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***The usual apologies for cross posting.*** *CFP **RC21 Leeds : September 11-13, 2017 <https://rc21leeds2017.wordpress.com/>* Rethinking Urban Global Justice: An international academic conference for critical urban studies *Session "Urban Social Policy as Struggle for Urban Global Justice?"* Contemporary urban social policy is shaped to various degrees by social activism. This is evident, for example, in the global struggles for drug policy reform and the relative gains which public health approaches to drug use have seen over the past decade. Another example includes urban food justice movements, influential in establishing income- and access-based responses to food insecurity, including comprehensive urban food policies. Some urban social policies are the result of more radical grass-roots activism around issues of housing, welfare reform, education, or LGBTQ rights, others are constructed in response to initiatives promoting liberal-democratic values such as UN Habitat III’s New Urban Agenda. Regardless of motivation, these approaches are the result of long processes of global struggle addressing social justice and human rights. To date however, the majority of academic work separates studies of social policy and urban activism, resulting in siloed and incomplete accounts of both processes, which, we contend, are inextricably linked. This session seeks to examine the relationships between urban political struggles for social justice and the production of urban social policy, while also paying attention to their increasingly internationalizing context. We welcome abstracts for empirically grounded, conceptually motivated papers from across the globe that examine one or more dimensions of the following: ·- To what extent is social policy advocacy and creation a form of urban activism? How are they linked and how do they interrelate? · - What are the consequences and effects of these interlinkages both for activism as well as policy creation? · - What are the socio-spatial effects of increasing internationalization processes of activism and social policy production? · - How do concepts of social justice created elsewhere translate into local struggles and policy and with what kind of discursive shifts? Deadline for Abstract Submission: *10th March 2017*. Abstracts (300-500words) should be sent by e-mail to Marit Rosol, University of Calgary *[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>,* Cristina Temenos, University of Manchester *[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>* AND to *[log in to unmask]* Further details on abstract submission at: https://rc21leeds2017.wordpress.com/ Cristina Temenos and Marit Rosol -- Marit Rosol, Dr. | Canada Research Chair "Global Urban Studies" Associate Professor of Geography | Department of Geography | University of Calgary 2500 University Dr. NW | Calgary AB | T2N 1N4 | Canada room: 446 Earth Sciences Building | phone: ++1 403 220-6200 homepage: https://geog.ucalgary.ca/profiles/marit-rosol email: [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