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RC21 Regional and Urban Development

The XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology will be held in Toronto July 15-21, 2018, and RC 21 (Regional and Urban Development) will be present as usual. 

Submission of abstracts will end on September 30, 2017 24:00 GMT. Please check our sessions at the following website: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/Symposium458.html


Sessions:


Author Meets Their Critics: Unequal Cities. the Challenge of Post-Industrial Transition in Times of Austerity

Biography and City

Climate Change and Urban Transformations

Ethnic Power in Metropolises: Local Channels and Responses

Ethnographies of Transnationalism, Gentrification, Displacement and Belonging: The Intersection of Lifestyle Migration/Residential Tourism and Urban Transformation

Housing Stigma

In Search for a Global Urban Justice Movement through Theory and Praxis

Looking at Urban Centres As Sites of Power

Migration and Regeneration: Rebuilding the Uneven City

Putting the Financialisation of Housing in the ‘Rights’ Place: A Multi-Scalar Perspective

Reappraising Governance and Urban Development: Habitat III & the New Urban Agenda

The Future of Western Capitalism. Global Forces and Local Challenges

The Geography of Profits and Politics – How Developers Shape Urban Development and Policy Making

The Power Struggle over Urban Space: Spatial Violence and (In)Justice

The Transformative Turn in Urban Studies: The Sdgs, the New Urban Agenda and the Paris Agreement and their Impact on Urban Sociology and Planning

Urban Violence and Criminality

If you are interested in presenting a paper, please submit an abstract on-line before the deadline

of September 30, 2017.

For more details, please see Abstract submission guidelines
http://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/toronto-2018/call-for-abstracts/