The Research Committee for the 21st Century Newsletter July 2009 Research Committee 21 1 NEWSLETTER RC 21 Contents 1. Message to the members 1 2. Conferences 2 3. Winterschool 22 4. Publications 26 5. Job announcements 28 6. Obituary 30 Newsletter/ July 2009 Research committee 21 The Research Committee for the 21st century Sociology of Urban and Regional Development International Sociological Association Editor: Jan Willem Duyvendak http://www.shakti.uniurb.it/rc21 Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to present our 2009 Summer Newsletter. And of course the Winter News- letter for you who live in the Southern Hemisphere. I thank our editor, Jan Willem Duy- vendak and his assistant, Josip Kesic, at the University of Amsterdam, for an excellent work as you have always done in the past. Included here are the program information about our forthcoming Sao Paulo conference in August, job postings, new publications, an obituary, first RC21-IJURR-FURS School in comparative urban studies during the Sao Paulo conference, and more. Newsletter and MoreNews&Events at the RC21 web page are the only communication tools we have among the members. I‘d like to encourage you to contribute more infor- mation about your activities and share your interests with all members in Newsletter. I‘d also like to remind you the deadline for abstract submissions to our program at ISA World Congress, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2010. Due is the end of October 2009. Finally, I would very much appreciate if you could renew your membership in the case it‘s expired. Membership fees are very important to keep our organization going. I hope you have a wonderful summer or winter! Kuniko Fujita President, ISA-RC21 July 31, 2009
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NEWSLETTER RC 21
Contents
1. Message to the members 1
2. Conferences 2
3. Winterschool 22
4. Publications 26
5. Job announcements 28
6. Obituary 30
Newsletter/ July 2009 Research committee 21
The Research Committee for the 21st century
Sociology of Urban and Regional Development
International Sociological Association
Editor: Jan Willem Duyvendak
http://www.shakti.uniurb.it/rc21
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to present our 2009 Summer Newsletter. And of course the Winter News-letter for you who live in the Southern Hemisphere. I thank our editor, Jan Willem Duy-vendak and his assistant, Josip Kesic, at the University of Amsterdam, for an excellent work as you have always done in the past. Included here are the program information about our forthcoming Sao Paulo conference in August, job postings, new publications, an obituary, first RC21-IJURR-FURS School in comparative urban studies during the Sao Paulo conference, and more.
Newsletter and MoreNews&Events at the RC21 web page are the only communication tools we have among the members. I‘d like to encourage you to contribute more infor-mation about your activities and share your interests with all members in Newsletter.
I‘d also like to remind you the deadline for abstract submissions to our program at ISA World Congress, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2010. Due is the end of October 2009.
Finally, I would very much appreciate if you could renew your membership in the case it‘s expired. Membership fees are very important to keep our organization going.
I hope you have a wonderful summer or winter!
Kuniko Fujita
President, ISA-RC21
July 31, 2009
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2. Conferences
RC21 CONFERENCES
2009 ISA-RC21 Sao Paulo Conference
Inequality, Inclusion and the Sense of Belonging Time: August 23-25, 2009 Place: Sao Paulo, Brazil Hosts: CEM - Centro de Estudos da Metrópole
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Main Organizer: Eduardo Marques ([email protected]) Department of Political Sci-ence - University of São Paulo (DCP/USP) Contact: [email protected] Website: http://www.centrodametropole.org.br/ISA2009/index.html The organizing committee:
Adalberto Cardoso - Sociology - IUPERJ
Ana Cristina Fernandes - Geography Department - Federal University of Per-nambuco (DG/UFPE)
Ana Fernandes - Faculty of Architecture - Federal University of Bahia (FAU/UFBA)
Carlos Vainer - Urban and Regional Research and Planning Institute - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IPPUR/UFRJ)
Cristina Leme - Faculty of Architecture - University of São Paulo (FAU/USP)
Heloisa Costa - Geography Department - Federal University of Minas Gerais (IGC/ UFMG)
Ilse Scherer-Warren - Sociology Department - Federal University of Santa Ca-tarina (DS/UFSC)
Leila Dias - Geosciences Department - Federal University of Santa Catarina (DG/UFSC)
Marcio Valenca - Geography Department - Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (DGE/UFRN)
Plenary sessions: Sunday, August 23 at 18:30 1. Identities and sense of belonging: Teresa Caldeira (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Ana Clara Torres (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Andreas Novy (University of Viena) Discussant - Ilse Scherer-Warren (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil) Monday, August 24 at 9:00 2. Urban Segregation and social inequalities: Enzo Mingione (Milano University, Italy) John Logan (Brown University, USA) Edmond Preteceille (Science Po, France) Discussant - Maria Cristina Leme (University of São Paulo, Brazil) Tuesday, August 25 at 9:00 3. Urban policies in neoliberal times and beyond Patrick Le Galès (Science Po, France) Raquel Rolnik (University of São Paulo, Brazil) Manuel Aalbers (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Discussant - Carlos Vainer (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2. The Foreclosure Crisis and the Financial Crisis: Local Configurations and Global Consequences - Manuel B. Aalbers, University of Amsterdam, The Neder-
lands.
