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Dear All, Apologies for cross posting. I am pleased to let you know that a major publisher has expressed interest in an edited collection from this session. The session is co-sponsored by DARG, RGRG and PERG. Prof. Katherine Gough (Loughborough University) will be the discussant. The deadline for submitting abstracts is Friday, 7th February, but I will appreciate email contact in the first instance if you are planning to submit an abstract. Please distribute widely. Best wishes, Rohit Madan ********************************************************** CfP for Paper Session in the RGS-IBG 2014 Annual Meeting, London, 26th – 29th August 2014. ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN PERI-URBAN VILLAGES: UNDERSTANDING EMPOWERMENT AND MARGINALIZATION IN THE URBANIZING GLOBAL SOUTH Organizer: Rohit Madan (Cardiff University, UK); Discussant: Prof. Katherine Gough (Loughborough University) Co-sponsored by DARG (Developing Areas Research Group), RGRG (Rural Geographies Research Group) and PERG (Planning and Environment Research Group) In the global south urbanization is changing the nature of villages, and rural entrepreneurs play an important part in this. Entrepreneurial success requires good roads, labour, communications, technology, skills and (relatively) cheap land (Buciega et al 2009, Tacoli 2006), and these are readily available in the peri-urban fringe, where urbanization is most rapid. This is considered "modernization" and "progress" – a neo-liberal mindset within which the private entrepreneur is embedded. Private entrepreneurship has been traditionally seen as vital in achieving poverty alleviation – there are several examples of this in studies from: China (Lin 2006, Ma 2002), Tanzania (Lanjouw et al 2001), Indonesia (Leinbach 2003), and India (Eapen 2001), amongst many others. Often government policies have tried to increase the proportion of non-cultivation employment in rural areas to achieve this (Rigg 2006). On the surface entrepreneurship suggests innovation, collaboration and partnerships between the state, civil society and private sector, however, de-regulation gives entrepreneurs increased access over human/natural resources. In the peri-urban fringe therefore the entrepreneur has greater capacity to affect both empowerment and marginalization of rural communities (Kay 2002, Xu and Tan 2002). This paper session aims to theorize relationships between rural-entrepreneurship and urbanization, shifting the spotlight away from solely the "urban" or the "rural", but also away from simplistic preconceptions that see urbanization within binary frameworks. It aims to converge strands addressing how entrepreneurship transforms individuals and the community, but also at national/global levels – on how both governance and everyday life are transformed. This session welcomes papers connecting urbanization with rural entrepreneurship that deal with (but are not limited to) the following themes: • How environmental and social justice are linked with entrepreneurship in the global south? • How entrepreneurship shapes (and is shaped by) multi-level governance and policy? • How can we theorize the agrarian dimensions of entrepreneurship (i.e. food, labour, multifunctionality, etc.)? • How is entrepreneurship co-produced (through the nature/type of individual - institutional interactions)? • How can we theorize the relationships between learning/education and entrepreneurship? • How does entrepreneurship relate to rural-urban linkages and urbanization? • Typologies and wider discussions / debates around entrepreneurship? Deadline for submitting abstracts is 7th February 2014 Please send abstracts up to a maximum of 250 words and proposed titles (clearly stating name, institution, and contact details) to Rohit Madan ([log in to unmask]). _______________________________________________________ [log in to unmask] An urban geography discussion and announcement forum List Archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/URB-GEOG-FORUM Maintained by: RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group UGRG Home Page: http://www.urban-geography.org.uk