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2nd Call for papers
The Inaugural Nordic Geographers Meeting, 10-14 May 2005, Lund, Sweden
Conference Web Page: http://www.ngm.cc/
Deadline for abstracts: 20 February 2005; send them to both
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note that the last day for registering is 20 February.
Session(s): Urban geographies of post-communist states
The demise of the economic order of central planning in the countries of Central
and Eastern Europe and of the Former Soviet Union has opened up a new research
agenda for social scientists interested in cities. The purpose of this
session(s) is to gather contributions from urban geographers from the Nordic
countries and beyond. Fifteen years have gone since the pulverization of the
iron curtain between East and West. What has happened in the set of
post-socialist cities and their inhabitants since then? How important is the
legacy of a centrally planned past? What impact has the economic transition had
on the social, spatial and socio-spatial structure of cities? In what
directions are the political, social and cultural transformations developing?
What is the impact on the everyday spatialities and lifeworlds? How are
environmental legacies being tackled, and what new challenges have appeared?
Some of the topics which we would like to cover are as follows, but we welcome
paper proposals within a variety of themes related to the post-communist urban
setting:
* Urban spatial structure before and after 1989 (1991)
* Urbanization and settlement structure (including suburbanization,
counter-urbanization and the like)
* Residential Segregation
* Gentrification and Urban Renewal
* Urban livelihoods, everyday economies and survival strategies
* Urban poverty alleviation strategies
* Papers on methodology
* Inter-urban competition (competitiveness of cities)
* Urban governance and political structure
* Urban environmental management
* Gender perspectives on the post-communist city
* Demographic challenges faced by the post-communist city
* Children and the post-communist city
* Maps, mapping practices and cartography
The language of the sessions will be English, although presentations in Russian
may be allowed if agreed in advance.
Conveners:
Thomas Borén
Dept. of Human Geography
Stockholm University
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Michael Gentile
Dept. of Social and Economic Geography
Uppsala University
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