (2001) /War and nature: fighting humans and insects with
chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring, /Cambridge, NY: Cambridge
University Press.
Slack J, Martinez DE, Lee AE, et al. (2016) The Geography of Border
Militarization: Violence, Death and Health in Mexico and the United
States. /Journal of Latin American Geography/ 15: 7-32.
Weizman, E. (2012) /The least of all possible evils: humanitarian
violence from Arendt to Gaza/, London: Verso.
Zehfuss, M. (2012) Contemporary Western War and the Idea of Humanity.
/Environment/ /& Planning/ /D/: /Society and Space/ 30(5): 861-76.
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*Elizabeth (Libby) Lunstrum*
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
York University, Toronto, Canada
Website <http://www.yorku.ca/lunstrum/>
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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 16:59:47 +0000
From: Ian Bruff <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: New issue of ROAR - 'State of Control' - on authoritarian neoliberalism
Dear all,
You may be interested in a new issue of ROAR
<https://roarmag.org/2016/12/18/issue-4-state-control-now-released/>
entitled 'State of Control', which looks at various new methodologies of
state control and the innovative forms of resistance emerging against them.
Tracing the contours of authoritarian neoliberalism as it rears its ugly
head across the globe, it offers both a dystopian assessment of our current
political moment, as well as a radical vision for collective liberation and
social transformation beyond the state of control. If everything we were
once supposed to fear about communism has now come true under capitalism,
the time may be ripe to start thinking of democratic anti-capitalist
alternatives.
Essays cover themes such as the myth of free markets, drones, mass
surveillance, crises of democracy, awakenings and rebellions.
ROAR is an independent journal of the radical imagination providing
grassroots perspectives from the front-lines of the global struggle for
real democracy.
Best wishes,
Ian
Ian Bruff, Lecturer in European Politics, University of Manchester,
see my Manchester
homepage <http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/ian.bruff/>
Managing Editor of the Transforming Capitalism
<http://www.rowmaninternational.com/series/transforming-capitalism> book
series
*Recent publications:*
'Expressions of repressed violence: authoritarian neoliberalism in
contemporary capitalism', Progress in Political Economy blog post
<http://ppesydney.net/expressions-repressed-violence-authoritarian-neoliberalism-contemporary-capitalism/>
'Neoliberalism and authoritarianism', Handbook of Neoliberalism volume
<https://www.routledge.com/The-Handbook-of-Neoliberalism/Springer-Birch-MacLeavy/p/book/9781138844001>
'Constitutionalizing austerity, disciplining the household: masculine norms
of competitiveness and the crisis of social reproduction in the Eurozone',
Scandalous Economics volume
<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/scandalous-economics-9780190204242?cc=gb&lang=en&#>
Critical International Political Economy: Dialogue, Debate and Dissensus
volume <http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9780230280304#reviews>, now out in
paperback
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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 17:02:50 +0000
From: Andy Inch <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Transformative Knowledge for an era of Planetary Urbanization? Workshop in Lisbon, 10th July 2017
With apologies for cross-posting. Please see below details of a one-day workshop here in Lisbon next July that may be of interest to some on the list.
Best,
Andy
Transformative Knowledge for an era of Planetary Urbanization?
Questioning the role of social sciences and humanities from an interdisciplinary perspective
Pre-Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) one-day seminar
Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-ULisboa)
An INTREPID COST-Action workshop
11.00am-5.30pm, 10th July 2017 (followed by drinks/ pre-arranged dinner)
Submission of motivation letters by 15th March 2017
Keynote speakers:
* Heather Campbell (University of Sheffield)
* Second keynote TBC
Organisation:
* This is an INTREPID COST action initiative (web<http://www.intrepid-cost.eu/>), co-organised by the Environment, Territory, Society research group at ICS-ULisboa (web<http://www.ics.ulisboa.pt/instituto/?doc=36000000001&ln=e&mm=3&mnid=2&ctmid=2>) and the AESOP Young Academics Network (web<http://www.aesop-youngacademics.net/>).
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in so many ways.