3. Social effects of urban renewal mixed policies - Les “effets” sociaux de la Ré-novation urbaine : entre démocratie et mixité sociale - Agnès Deboulet, Ecole d'architecture de Paris la Villette et Ipraus / CNRS and Christine Lelévrier, Institut
d'Urbanisme de Paris, Université Paris XII
Approved Proposals
Author(s) Title
Ben Derudder Pathways of Growth and Decline: Connectivity Changes in the WorldCity Network, 2000-2008
Breno Bringel (UCM, Spain) Crisis, cities and food: urban and rural social movements connections through food sover-eignty.
7. Conflict and participation on contemporary urban planning - Fabricio Leal de Oliveira – Urban and Regional Research and Planning Institute/ Federal Univer-
sity of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Approved Proposals
Author(s) Title
Abir Saksouk-Sasso / Nadine Bekdache (AUB) Power Dynamics in the Post-War Reconstruc-tion of Aita el Cha‘ab
8. Contemporary Urban Environment: public space or private planning?, trends and tensions – Manoel Alves e Cibele Risek, Department of Architecture, Univer-
sity of São Paulo at São Carlos, Brazil.
9. Race and Migration Beyond the Global City - Jerome Hodos Department of So-
ciology -Franklin & Marshall College, USA
Approved Proposals
Author(s) Title
Alvaro Luis dos Santos Pereira (FDUSP) Projecting a new highlight in the city. The ero-
Ana Paula Soares Carvalho (IUPERJ) URBAN PLANNING: THE PRIVATE SECTOR LOGIC AND THE STRATEGIC USE OF CUL-TURAL SPACES
Fereniki Vatavali (NTUA) Home consumption as a key element in the
Irena Ehrenfeucht (UNO) Re-urbanization or Privatization? Rebuilding New Orleans after the 2005 Hurricanes
Junji Nishikawa (Kyoto University) Inclusion and exclusion in the urban space - A case study of convenience stores in modern Japan -
Márcio Moraes Valença (UFRN) A PUBLIC SPACE. An essay on Harveyan
Siddharth Sareen (IIT-M) Public Spaces in Chennai: Transport Equity, Inclusiveness and Stakeholders in Urban Planning
Sumandro Chattapadhyay Engaging, absorbing and contesting the con-
Verônica Sales Pereira (FEBASP) Remembering process and the crisis of the legal legitimacy: the old industrial areas in
Approved Proposals
Author(s) Title
Annsilla Nyar (GCRO) What possibilities for city-regional governance?
Carlos Eduardo Dias Souza (PUC-Rio) And Samba got the train: suburbanization and associative forms among afro-descendents in Madureira
Jeniece Tyria Williams (MA) ―Resisting Change: Maintaining Cultural Identity
11. Large scale urban projects in practice: explorations on their social and spatial impacts – Ute Lehrer, York University Canada; Pedro Novais, Federal University
of Juiz de Fora, Brazil and Nadia Somekh, Universidade Mackenzie, Brazil.
