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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.
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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:18:55 +0100 (BST)
From: Joel Outtes <[log in to unmask]>
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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.
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