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Re: RSA Global Conference 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS: Sustaining Whose Futures? Megaprojects, territorial politics and social injustices

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Tom Slater <[log in to unmask]>

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Mon, 2 Apr 2012 12:14:43 +0100

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Well done - looks great.

Daniel Zhang wrote:
> in case you are interested. Im organising a session in Beijing this June.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Yunpeng ZHANG <[log in to unmask] 
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
> 
>     Apologise for cross posting
> 
>     Regional Studies Association Global Conference 2012
>     Sustaining Regional Futures, 24th - 27th June 2012, Beijing, China
> 
>     Call for papers for a session entitled:
> 
>     Sustaining Whose Futures? Megaprojects, territorial politics and
>     social injustices
> 
>     Organisers:
>     Yunpeng Zhang, PhD student, Institute of Geography, The University of
>     Edinburgh, UK, email: [log in to unmask]
>     <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>     Huifang Cong, PhD student, School of Built Environment, Heriot-Watt
>     University Edinburgh, UK email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>     Xiang Feng, PhD, Managing Director of Sino-European Comparative Urban
>     Research Centre, Shanghai Normal University, China, email:
>     [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> 
>     Session Introduction
> 
>     The ascendancy of neoliberal ideology worldwide witnessed a shift,
>     what David Harvey portrays, from managerialism to entrepreneurialism
>     in urban governance, prioritising policy concerns on competitiveness
>     and attractiveness of places to footloose capital investment over
>     social settlements on welfares and redistribution. A prominent
>     strategy of such entrepreneurial urbanism focuses on the production
>     and reproduction of spaces at various scales, or 'spatial fix' to
>     use Harvey's words, in order to exploit locational advantages.
>     Megaprojects are one of the spatial fixes. In this session, we
>     advise megaprojects include: large scale infrastructural projects,
>     major urban regeneration/gentrification programmes, new town
>     development, and one-time off mega-event such as Olympics or World
>     Expo, etc. This broad view of megaprojects is based on our
>     conviction that the spatial-temporal criteria of scale and the
>     financial yardstick of cost cannot be adopted as the defining
>     features of megaprojects for the firm connections of megaprojects
>     with wider political-economic changes and spatial (re)structuring,
>     such as, inter alia, the shift towards post-Fordism economy, the
>     dominant power of fictitious finance capital, the hegemony of
>     neoliberalism, and state rescaling.
>     Whilst much academic input has been invested in examining the
>     contextual changes giving rise to megaprojects as an entrepreneurial
>     strategy and the impacts upon the city/region (often based on
>     ex-ante predications), theoretical polemics and empirical
>     investigations have overlooked the complicated process and the
>     realpolitik of territoriality in developing and managing
>     megaprojects. Filled with a plethora of celebratory accounts laying
>     much weight on the contribution of megaprojects to urban/regional
>     economic development and improvement of place images, existing
>     scholarship fails to highlight the inherent irrationalities and
>     contradictions in developing megaprojects and social inequalities
>     and social injustices generated and exacerbated by them, especially
>     in non-western context. What required are independent and critical
>     examinations of the actual impacts upon the city/region in general
>     and the citizens in particular as the latter are the human agents
>     bearing the direct intended or unintended consequences of
>     megaprojects. More importantly, there is a moral and ethical
>     imperative to examine how megaprojects impact the vulnerable
>     populations such as the displacees, the migrant workers, the urban
>     poor, etc.  Take the issue of displacement in China as an example,
>     millions of farmers were displaced and relocated in order to develop
>     the Three Gorges Dam and more than 18000 households gave away their
>     beloved homes and communities to make way for the Expo 2010,
>     however, existing studies seem oblivious to the impacts upon their
>     personal lives, families, and communities.
>     The proposed session provides an opportunity for critical
>     contribution from a wide range of disciplines such as sociology,
>     anthropology, geography, political sciences, and legal studies to
>     offer inter-disciplinary insights on the study of megaprojects. We
>     ask contributors to critically think about questions what kind of
>     futures megaprojects are promising; for whom such futures are
>     created and sustained, and whether the promised futures are well
>     delivered. We invite both theoretical exploration and empirical case
>     studies from different regions in the world on the following themes:
> 
>     *  The underlying logics of megaprojects ;
>     *  The territorial politics and strategies in legitimating and
>     developing megaprojects;
>     *  Legal and policy frameworks for land use in developing megaprojects;
>     *  Evaluation of the impacts of megaprojects;
>     *  Social injustices and social inequalities in megaprojects ;
>     *  Involuntary displacement and forcible evictions caused by
>     megaprojects (policy frameworks, representations of displacement,
>     and mechanics of displacement process);
> 
> 
>     We welcome abstracts of 400-800 words along with paper titles and
>     full contact details of all participating authors to be submitted to
>     Huifang ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Yunpeng
>     ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) by Monday
>     20 February 2012 (it is possible to extend the deadline to Mondy 27
>     February 2012 ). Please see
>     http://www.regional-studies-__assoc.ac.uk/events/2012/__globalconf-june/abstract-__submission.pdf
>     <http://www.regional-studies-assoc.ac.uk/events/2012/globalconf-june/abstract-submission.pdf>
>     for detailed instructions for abstract submission. Those submitting
>     abstracts to this special session must also register for the
>     conference via the RSA online registration website in  order to be
>     confirmed and included in the conference programme. The  uploading
>     of abstracts is inclusive of the online registration process.
> 
> 
>     Yunpeng Zhang
>     PhD Candidate
>     Institute of Geography
>     University of Edinburgh
>     Drummond Street
>     Edinburgh EH8 9XP
>     Scotland, UK
>     Web: www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/__s0977814
>     <http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/s0977814>
> 
>     -- 
>     The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
>     Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
> 
>     _________________________________________________________
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Yunpeng Zhang
> PhD student
> Institute of Geography
> School of GeoSciences
> The University of Edinburgh
> Drummond Street
> Edinburgh, EH8 9XP
> Scotland, UK
> 
> www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/s0977814 <http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/s0977814>
> 
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-- 
Dr. Tom Slater
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
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