Approved Proposals (continued)
Renato Rivera Rusca The Integration of Migrants into Multi-Cultural Societies: As seen in London and Tokyo case studies
Rosângela Rosa Praxedes (PUCSP) Black middle class in the city of Maringá
Thomas J Vicino (Wheaton) New Metropolitan Realities: Implications for the US and Global Regions
Tingwei Zhang (UIC) Urban Problem, Rural Solution
Approved Proposals
Author(s) Title
Alberto de Oliveira (UFRRJ) Labor, economy and transparency in large ur-
Andre Leirner (FGV-SP) Civil society participation in public urban pro-jects: the IADB stance on the Procentro Pro-gram.
Anna Mayr (MA) Citizenship and Urban Governance in Globaliz-ing Cities – Delhi and the Commonwealth Games
Beatriz Elena (CEUR-CONICET) Megaprojects, changes in the urban core and conflicts of interest. Notes on the Argentine experience.
Carlos Leite Implementing Urban Sustainable Redevelop-
Catherine Gingras (UdeM) / Breux / Thomas-Maret
Large scale urban residential developments: consequences on individual housing trajecto-ries
Eulalia Portela Negrelos (USP) Large urban projects in Sao Paulo as new capi-talist strategies in the production of the city
faranak Miraftab (UIUC) Downtown Development Projects: From Colo-nial to Contemporary Cape Town, South Africa
Federico (AMIDSt) Innovation, legitimacy and efficacy in develop-ment: solving the dilemma in Paris and Amster-dam.
FERNANDA ESTER SANCHEZ GARCIA Rio 2007 Pan-American Games and its lega-
Gavin Shatkin The Politics of Privatopolis: For-profit New Towns in Indian Cities
Guillermo Jajamovich (CEDET - UNSAM) From Parque España to Puerto Madero: urban projects and management between Argentine and Spain
Jussi Matias Kulonpalo (HY) Critical Perspective On Implementation of Ur-ban Planning Policy in Helsinki, Finland.
Latendresse Anne (UQAM) Restructuring Montreal : Mega Projects and Urban Movements
MARIA LUCIA PIRES MENEZES (UFJF) Logística e negócios na geografia urbano re-gional de Juiz de Fora. Minas Gerais.
Neha Sami From farming to development: An alternative approach to real estate development in Pune, India
Rosa Moura (IPARDES) Metropolitan Axle/Green Line: re-functionalizing of the space or recycling of the Curitiba-model?
Sébastien Pradella Governing urban mega-project in Paris and Brussels: unintended political effects of elusive policies
Thomas Maloutas (UTH/EKKE) / Johyn Sayas (NTUA) / Nicolas Souliotis (UTH)
Consequences of the 2004 Olympic Games on the sociospatial structure of Athens
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13. After Neo-liberalism - impact on cities - Raquel Rolnik – Faculty of Architec-ture and Urbanism/University of São Paulo, Brazil and NeilSmith, Anthropology,
City University of New York.
14. Construction and Urban Practices: Urbanization, Labor and Culture - Maria Lucia Gitahy and Fernando Atique, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism/
University of São Paulo and São Franciso University,Brazil.
Approved Proposals
Author(s) Title
Alessandra Cristina dos Santos (IFCH) Construction of More Egalitarian Cities: is it possible?
Andréa Casa Nova Maia (IFCS/UFRJ) / Valnei Pereira (FAUUSP)
Nostalgic Landscapes of a metropolis: social-geographic changes as portrait of liberalism policy
Asuman Turkun (YTU) / Besime Sen (MSGSU) Radical Transformations in Historic Urban Cen-ters and Squatter Housing Neighborhoods in Istanbul
Badrinath Rao (teste) Urban fantasies and the politics of space in neoliberal India
Cenk Saracoglu / Neslihan Demirtas-Milz (IEU) Neoliberal urban transformation and Turkey: reflections from Izmir
Francesca Fois (La Sapienza) Neoliberalism, the Argentinean crisis and peo-ple‘s responses in Córdoba and La Rioja
Approved Proposals
Author(s) Title
Edmundo Werna (OIT - ONU) Decent work in urban areas: role of local au-thorities and the case of the construction sector
José Francisco Bernardino Freitas (UFES) Port activities and landfills in Vitória (ES): choices and outcomes.
