Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers
23-27 March 2023, Denver, CO, USA
Session Type: Paper
Description
Over the last decades, some major-league cities have become influential arenas of comparison, learning and inspiration. They have come to be interconnected with successful policies that have been benchmarked, learned and ultimately transferred and adapted to multiple urban contexts by a wide range of policy mobilizers. Examples range from Boulder and San Francisco as prolific creative hubs or New York City’s ‘zero-tolerance’ policies and business improvement districts to Melbourne’s drug consumption policy, Wellington’s environmental measures and Berlin’s housing policies.
These academic debates on the trans-urban comparison and urban policy mobilities have largely drawn their analytical and methodological attention to urban contexts in the ‘Global North’. This AAG 2023 session stands as an invitation to decenter such academic debates and aims to embrace comparative and critical dialogues that bring together practices from a wide range of urban contexts that are not limited to ‘Global North’ geographies and policymaking.
This session aims to provide a platform of dialogue through which geographers from multiple and dispersed spatialities can discuss innovative conceptual, methodological and empirical approaches and contribute to recent reflections on urban governance and urban policies mobilities issues in multiple geographical contexts that have been relatively understated in the academic debate. Topics of this session may include, but are not limited to:
▪ Urban benchmarking and comparison and urban rankings and measuring
▪ Trans-local mobility of urban policies between North-South, South-North and South-South contexts
▪ Urban policy failure and immobility between North-South, South-North and South-South contexts
▪ Emerging original urban policies in ‘Global South’ contexts and limits to its mobility
▪ Urban politics of policy mobility and immobility
▪ Urban policy experimentation
▪ Comparative urban policy methodologies
We invite scholars who are coming from, or are based in, a wide range of geographical regions to submit their contributions to this session. Contributions can be focused on transversal reflections (e.g. general analysis of policy mobilities, discussion of comparative methodologies) or on particular processes (e.g. urban environment, economic development, tourism incentives and touristification control, etc.). Scholars from across different career trajectories (PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, early-career researchers and established scholars) are strongly encouraged to submit their new or ongoing research related to the topics listed above.
If you are interested in participating in this session, please submit to both organizers of the session by November 6th:
▪ A copy of the abstract (maximum 250 words), which should clearly state your paper's purpose, methods, results and conclusions.
▪ Your contact information by submitting your presenter identification number (PIN).
Diogo Gaspar Silva
Centre for Geographical Studies
Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning
University of Lisbon, Portugal
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Jorge Malheiros
Centre for Geographical Studies
Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning
University of Lisbon, Portugal
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We look forward to receiving your abstracts!
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