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*The 8th Nordic Geographers Meeting in Trondheim, Norway, June 16 – 19 2019* *Planning for sustainable urban futures: transgressing the North-South boundaries in theory and practice* Many countries in the so-called Global South have a long experience of participatory processes and action in addressing inequality and informality. These are also emergent topics in Northern dominated literature and practice, e.g. in area based initiatives targeting deprived urban neighbourhoods or in responses within planning towards increasingly cultural diverse cities. Despite this, much of the theoretical work in urban scholarship is still firmly located in the experience of Euro-America, built on a handful of metropolitan cities (Watson, 2009; Healy, 2011; Parnell and Oldfield, 2014; Robinson and Roy, 2016). There also continues to be a theoretical divide in planning education and research between researchers working within Northern contexts and researchers working with the Global South. This paper session asks how we can transcend the North-South divides in urban research, education and practice to find better ways to plan for sustainable urban futures; Is there still a "Global North" and a “Global South" to talk about, or are we moving towards a more issue-based inquiry? What kind of theories and practices can be transferred across contexts, and what would be the benefit of such North-South dialogues? What are the methodological implications of the ‘southern’ turn in urban theory in terms of how we theorise and from where and with whom? To address these questions, we particularly welcome contributions that discuss urban upgrading, citizen participation, network governance, and/or informality from a global perspective. The session is organized by Hilde N. Rørtveit, Department of Geography, NTNU; Rolee Aranya and Hilde Refstie, Department of Architecture and Planning NTNU; and Marianne Millstein, Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, OsloMet. Abstracts can be submitted [log in to unmask] by December 10th 2018. Conference web page:https://www.ntnu.edu/geography/ngm-2019 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1