Luciana Massami Inoue (FAUUSP) / Marcos Virgílio da Silva (USP)
Formation, construction and representation of São Paulo´s suburb 1940 -1960
Maria Margarita GONZALEZ CARDENAS (EHESS)
Urban analysis. A revision to the sixties‘ urban planning criticism.
Michaël Deinema (UvA) Cultural industries and the trajectories of Dutch
23. Social Cohesion in the City – Andreas Novy, Department of City and Regional Development at the University of Economics and Business Administration, Aus-
tria.
Approved Proposals (continued)
Author(s) Title
Maria Floresia P. de S. e Silva (UFBA) Between the disperse and the concentrated urbanization trends a key element: the gated communities
NIKOLAIDOU SOFIA (N.T.U.A) JOB DECENTRALISATION AND RESIDEN-TIAL MOBILITY PATTERNS IN THE METRO-POLITAN PERIURBAN AREA OF ATHENS.
Rainer Randolph (IPPUR/UFRJ) Gated communities inside and outside of met-ropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro. Challenges for planning
Approved Proposals
Author(s) Title
Debruyne Pascal / Stijn Oosterlynck Beyond physical planning interven-tions:fostering new social relations through urban renewal in Ghent
Alberto Vanolo (Diter) European spatial policy between competitive-ness and territorial cohesion: shadows of neo-liberism
Marisol Garcia (UB) Governance, Citizenship and Social Cohesion in Cities
Ismael Puga Rayo Inequality Legitimation in the SegregatedCity: Santiago de Chile
Sergio de Azevedo (UENF) / Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro (IPPUR/UFRJ) / Orlando Alves dos Santos Junior (IPPUR/UFRJ)
The ―metropolitan-effect‖ on the exercise of political citizenship in Brazil
Catharina Cornelia Martina Adriaanse The importance of norms; behavioral game theory as a tool to postdict neighborhood events
24. A Homesick World: The Nostalgic Logic of „Feeling at Home‟ - Jan Willem
Duyvendak, Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, The Nederlands.
25. Economic transformations and socio-territorial structures and changes in large cities: comparing European and Latin American metropolises - Carlos de Mattos, Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile and Edmond Preteceille, Science
Politiques, France.
Approved Proposals
Author(s) Title
Ernani Shoiti Oda (Kyodai) Claiming a far away home: Japanese Brazil-ians‘ politics of memory in Kobe, Japan
Leslie Laczko (U of O) HOW IMPORTANT ARE LOCAL AND URBAN ATTACHMENTS? A CROSS NATIONAL COM-PARISON
Peter van der Graaf (SOFI) The Lost Emotion: Feeling at Home in a Place-less Sociology
Vera Angelico Brazilians Abroad: how do they deal with the sense of belonging on foreign soil?
Approved Proposals
Author(s) Title
Anna Guseva The Identification of Suburbanization Patterns and Changes in Urban Growth: Moscow Exam-ple.
Felipe Link (PUC/UDP) Transformation of the metropolitan labor market and its impact on the urban structure of Santi-ago
Jesus Leal (UCM) Segregation and local housing provision in European cities. Jesus Leal
Lucia Maria Machado BÓGUS (PUC/SP) / Suzana Pasternak (FAUUSP)
Intra metropolitan dinamic and social organiza-tion in the São Paulo Metropolitan Region
Maria Maloutas (UoA) / Thomas Maloutas (UTH/EKKE)
An overview of sociospatial change in a Medi-terranean metropolis. Athens since the 1980s
Pedro Abramo (UNA) The "COM-FUSED" City. The steel hand of the market and the production of urban structure in Latin American metropolis
26. Land regularization and upgrading in urban areas: discussing recent experi-ences - Geraldo Magela Costa, Graduate Program in Geography; Federal Univer-sity of Minas Gerais
28. Urban Poverty – Fernando Diaz Orueta, Department of Sociology II, University
of Alicante, Spain, and Yuri Kazepov, University of Urbino, Italy
Approved Proposals
Author(s) Title
Ana Lourdes Vega Jimenez de la Cuesta (UAM)
Land regularization. The case of Netzhual-coyotl, Mexico City.
