Call for Papers: Urban Europe, Precarious Futures?
A joint conference in association with European Urban and Regional Studies
Event details
Some three-quarters of the European population live in urban areas, with more than 40 per cent living in cities (European Union, 2016). Cities and urban areas are drivers of innovation, economic growth and change; however, they also face major challenges around the provision of housing, inequality and poverty, energy, congestion and pollution.
Different scenarios for urban futures arising from climate change, technological shifts, big data, the changing world of work, political (in)stability and a range of other factors have variously painted a broad spectrum of utopian and dystopian visions. Similarly, rising uncertainties across aspects of economic and social life have increasingly led to growing discussions around the concept of precarity in different parts of urban experiences and from different disciplinary perspectives. Most recently, the Covid-19 crisis has clearly highlighted some of the fragilities of contemporary societies and cities
This conference will bring together contributions on urban precarity from a range of perspectives focused on analysis of the drivers of precarity, the important societal impacts, what it means for the future of urbanity, and identifying responses to ameliorating risks at different spatial scales.
The event will take place online from 9.30am to 4.30pm on the 2nd December.
Keynote speakers
• Professor Guy Baeten, Director, Institute for Urban Research, University of Malmo
• Professor Janette Webb, Professor of Sociology of Organisations, The University of Edinburgh; co-director of the UK Energy Research Centre
• Professor Jürgen Essletzbichler – Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience, Department of Socioeconomics, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Rising uncertainties across aspects of economic and social life have increasingly led to growing discussions around the concept of precarity in different parts of urban experiences and from different disciplinary perspectives. Most recently, the Covid-19 crisis has clearly highlighted some of the fragilities of contemporary societies and cities.
We invite paper submissions for a series of sessions which will focus on urban precarity from a range of perspectives and across different thematic areas (such as employment, environment, housing, health and governance). Submissions might include analysis of the drivers of precarity, the important societal impacts, what it means for the future of urbanity, and identifying responses to ameliorating risks at different spatial scales. We encourage the submission of papers which relate to different notions of precarity and risk in urban areas.
These include:
• Urban precarity and reimagined futures
• Precarious urban economies
• Precarious urban lives
• Precarious urban governance
• Precarious infrastructures
• Precarious cities
We also welcome submission of papers which provide a more systemic analysis of urban precarity across themes. The contributions will place the urban system in a central position in developing new understandings of the nature of precarity in contemporary European economies and societies.
To submit to the conference please send 500-750 word paper title and abstract to the conference organisers: Paul Sissons [log in to unmask]; David Jarvis [log in to unmask] and Jennifer Ferreira [log in to unmask]
The deadline for submissions is 16th October 2020
The conference is linked to a Special Issue of European Urban and Regional Studies Journal. For more information about the Call for Papers for the conference and special issue, please visit:
https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/about-us/research-events/2020/urban-europe-precarious-futures/
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