The point, however, is to change it
(Karl Marx, Theses On Feuerbach, XI)
[T]he scientific study of and training in creative conceptual and practical thinking on the relation between society and environment at various territorial levels and in the search, development and advancement of opportunities for purposeful intervention in that relation to ensure sustainable development
(AESOP, 1995)
A few decades ago, Henri Lefebvre (1970) prophesied that human society, under capitalist organisation, would inevitably become entirely urbanised. If, as many argue, that moment has arrived and we live an age of ‘planetary urbanisation’ (Brenner, 2013; Buckley and Strauss, 2016), the problem(s) of the urban – the ‘urban question’ (Castells, 1972; Merrifield, 2012) – are amongst the central challenges facing the world. From a different perspective, the concept of the ‘Anthropocene’, has popularised the idea that mankind has become a planetary force (Crutzen and Stoermer, 2000). Given its dominant urban form, the Anthropocene’s sustainability becomes increasingly a matter of urban sustainability, and that is a major 21st century challenge. The New Urban Agenda by UN-Habitat (2016) summarises the main obstacles to sustainable urban development as: ‘the persistence of multiple forms of poverty, growing inequalities, and environmental degradation […], with social and economic exclusion and spatial segregation often an irrefutable reality in cities and human settlements’.
If awareness of ongoing climatic change has generated growing public concern, there nonetheless seems to be widespread uncertainty that environmental (and hence social and economic) disasters can be avoided. Prevailing commitment to increasingly far-reaching ‘techno-fixes’ seem to either confirm such, potentially dystopian, pessimimism (see Klein, 2014), or appeal to a utopian ideal under the notions of smart and intelligent cities (de Jong et al., 2015).
This one-day seminar starts from the idea that the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) are crucial to produce and disseminate the knowledge necessary to envision and collaboratively shape ‘sustainable’ futures, avoiding the traps of dystopian and anti-utopian developments. However, at present, mainstream research and education approaches seem ill-equipped to address the major economic, environmental and societal challenges generated by contemporary urbanisation. The social sciences, for example, are dominated by an ‘entrenched empiricism’ (Brenner and Schmid, 2013) that prevents the production of novel, and theoretically/critically informed, paradigms. Disciplinary barriers meanwhile stymie the creation of real inter- and trans-disciplinary knowledge (Harkavy, 2006; Petts et al, 2008; Davoudi, 2010). All in all, SSH have been too focused on studying the past and present (Appadurai, 2013; Adam, 2009) and risk missing the opportunity to shape a ‘sustainable’ future (Bina et al, 2016a).
This certainly seems to be true of urban studies, an inherently interdisciplinary field (AESOP, 2009), but one in which standard practices fall short of the holistic approaches necessary to equip the next generation with the methodological and conceptual capacities to shape sustainable futures (Bina et al, 2016b). Urban disciplines and mainstream SSH therefore urgently need to develop new approaches if they are to contribute positively to the creation of just and sustainable urban futures (Dimitrova, 2014; UN-Habitat, 2009).
This seminar aims to bring together a group of particularly early and mid-career scholars to discuss the kinds of transformative knowledge, pedagogy and practice required to achieve sustainable development in an era of planetary urbanization. We invite scholars from (and beyond) all areas of urban studies and SSH linked to urban issues, including, but not limited to, planning, architecture, urban design, urban geography; and economics, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, comparative literature, cultural studies, to participate.
The session will critically consider the strengths and weaknesses of SSH approaches, and how they might be reconfigured. Key issues to be considered will include at least two of the following themes:
* challenges and potentials of shaping new interdisciplinary agendas in research and education (especially from the perspective of early career researchers);
* role of theory in the production of the urban, and the value of critical approaches (cf. Brenner, 2009; Marcuse, 2010);
* search for new epistemological and methodological approaches – ‘mondialisation’ (Lévy, 2008), beyond divides such as local/global (Healey, 2012), West/South (Santos, 2010) and human/nature (Moore, 2015), and the potential of comparative studies for the production of new knowledges (Robinson, 2016);
* role of SSH in envisioning and shaping futures – including co-production (Watson, 2014; Palmer and Walasek, 2016; Campbell and Vanderhoven, 2016), and foresight methods for exploring urban futures (Güell and Lopez 2016; Hopkins and Zapata, 2007; Freestone, 2012; Phdungsilp 2011).
The seminar will be participatory in format, with two keynote addresses and a core discussion in the form of world café. It is intended that discussion will feed directly into a linked roundtable discussion proposed as part of the main Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) conference that will run from the 11-14 of July in Lisbon. Building on a brief Position Paper by the organising team to be circulated in advance to participants, it is anticipated the session will also generate collective written outputs in a suitable international journal.
