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Call for Papers - Hegemony and Control in the East Asian City 2006 East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography (EARCAG), Taipei, Taiwan. June 24-30 2006. Conference information: http://www.geog.ntu.edu.tw/news/20060624/index.htm ---- 'Hegemony and Control in Public and Social Urban Space in Asia' Two sessions on critical urban geography at EARCAG 2006 Control of public space, the city, the urban environment, and associated visual-geographical 'imaginations' imposedby overarching political and statal organizations, and maintained through various mechanisms of sociopolitical control, have been the subject of fruitful recent analysis by critical urban geographers. The dynamic spaces of the city, and the articulation and intermeshing of power relations through the built environment, has created particuar and engaging - albeit at times sinister - geographies of control. Cities in Asia have been under-researched with regards to these topics. This session aims to redress the balance by considering power, control and the construction of hegemony in cities in East Asia. The focus is on those spaces where traditionally examined spaces - public space etc. - intermingle with the more subtle and liminal spaces of 'the social'. From political discussion in Singapore to Falun Gong in Shanghai, from the erosion of freedoms in Hong Kong to spaces of disaffected youth in Tokyo, this session aims to explore the spatial and social urban reprecussions of control and hegemony in what is arguably the most dynamic urban region of the world today. Geographers and academics from cognate disciplines from Asian countries, and those from elsewhere who are doing research on similar topics, are welcome to submit proposals. Proposals are welcome on a broad range of topics. Please send abstracts of c.250 words to [log in to unmask] _______________________________________________________ [log in to unmask] An urban geography discussion and announcement forum List Archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/URB-GEOG-FORUM Maintained by: RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group UGRG Home Page: http://www.urban-geography.org.uk