Hi all,
We are looking for a couple more papers to complete our session at the AAG next year. Please do get in touch if you have any questions!
Transnational urban expertise: geopolitics, histories and mobilities
Conveners: Ruth Craggs (King's College London) and Hannah Neate (Manchester Metropolitan University)
This session brings together historical and contemporary accounts of transnational urban experts and expertise. We are interested in contributions that develop debates about urban expertise by connecting past and present, for example through exploring the prehistories of current policy and ideas, or destabilising the ahistorical nature of some accounts of urban policy mobilities. This includes research that troubles the directionality of urban policy mobility by highlighting how ideas travel from the global south, the Third World, or the Eastern bloc to Europe or the West, as well as those which circulate between countries of the global south; research that discusses places or ideas not often highlighted in discussion of urban policy mobility; or work that looks beyond the typical agents of urban expertise (e.g. architects, planners, economic consultants), to other, less researched actors (e.g. administrators, community development officers, artists, activists).
Possible themes for papers include:
• Expertise in geopolitical transitions such as decolonization and the end of the Cold War
• Novel methods for researching transnational experts and urban policy
• Urban expertise and temporalities (e.g. careers and policies over longer time spans)
• Flows of expertise which trouble typical flows from North to South
• Postcolonial urban policy mobility
Deadlines:
Please email abstracts to Ruth Craggs at [log in to unmask] by the 7th October 2016. We will get back to everyone by 14th October 2016 and you will be expected to register, pay conference fees, and submit your abstracts online at the AAG website by 27th October 2016.
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