Thanks to those who sent an abstract after the call for papers on this list.
There will be three 'Globalization and World Cities' sessions at Pittsburgh
(see below).
Hope other list members can come along.
See you there.
AAG 2000 Pittsburgh - GLOBALIZATION AND WORLD CITIES SESSIONS
Organizers: Dr Richard Smith (Principal Contact), Dr Jon Beaverstock, &
Professor Peter Taylor
Sponsor: AAG Urban Geography Speciality Group
GLOBALIZATION AND WORLD CITIES SESSION I
Chair: Richard Smith (Leicester University) & Jon Beaverstock (Loughborough
University)
Richard Smith (Leicester University), Jon Beaverstock & Peter Taylor
(Loughborough University) "World city network: A new metageography?"
Erik Swngedouw & Guy Baeten (Oxford University) "Dancing with Titans and
Dwarfs: Elite power, global forces and the political economy of 'glocal'
development: Brussels's conundrum"
Scott Campbell (University of Michigan) "The changing role and identity of
capital cities in the global era"
Discussant: to be confirmed
GLOBALIZATION AND WORLD CITIES SESSION II
Chair: Richard Smith (Leicester University) & Jon Beaverstock (Loughborough
University)
Jenny Robinson (Open University) "Beyond global, world and mega-cities:
Development and the case for ordinary cities"
Maliq Simone (University of Witwatersrand) "On the 'Worlding' of cities in
Africa"
Kris Olds & Henry Wai-chung Yeung (National University of Singapore) "Global
cities and developmental states: Incompatible perspectives or long lost
siblings?"
Mike Crang (Durham University) "Riding the Dragon: Singapore's intelligent
island"
GLOBALIZATION AND WORLD CITIES SESSION III
Chair: Richard Smith (Leicester University) & Jon Beaverstock (Loughborough
University)
Jane Pollard, John Bryson, Nick Henry and Cheryl McEwan (Birmingham
University) "Globalisation from below: 'Birmingham - postcolonial workshop
of the world'"
Michael Samers (University of Liverpool) "Global cities, immigrants, and pol
itical participation"
Farhang Rouhani (University of Arizona) "Global media technologies, everyday
life, and the changing role of Tehran as a world city"
Niall Majury (University of Leeds) "Building on the sands of finance: world
cities and the spatial dynamics of investment banking"
Dr Richard Smith, PhD (Bristol),
Lecturer in Human Geography and GaWC Research Fellow,
Department of Geography, University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK.
Tel: +44 (0) 116 252 3845
Fax: +44 (0) 116 252 3854
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Home Page: www.geog.le.ac.uk/rgs10/webpages.html
GaWC: www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/gy/research/gawc.html
Global Observatory: www.stile.lboro.ac.uk/global.html
"The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but having
new eyes" (Marcel Proust)
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