The seminar is free of costs to the participants. To be considered for the seminar, please submit by 15th March 2017 a letter of motivation (max 2 pages A4) to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> AND [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, stating what your background and researcher/education interests are, as well as what perspective and topics you want to bring to the discussion. 20 participants will be selected, with priority given to early- and mid-career, scholars – at least 5 seats will be reserved to YA members. Notice will be given by early April.
It is currently expected that we will be able to fund a number of travel bursaries (which would cover approximately the cost of travel and one-night accommodation), with priority given to early-career scholars from universities in low- and middle-income countries (more information by February 2017) – with a proportion reserved for YA members. If you want to apply for the scholarship, please submit a letter stating why you think it should be awarded to you.
Works cited
Adam, B.E. (2008). Future matters: Futures known, created and minded<http://orca.cf.ac.uk/18774>. Twenty-First Century Society, 3(2), 111-116.
AESOP (Association of the European Schools of Planning) (1995). Core requirements for a high quality European planning education. Available at: www.aesop-planning.eu/en_GB/core-curriculum<http://www.aesop-planning.eu/en_GB/core-curriculum>.
Appadurai, A. (2013). The future as a cultural fact: Essays on the global condition. London: Verso.
Bina, O., Balula, L., Varanda, M. and Fokdal, J. (2016a). Urban studies and the challenge of embedding sustainability: A review of international master programmes. Journal of Cleaner Production, 137, 330-346.
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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 19:57:06 +0000
From: Suchith Anand <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Seasons Greetings from GeoForAll
<!--#yiv6990579055 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}-->Dear All,
As 2016 is nearly over, i wish to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for your support and contributions which helped to build up the “GeoFor All” initiative. Our thanks to an incredible 2016. 2016 has been an important year for us as it exactly 10 years ago we started putting initial ideas for Open Geospatial Science. We went through lot of hardships and struggles (some laughed at us initially!) but it has been an incredibly amazing journey over the last decade.
We had to take this one step at a time to make this possible . We started by building the community (started workshops, conferences), then we started establishing dedicated open source research labs in universities so we have universities globally invested in the idea, then we started dedicated journals etc for expanding the discipline and now we are working on implementing our vision 2030.
Geospatial Science = Open Geospatial Science
Details at http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/12/seasons-greetings-from-geoforall/
On behalf of everyone at “GeoForAll” initiative, we wish you and your families very happy holidays and Happy New Year 2017.
May the FOSS be with everyone...
Best wishes,
Suchith
Dr. Suchith Anand
http://www.geoforall.org/
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org
GeoForAll - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science
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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 15:41:36 -0500
From: Hillary Shaw <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Another tale of Western treachery on China
No, not the Opium war, Not the Unequal Treaties. The Shantung Question, 1919.
Imagine, for the English, that in an alternative timeline, Queen Victoria had become increasingly frail and that, under her weak and ineffective leadership the rapidly industrialising Germans had seized the county of Kent, maybe also the Hastings area too - let's call it the District of Kentung. All in the interests of securing German naval access to the southern Atlantic, although 'Kentung' contains sites crucial to English culture, such as Canterbury and the Battle of Hastings. Now it's 1914 and Germany and France are at war - Britain sends 200,000 troops to assist the French against Berlin. Germany loses. China mediates the Treaty of Versailles - and Kentung comes under, not English sovereignty, but is handed to France, after all it is rich in Norman historical connections. How would the English feel? Riots in London, maybe?
Well Shantung was the birthplace of Confucius, and guess what happened to the German colony of Shantung in 1919, after China had sent 200,000 troops to assist the Allies, after the close of World War One, see the entry for 4 May 1919 at http://fooddeserts.org/images/000ChinJapKor.htm
Dr Hillary J. Shaw
Director and Senior Research Consultant
Shaw Food Solutions
Newport
Shropshire
TF10 8QE
www.fooddeserts.org
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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:36:15 +0100
From: Emanuele Giordano <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP: Exploring the geographies of the Mediterranean urban night - CGI Rome 2017
*Call for participation:*
*Exploring the geographies of the Mediterranean urban night*
XXXII Congresso geografico italiano
Rome, Italy, 7-10 June 2017
*http://www.congressogeografico.it/ <http://www.congressogeografico.it/>*
Past centuries have seen the progressive colonization of the urban night by
a growing number of economic, social and cultural activities, leading to
some historians to talk about a ‘nocturnalization’ of western society
(Koslofsky, 2011). The urban night has received limited attention in the
social sciences, however. Only in recent decades this has gradually started
to change and a growing number of studies have begun to question the
dynamics that characterize the urban night in the contemporary city. In the
Anglo-Saxon literature, from the 1990s onwards, the initial focus was on
the increasing importance of leisure activities and alcohol consumption.
