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Dear colleagues,
Please find below a call for abstracts for a stream at the
2019 RC21 Conference in Delhi that I am co-organizing with Monika Grubbauer.
Call for Abstracts:
RC21 conference ‘In and Beyond the City: Emerging Ontologies, Persistent Challenges and Hopeful Futures’, September 18th – 21st , 2019
Conveners: Monika Grubbauer and Hanna Hilbrandt
Disentangling global action agendas and urban development strategies:
‘Truth regimes’ of development, private financial interest, and urban sustainable growth
Much has been written about the influence of finance on the urban development of Euro-American cities. Today financial markets also appear to be expanding southwards,
into the ‘rising’ cities of Asia, Africa or Latin America in order to invest in their infrastructures, land, property and real estate (Halbert and Rouanet, 2013; Goodfellow, 2017).
At the same time, scholars have documented the expansion of earlier development programs through a new agenda of financial inclusion in mainstream development policy (Soederberg, 2013; Mader, 2017). Actors such as charities, business communities, city networks
or consultancies work alongside multi-national development institutions to foster financial expansion, partly replacing ‘classical’ development policies of direct partnering and financial aid (Carroll and Jarvis, 2015; Mawdsley, 2016). Together, the urgent
financial and infrastructural needs of Southern countries, finance’s search for profitable investment opportunities in the built environment, as well as new possibilities related to green investment (Bracking, 2015; Bigger, 2017) have made room for finance
to assume a global role as a driver of (presumably sustainable) urban growth.
This stream invites papers, which examine the linkages between global climate action and development agendas, private financial interest, and local urban policy and
planning. First, we invite papers that scrutinize constellations of actors and networks involved in coordinating and aligning private-sector led development agendas of financial inclusion and green growth, thereby bridging
civil, private-corporate, state and multi-lateral organizations. Second, we ask how legitimizing discourses in development are centred on the joining up of financial agendas with environmental sustainability
goals and invite papers that examine these discourses and the ‘truths’ on which they are based. Third, we focus on the instruments, which facilitate this global reconfiguration of environmental, financial, and development governance and invite papers, which
examine the related regulatory arrangements, standards, and technologies. Finally, we invite papers that theorize how the interconnections between global action agendas and financial inclusion affect local planning, housing provision and urban spatial development.
Please direct your
abstracts of max. 300 words to the session convenors Monika Grubbauer ([log in to unmask]) and Hanna Hilbrandt ([log in to unmask])
and cc-d to
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Please also consult the conference organizer’s
instructions for individual paper abstract submissions:
https://rc21delhi2019.com/index.php/call-for-abstracts/
General information on the RC21 Conference 2019, Delhi, can be found here:
https://rc21delhi2019.com
Dr. Hanna Hilbrandt
International Planning Studies
Technische Universität Dortmund
Fakultät Raumplanung
GB I R. 405
August-Schmidt-Straße 6
44227 Dortmund
Tel.: (+49)231 755- 3267
Fax: +49 231-755 4398
E-Mail:
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History and Theory of the City
HafenCity Universität Hamburg
Überseeallee 16, R. 4.129
20457 Hamburg
Tel.: +49 (0)40 42827-4394
Mail:
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