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Household Structure, Spatial Mobility and Urban Growth
CALL FOR PAPERS
Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, New York City, 27
February - 3 March 2001
Organizers:
Suzanne Davies Withers, Department of Geography, University of Washington,
Seattle, USA
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Helen Jarvis, Department of Geography, University of Newcastle, UK
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In addressing questions of housing choice and residential mobility,
transport, leisure, consumption practice, child-care and gender relations -
forces shaping the footprint and profile of cities throughout the
industrialised world - the household functions as a key site of analysis.
It functions as a crucible for preference formation and decision-making
whereby individual and collective identities in these overlapping spheres
are negotiated and contested everyday.
This session explores key tensions binding household structure, everyday
spatial mobility and local contexts of urbanisation. Papers are invited to
reflect both theoretical and empirical contributions and an international
perspective. The aim is to expose contradictory pressures shaping urban
growth, division and fragmentation. For instance, co-existence of
low-density family dwellings, struggles around the containment of urban
growth, increased long distance commuting and long-hours working alongside
notions of 'simplicity' and emphasis on achieving closer home-work
'balance'. Unravelling these contradictions calls for more focused
dialogue between urban studies, gender studies, urban planning, transport
and population studies. This then is the objective, to facilitate
cross-national, cross-disciplinary discussion of contemporary urban issues
from a household perspective - research which opens up the relationship
between structural changes in the global economy and local market behaviour
to critical examination.
If you are interested in participating in this session, please submit a
title and short abstract (250 words maximum) by 1 August 2000, by email if
possible, to one of the organizers lister above. International submissions
are invited from across and beyond the geography discipline. Further
information on the AAG conference is available at
www.aag.org/PDF/2001call.pdf
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