Kathryn Lacy (UNO) Measuring Empowerment and Social Inclusion in Urban Development: Belo Horizonte
Maria Camila Loffredo D'Ottaviano (USF) / sergio luis quaglia-silva (USF)
Habitamparo: a guide project for land tenure
Shkelqim Daci (UN-HABITAT) Informal Settlements - land management
YANNAN DING (ISEG) ViC, a critical review on informal housing in Chinese cities
Zainab Bawa (CSCS) Between State and Developmental Visions - The Case of Rehabilitation and Resettlement in Mumbai
Approved Proposals
Author(s) Title
Bediz YILMAZ BAYRAKTAR (MEU) Impoverishing while (alleging at) modernising: Urban renewal and urban poverty in Turkish cities
Brooke Sykes (ESUSPE) Neighbourhood and school poverty as driving forces in individual disadvantage? Examining evidence and policies in the Netherlands
Daria Zelenova Informal settlements in Contemporary South Africa: Fighting Poverty and Repression from Below
Dorian Singh Unequal Health Outcomes: The Role of Ac-cess to Health Care in Urban Romani Popula-tions in Romania
Gabriela Spanghero Lotta (USP) Health Public Policy and the Street-Level-Bureaucracy as strategy against the social exclusion.
Poverty reduction programs and local collec-tive actors: social accountability in São Paulo
Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro (IPPUR/UFRJ) / Mariane Campelo Koslinski (UFRJ)
Urban Frontiers and educational opportunities: the case o Rio de Janeiro
Maira Machado Martins (IFU - LTMU/LAB'URBA)
Popular gated communities in Rio de Janeiro
Manoj Kumar Teotia (CRRID) Rethinking Social Development in Urban India
Maria Encarnación Moya Recio (DCP-USP) Survival and mobility: the role of social rela-
Matthew Marr (FIU) Exiting Homelessness in Los Angeles and Tokyo: Urban Poverty in Comparative Per-spective
Ozgur Avcuoglu (KU) The Governance of Local Social Assistance Schemes
Renata Mirandola Bichir (IUPERJ) New policies against poverty: conditional cash transfer programs in São Paulo, Brazil
Tales Bohrer Lobosco Gonzaga de Oliveira (UFBA)
Spatial practices on Brazilian slums: segrega-tion and everyday life
Walter Musakwa Local Economic Development (LED) pro-grams, and the cycle of poverty in South Af-rica‘s high density suburbs.
Yeqing Huang (FBE in MQ) Beyond Hukou: An Analysis of Social Exclu-sion of Rural-urban Migrants in Transitional China
Yumi Garcia dos Santos (CRESPAA-GTM-CNRS)
The role of public policies for female headed households in Brazil, in France and in Japan
Zoltan Gluck (CEU) Sociospatial Exclusion: Reflections on Urban and Rural Advanced Marginalities in Hungary
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30. Approaches to analysis of Mega Cities in the XXI Century - Lucio Kowarick, Department of Political Science, University of São Paulo, Brazil and Lícia do
Prado Valladares, University of Lille, France
Approved Proposals
Author(s) Title
Anete Brito Leal Ivo (UCSAL e UFBA) / AN-GELA MARIA CARVALHO BORGES (UCSAL)
The territories of social vulnerability and new standards for social protection
Changcheng Zhou (ufmg) A Survey on Subjective Quality of Life in Wu-hanCity
DEBOULET (ENSA-PLV) Neo-liberal restructuring, urban vulnerability and recognition, examples from Cairo and Mumbaï.
