Hello,
apologies for cross-posting. The organization of this session at the next RC21 conference arises from a small international network funded by Leverhulme Trust, concerned with the urban responses to the global economic crisis. See the network's website: http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/projects/network/index.html
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Annual RC21 Conference 2011
The struggle to belong. Dealing with diversity in 21st century urban
settings
Amsterdam (The Netherlands), July 7-9 2011
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research – Urban Studies
University of Amsterdam – The Netherlands
The End of Urban Neoliberalism (as we knew it)?
Organizers:
Ugo Rossi, Università di Cagliari
Stijn Oosterlynck, Universiteit Antwerpen
Sara Gonzalez, University of Leeds
Ramon Ribera Fumaz, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
The recent credit crunch (2008-09) has given rise to an unprecedented
economic recession in the context of contemporary globalization. Urban
economies are central to the ongoing recession, not only because the crisis
was initially triggered by the residential mortgage default in the United
States, but also because the urban effects of the economic downturn are
particularly visible: 'ghost towns', abandoned construction sites, anemic
housing markets and public expenditure cuts affecting local services.
National and global macroeconomic responses to the crisis are reproducing
conventionally neoliberal patterns of public sector downsizing, expansion
of market forces, reinforcement of financial capital elites, and
diminishing social rights for the many. At the same time, politico-economic
elites are also seeking allegedly innovative ways of getting out of the
crisis of accumulation and regulation, while grassroots and
neighbourhood-based organizations are experimenting with alternative
pathways of (post-capitalist?) development. This session looks for papers
exploring urban responses to the crisis in Europe and elsewhere, touching
on the following issues:
* Landscapes of despair: the spatial effects of the urban crisis
* The new urban outcasts: the societal effects of the urban crisis
(unemployed migrants, displaced and evicted residents etc.)
* Ownership society and the crisis of residential capitalism
* The policy dilemma: reproducing urban neoliberalism vs. resurrecting
Keynesianism as a way to tackle the recession
* ‘Big Society’ and the rise of the new paternalism in the
post-neoliberal state: urban governance implications
* Building resilient economies in the post-crisis city: green,
knowledge-based and creative strategies
* Coping with the urban crisis: community-based responses and the urban
politics of the common
Enquiries
and abstract proposals (max. 250 words) for this session should be addressed to
Ugo Rossi ([log in to unmask])
and Stijn Oosterlynck ([log in to unmask]). The deadline for abstract submissions is the 21st of December.
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Dr. Ugo Rossi
Research Fellow in Economic and Political Geography
University of Cagliari
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http://sites.google.com/site/personalwebsiteugorossi/
Book review editor of Dialogues in Human Geography http://dhg.sagepub.com/
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