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Hi everyone, Apologies for cross-posting - we've just had someone pull out of our second round of papers for this session. If anyone is still looking for a session to join and feels this one might be a good fit you are most welcome to join us. Details below. Best, Michelle --------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: AAG 2012, New York, 24th - 28th February Session Title: LABOUR AND THE CITY: WORK, EMPLOYMENT AND URBAN LIFE Session Organizers: Michelle Buckley (University of Oxford) and Esther Rootham (University of Oxford) Sponsored by the Urban Geography Specialty Group Following efforts by scholars such as Samers (2002), Wills et al. (2009) and Malecki and Ewers (2008) to bring questions of work, employment and labour rights into conversation with urban theory and research, this session invites contributions that explore the linkages between the fields of labour geography and urban geography. While these realms of geographical inquiry are often concerned with broadly similar questions - such as the social impacts of capitalist restructuring, class formation and class identity(ies), service sector-based economic change, neoliberalization and inequality, citizenship and rights formation - the ways that working life and urban life intersect deserves greater attention and development. We welcome papers that engage with a range of ideas and questions in this regard, including but not limited to: • the connections between urban rights and labour rights • theorizations of informality in urban and labour studies • citizenship, employment and the right to the city • embodiment and the urban politics of work • organized labour and struggles over urban space • labour-based interventions on global city theory or conceptualizations of neoliberal urbanism • (im)migrant work in urban labour markets • employment and urban social policies • the role of local states in shaping labour markets • urban policy circuitry and mobilities and the micro-politics of urban life Please submit a 250-word abstract to Michelle Buckley ([log in to unmask]) and Esther Rootham ([log in to unmask]).