More recently, the term ‘night-time economy’ has served to illustrate the
links between nightlife, profitability and inter-urban competitiveness
(Roberts and Eldridge, 2009). The study of the urban night has become
progressively enriched and new research fronts have opened, such as
temporal urban planning (Mallet, 2014), geographies of light pollution
(Challéat, 2010), the relation between NTE and gentrification (Nofre et
al., forthcoming) and the urban night and climate change. However, while
these developments have affected most European countries, the existing
literature has focused primarily on Northern Europe. The Mediterranean
region, including Italy, has been seldom considered. In this context, there
is a need to explore how the status of the urban night has changed in the
Mediterranean region, especially from the perspective of Italian
geographers. We are looking for cross-disciplinary and transnational papers
that freely and openly discuss theoretical, conceptual and empirical
results related to the changing status of urban night. Particular attention
will be given to transnational papers that offer a comparative analysis
among different Mediterranean areas or between the Mediterranean region and
other parts of Europe .
*Session organisers:*
Emanuele Giordano, UMR 5281 ART-Dev Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3;
Gabriele Manella, Università di Bologna.
*Abstracts:*
Those interested in participating are requested to submit a 3000 characters
abstract online ( http://www.congressogeografico.it/sessione/s06/ ),
clicking on “proponi un abstract” no later than 25 February 2017.
For futher information please contact Emanuele Giordano (
[log in to unmask])
*Emanuele Giordano*
*Doctorant en Géographie et Aménagement de l’Espace*
Laboratoire ART-Dev UMR 5281, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier
Site Saint-Charles, Route de Mende
34199 Montpellier cedex 5
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https://univ-montp3.academia.edu/EmanueleGiordano
<https://fr.linkedin.com/in/emanuele-giordano-a1b192a3>
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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 16:55:31 -0500
From: Christopher Neubert <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Feminist Geography 2017 - CFP: Demographic fantasies and fever dreams: taco trucks, burkini bans, and the “basket of deplorables”
Please consider submitting to this session for the 2017 Feminist
Geography Conference, May 18-20, in Chapel Hill. The full text is below,
and a link is available here:
https://feministgeography.org/demographic-fantasies-and-fever-dreams-taco-trucks-burkini-bans-and-the-basket-of-deplorables/
<https://feministgeography.org/demographic-fantasies-and-fever-dreams-taco-trucks-burkini-bans-and-the-basket-of-deplorables/>
The deadline for submission is January 31.
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*Demographic fantasies and fever dreams: taco trucks, burkini bans, and
the “basket of deplorables”*
In September 2016, we sent out a call for papers to explore the role
of*demographic fever dreams and fantasies in political life*. This was
sparked by the odd specificity of some of the US campaign rhetoric – an
imaginary that called to life a deluge of dreams and fantasies: that
migration would result in an epidemic of “taco trucks on every corner”
[1] and that an Obama-sponsored invasion of lesbian farmers would
undermine red state agricultural strongholds,[2] as well as Clinton’s
description of a “basket of deplorables” containing half of all Trump
voters. We discussed these as fever dreams because of their vivid
specificity and seeming detachment from demographic data with a
simultaneous obsession with demography. We describe these as fever
dreams and fantasies because of their *strikingly specific and
dream-state* features that leap from numerical measures and policy into
a surreal and multivalent landscape of threat…or delight.
We find parallels with other forms of demographic fantasies that lead to
bans on shariah law, on the burkini, or on certain forms of hijab, even
in places where these are a remote possibility or a rare practice.
