Dear Colleague, If you submitted a paper abstract for the session below and I did not contact you through your personnel e-mail, please do send your abstract again as soon as possible. My computer with your proposal crashed and I lost your abstract. Sorry about that. If you did not send an abstract and still want to participate in one of my sessions, please send your abstract to me as an e-mail attachment following the rules of the AAG (www.aag.org) until Tuesday the 23rd of July. Cordially, Joel Outtes Dr Joel Outtes, Oriel College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 4EW, United Kingdom. E-mail: [log in to unmask] ATTENTION: If this e-mail bounces in the future, please send your e-mail again to [log in to unmask], if it does not, please continue using the current one. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:18:55 +0100 (BST) From: Joel Outtes <[log in to unmask]> To: Undisclosed recipients: ; Subject: CFP: Cities in Less Developed Areas, AAG2002, Los Angeles, 03/2002. CFP: Cities in Less Developed Areas, AAG 2002. Cities in Less Developed Areas. AAG Conference, Los Angeles, March 19-23, 2002. Call for Papers. This will be a session concerned with the most diverse aspects of cities and urban environments in less developed areas of the world. Although the point of departure for the debate is the idea of uneven development and its multiple implications, other approaches will also be accepted. The panel aims to discuss subjects such as Global cities in less developed areas of developed and less developed countries Globalisation and social exclusion Urban environmental problems and management Urban governance Historical accounts of urban development Capital scarcity, speed of flows and the making of peripheral areas Social movements and social justice Privatisation and public-private partnerships in urban services Gentrification and housing markets Urban tribes and urban identities Social struggles for scarce resources Urban poverty and survival strategies Criminality and the geography of violence and drug consumption Morphological and typological architectural and urban patterns Space, marginality, non-cartesian subjectivies and sexuality Traffic networks and the informational society Informal alternative transportation and the new geography of jitneys Learned (mis)representations of urban phenomena and informal settlements The lexicography of peripheral spaces Post-colonialism and less developed areas You are most welcome to send a proposal with title, 250 words abstract following the rules of the AAG for the 2002 meeting (www.aag.org), your name and institutional affiliation until June 30, 2001 by e-mail only to Dr Joel Outtes, Oriel College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 4EW, Visiting Fellow, Oxford Brookes University United Kingdom. E-mail: [log in to unmask] ATTENTION: If this e-mail bounces in the future, please send your e-mail again to [log in to unmask]