Flávia de Paula Duque Brasil (FJP) / Maria de Lourdes Dolabela Pereira (ADRMBH)
Metropolitan Governance and its challenges: an analysis of the new governance system in the RMBH
Hoelzl (UFZ) The future of Megacities in Latin America. Gov-ernance perspectives for Santiago de Chile.
Jayaraj Sundaresan Planning in Mega cities as performance
Juan Miguel Kanai (UM) In-between Cities
Le Galès patrick (Sciences Po) Mega city and why size matters for urban gov-ernance
Peter M. Ward (UT-Austin) Prospects for Effective Metropolitan Govern-ance in the Federalist Americas,
Reinaldo José de Oliveira (PUC/SP) Racial city, Relations and Social Vulnerability: the black trajectories in São Paulo in century XX
RC21 Call for Papers XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 11-17, 2010 The call for papers has appeared at ISA web page http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010 . Your paper abstract including paper title, short description (within 200 words), and name, affiliation, country and email addresses as paper author(s) should be sent to session organizers as well as conference coordinators: Fernando Diaz Orueta ( [email protected] ) and Kuniko Fujita ( [email protected] ) by October 31, 2009.
First RC21-IJURR-FURS Winter School 2009 in „Comparative Urban Studies‟
São Paulo (Brazil), 17-22 August 2009 More information can be found at:
http://shakti.uniurb.it/winter2009/Programme.htm
Programme
Nr. When Who What
1 Monday 17-08-2009
17:30-19:30 Yuri Kazepov (University of Urbino, IT, and Vice-President, RC21)
Eduardo Marques (University of São Paulo, BR and Director of CEM)
Jeremy Seekings (University of Cape Town University and co-editor, IJURR; arriving late)
Arrival of participants
Introduction to the 1st Joint IJURR-FURS-RC21 ‗Comparative Urban Studies‘ Firstschool 2009
(Rationale, format, expectations...)
Welcome reception
2 Tuesday 18-08-2009
The practicalities of scientific work: publishing, raising funds
9:00-13:00 Jeremy Seekings Eduardo Marques Yuri Kazepov
Publishing articles: premises, opportunities and the peer review process in international scien-tific journals in urban studies. How to prepare a sound research proposal for comparative research and get funded: chal-lenges and opportunities on a global scale.
13:00-15:00 Lunch break
15:00-19:00 Participants+Scholars Presentation of the participants, of their re-search interests and projects (details will be provided to the selected partici-pants)
Evening Documentaries and films about urban topics at the Centro Cultural (might be in Portuguese)
9:00-17:00 São Paulo Urban Tour This tour will take participants to different kinds of neighbourhood in the city, including Favela Jaguaré, Berrini, etc. We shall travel by sub-way and bus, leaving from the hotels at about 08h30, and from Vila Madalena subway station at 09h00.
13:00-14:00 Lunch break (brown bag lunch)
17:00-18:30 Speakers to be con-
firmed
Moderation: Eduardo
Marques
What has been seen: a discussion on São Paulo
Evening Documentaries and films about urban topics at the Centro Cultural (might be in Portuguese)
4 Thursday 20-08-2009
Northern and Southern cities: Different? Similar?
9:00-13:00 Edmond Preteceille (Sciences Po, Paris FR)
John Logan (Brown Uni-versity, USA)
Raquel Rolnik (University of São Paulo)
Similarities and differences in the study of ur-ban segregation, inequality and poverty: what should be considered and how it should be done: travelling concepts and methods?
13:00-15:00 Lunch break
15:00-18:00 Participants Assignments
18:00-19:30 Participants+Scholars Presentations and discussion
Evening Documentaries and films about urban topics at the Centro Cultural (might be in Portuguese)
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5 Friday 21-08-2009
Urban inequalities, poverty and social exclusion: north and south
9:00-13:00 Enzo Mingione (University of Milan-Bicocca, IT)
Nadya Guimarães (University of São Paulo, BR)
Francisco Sabatini (Catholic University of Chile)
Similarities and differences in the study of ur-ban segregation, inequality and poverty: what should be considered and how it should be done: travelling concepts and methods?
