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Colleagues, I am truing to put together a bibliography on micro-territoriality/ies with no success in as much as the discourse on territorialities seems to concentrate on wider scales. Could anybody out there suggest items? I will be glad to post the results to the list. Thanks for any help, Joel Outtes Dr Joel Outtes, Head GEST-Group for the Study of Society and Territory (see info below) UFRGS-Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil _____ Call for International Collaboration in Research in Historical, Urban, Cultural, Economic and Political Geography GEST-Group for the Study of Society and Territory, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. GEST- The Group for the Study of Society and Territory, a research group based at UFRGS-The Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil, is interested in establishing agreements and collaborating with colleagues in other institutions, cities and countries. We can either be a South American and/or North American and even European "leg" of comparative research projects and/or have colleagues as partners in any of our projects. Our team has international mobility and language skills. We are also willing to collaborate with other colleagues applying for NEH, and/or NSF grants as well as other funding agencies worldwide such as the European Science Foundation. For instance, I received a message from the NSF representative for international collaboration with Brazil saying that they are prepared to fund research anywhere as long as there is/are USA-based colleagues willing to put research bids together with us at GEST. The same kind of relationship can be established with other funding agencies worldwide. We have several research projects, many with a strong historic component. We do accept new partners in these projects, where we have several research assistants. This is to say that if you want to propose your own project, discuss possibilities or if you want to become a partner in a comparative study with any of the projects below, which are obviously in different degrees of completion, we can explore options together. Please find below our description. GEST-Group for the Study of Society and Territory. GEST is an interdisciplinary research group based at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil; composed of professors, researchers, graduate and undergraduate students. GEST members work on subjects ranging from comparative projects with a transnational scope, to the History and Geography of Housing and Cities and the Spatial Dynamics of Crime. Other research interests in the group include economic restructuring, governance and their spatial impacts; residential and intra-metropolitan mobility; and the grape and the colonization of the Brazilian territory: A Geography of wine. GEST members have done empirical work in places such as Europe (Paris, Oxford, Cambridge, London, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Turin), the USA (Chicago, Washington, Milwaukee, New York, and Boston) and Latin America (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Recife, Porto Alegre, and Buenos Aires), as well as in several libraries and universities in all these locations. We are also interested in receiving foreign scholars to give lectures here. We recently received Prof. Shaul Krakover who gave a set of lectures on Spatial Cycles simultaneously translated into Portuguese, and can provide information about his stay here. We translate from English, French and Spanish. Please get in touch if you want to lecture or do research here. GEST research projects include: 1. Cities Representing the Nation: Planning and Nation-Building in Brazil in a Comparative Perspective (1855-2005). 2. At the Crossroad of Urban and Social Reform: The International Federation for Housing and Planning and the International Union of Local Authorities in a Comparative Perspective (1913-2005). 3. The Urban and Environmental History of the Porto Alegre and Caxias do Sul Metropolitan Regions, Brazil. 4. Spatial Dynamics of Crime in the Metropolitan Regions of Porto Alegre and Caxias do Sul: A Geography of Illegal Territories. 5. Geography of Wine: Grapes and the Colonization of Southern Brazil (c. 1875-2005). 6. Economic Restructuring and its Impacts in South America, Brazil and Rio Grande do Sul. 7. The History of Housing and Housing Policies in Brazil in a Comparative Perspective (c. 1850-2005). 8. Intra-Metropolitan Residential Mobility in the Regions of Porto Alegre and Caxias do Sul, Brazil (1886-2005). 9. Participative Democracy and Urban Planning in the Metropolitan Regions of Porto Alegre and Caxias do Sul. If you would like to establish any kind of collaboration with GEST and/or discuss possibilities, please write to us. Please feel free to forward this message to potential interested parts. Thank you for your time and consideration. Yours, Joel Outtes Prof. Dr Joel Outtes, DPhil (University of Oxford) Head, GEST-Group for the Study of Society and Territory UFRGS-Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul E-mail: [log in to unmask]