Recent survey research demonstrates that residents of the European Union
greatly overstate the Muslim population residing in the UE – for
instance, residents of France estimated that 31% of the French
population is Muslim, when research suggests the population is actually
at 7.5%. How does this imagined demography play into concern about
burkinis, hijab, and minarets? In the time since the election in the
United States, we have again been taken by the new ways that a
demographic imaginary of the “white working class,” becomes a fetishized
explanation for a range of complex processes, as residents and observers
of US electoral politics search for a demographic explanation. We could
perhaps add phenomena such as “Pantsuit nation,” which imagines or
perhaps even materializes a subterranean world of feminists, existing,
surviving, and resisting Trump’s America.
With this paper session, we build on a session to be convened at AAG in
collaboration with Joshua Inwood and Carolyn Gallaher. Following recent
calls for critical and feminist human geographers to take demographic
change seriously, we are inviting submissions about *demographic fever
dreams and fantasies*. We’re interested in the work that they do, the
danger that they pose to building solidarity across difference, but also
the potential for play and subversion that is embedded in their vivid
specificity. Traditionally, critical human geography has overlooked or
ignored demographic change, and yet global demographic shifts are
animating and inspiring political movements worldwide. Often, these
shifts are mobilized in political discourses through specific
demographic fantasies to instill anxiety and fear of perceived threats
to the success of nations. These fantasies rely on normative ideas of
gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religious difference, but also
invent compelling narrative justifications for those ideas and a means
for them to mutate and multiply.
Demographic fantasies are not uniform across contexts – for instance,
while in the US context we find fear-based fantasies of demographic
decline or resurgence, in Turkey we note a demographic fantasy of young
pious economic and cultural resurgence. Both these tropes rely on a
common rhetoric of marginalization: that “we” are the majority but the
political elite has not listened, that after “we” have been oppressed
for years, it is now time to rise. As we consider the political purpose
of these demographic fantasies, the fears underlying them, and how the
vivid imagery ties into fears of white masculine decline and panic, we
wonder how we can unravel these oddly specific imaginaries. In each of
these instances, a vivid and fantastic fiction is used by figures with
political power to amplify, imagine, and obscure demographic patterns of
migration, birth, or mortality to consolidate political power or to
dismiss or undermine class tensions and create fictions communities of
homogeneity.
While it is easy to be smugly dismissive of fears about an unlikely
takeover by “others,” here we hope to more carefully consider the
content, deployment, and mechanisms of these vivid demographic
imaginaries of threat. In so doing, we hope to build on, but also
disrupt and complicate theoretical explorations in feminist political
geography, which evoke the embodied life of territory and borders and
the political life of demography. We invite papers exploring demographic
fantasies through political speech, popular culture, government policy,
or other venues, and engaging with questions such as the following (but
not limited to these):
* What political and cultural work do demographic fantasies do, and
how do they do it?
* What role do gendered, sexualized, and racialized body politics play
in demographic fantasies?
* What are effective responses to demographic fantasies? What is the
potential for play and subversion (e.g., the social media responses
to taco trucks on every corner, and the “basket of adorables”)? How
might we combat the violence these nationalist fantasies engender,
particularly in a “post-fact” media context?
* How do demographic fever dreams travel across contexts and political
lines?
* How do demographic fantasies explicitly or implicitly engage with
temporal and metanarratives and geographic imaginaries (such as the
dangerous and uncertain future, and porous borders)?
* How might we respond to or understand the flights of demographic
fantasy that emerge from rumors, exaggerations, or denials of
seemingly incontestable truths? Especially when drawing attention to
the fallacy only fuels the fantasy?
Please send abstracts to Sara Smith ([log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>), Banu Gökarıksel ([log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>), and Chris Neubert ([log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>), by January 31st, 2017.
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[1] Chokshi, Niraj. September 2, 2016. “‘Taco trucks on every corner’:
Trump supporter’s anti-immigration warning” New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/us/politics/taco-trucks-on-every-corner-trump-supporters-anti-immigration-warning.html?_r=0
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/us/politics/taco-trucks-on-every-corner-trump-supporters-anti-immigration-warning.html?_r=0>
[2] Erbentraut, Joseph. September 4, 2016. “These lesbian farmers aren’t
here to take over America. They want to grow it.” Huffington Post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lesbian-farmers-rush-limbaugh_us_57c879d6e4b0e60d31ddf5c0
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lesbian-farmers-rush-limbaugh_us_57c879d6e4b0e60d31ddf5c0>
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Christopher Neubert
Department of Geography
UNC-Chapel Hill
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