*Please forward to interested parties.
Call for Papers for Organized Session:
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
Seattle, WA. April 12-16, 2011
?Organizing for Community-based Land Ownership in Cities: Citizen
participation and community land preservation?
Community-based land ownership and management in cities has garnered
attention in both academic and activist arenas as a way to protect
land in economically and socially marginalized neighbourhoods against
problems of gentrification, provide more affordable forms of housing,
and foster community participation and organization. Community land
trusts for affordable housing provision and protection of natural
spaces in city locations and communal cultivation on shared land are
some land ownership contexts through which residents, non-profit
organizations, and activists can establish community ties and promote
community-based development based upon collective planning practices.
The community-based protection of land in cities from market-oriented
development pressures and local governance agendas, and the
cultivation of land for the creation of community empowerment
practices provide arenas for the analysis and understanding of
on-the-ground relations between community-based actors as well as
community needs and visions. An emphasis on ?keeping land in a
community?s hands? raises technical planning questions pertaining to
how land is assembled, funded, and managed. It also allows for broader
conceptual discussions such as the ethical practices of
community-based land management and ownership, the galvanization of
community land protection in light of real estate pressures and
unfolding gentrification in urban neighbourhoods, political struggles
within and between communities in relation to land, and the influence
and role of government in the facilitation or negation of sustainable
community-based land protection. This session seeks to address the
issues, successes, and dilemmas of community-based organization for
land protection in cities, with a focus on the rationales, processes,
and projects for and of community-based land conservation, management,
and/or ownership. This session seeks to draw an international spectrum
of papers focusing on community-based land ownership and protection in
a variety of urban contexts.
Possible paper topics could be, but are not limited to:
? Activism and advocacy for community-based land ownership and
preservation in cities.
? Urban community land trusts and affordable housing provision.
? Government-community relations in community-based land ownership and
management in cities.
? Comparative study of individual vs community-based land ownership in
addressing social/ecological sustainability and land delivery.
? Micro-politics of planning for urban land preservation by and for
community organizations and residents.
? Community-based land ownership, urban regeneration, and gentrification.
? Regulatory frameworks and community-owned land.
Please send paper abstract information by October 5, 2010 to session
organizers:
Dr. Susannah Bunce, University of Toronto: [log in to unmask]
Dr. Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz: [log in to unmask]
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Susannah Bunce
Assistant Professor, Geography and City Studies programs
University of Toronto Scarborough
526C Bladen Wing,
1265 Military Trail,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M1C 1A4
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel.416.287.7296
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