13:00-15:00 Lunch break
15:00-18:00 Participants Assignments
18:00-19:30 Participants+Scholars Presentations and discussion
Evening Documentaries and films about urban topics at the Centro Cultural (might be in Portuguese)
6 Saturday 22-08-2009
Belonging and Excluding in the City
9:00-13:00 Jan Willem Duyvendak (University of Amsterdam, NL)
18:00-19:30 Participants+Scholars Presentations and discussion
Evening Documentaries and films about urban topics at the Centro Cultural (might be in Portuguese)
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Nr. When What
7 Sunday 23-08-2009
Tour / RC21 Conference
Morning Additional São Paulo Tours
Tours will be available for School and Confer-ence participants, including of the historical centre of São Paulo. See conference programme
Afternoon/Evening
Opening of RC21 confer-ence
Plenary session on “Identities and Sense of Belonging”
Speakers at opening plenary session include: Teresa Caldeira (University of California, Berkeley, USA), Ana Clara Torres (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and Aihwa Ong (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
8 Monday 24-08-2009 RC21 Conference:
Morning Plenary session on “Urban Segregation and Urban Inequalities”
Speakers at plenary session include: Enzo Mingione, John Logan and Edmond Preteceille
See conference programme
Afternoon Parallel conference ses-sions
9 Tuesday
25-08-2009 RC21 Conference:
Morning Plenary session on “Urban Policies in Neoliberal Times and Beyond”
Speakers at plenary session include: Patrick Le Gales (Science Po, FR), Raquel Rolnik (University of São Paulo, BR), Manuel Aalbers (University of Amsterdam, NL)
4. Publications "Urban Justice and Sustainability", a special issue, Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, Vol. 14, No. 5, May 2009. The special issue is based on the RC21 2007 Vancouver conference. A few more papers from the same con-ference will also appear in the same journal in the subsequent issue.
Ranvinder Singh Sandhu, Jasmeet Sandhu and Balwinder Arora: Urban Poverty in De-veloping Countries. Issues and Strategies for Sustainable Cities (2009, Bookwell). ISBN: 978-81-89649-85-9 Urbanization got an impetus during 1980s and 1990s due to advances in transportation and telecommunication and further momentum was provided by globalization. During this period many Asian Countries experienced both economic boom and population increase. UN HABITAT (2006) pointed out that Asia and Africa will host largest urban population in 21st century and cities will continue to be sites of extreme inequality. It is feared that Asian cities may not be able to cope with the ongoing urbanization and urbanization of poverty further adds to the challenges. This edited volume addresses to the challenges thrown by urban poverty for sustainable cities in developing countries and also presents some strategies adopted in these countries to deal with these challenges. The volume contains seventeen articles which are divided into three sections. Section-1, entitled 'Urban Poverty in Developing Countries: Some Issues', contains five articles dealing with urban poverty and delineates certain issues related to it. Section-II, entitled 'Urban Pov-erty in India: Empirical Reality', contains five articles which present the empirical situation of urban poverty in India. Section-III, entitled 'Urban poverty and Strategies for Sustain-able Cities', anthologizes seven articles dealing with some strategies to grapple with the problem of urban poverty in developing countries and the outcome of these efforts. All these efforts to achieve sustainable cities are not producing desired results. Cities can-not be sustainable if rural areas, neighborhoods and communities are not sustainable. So focus must shift to these settlements as well.
Call for a contribution to a book
„The Global Financial Crisis and the city-new spaces of socio-economic disadvantage‟
Edited by Scott Baum
Proposed Bentham e-book in the Series ‗Contemporary issues in the social and human
geography of the city‘ There can be little doubt that one of the most talked about issues of our time is the cur-rent global economic crisis. How this crisis will impact on the cities of the world is of inter-est, especially as the rate of urbanisation at a global scale continues unabated and the
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reach of the downturn continues. The global financial crisis will likely impact across several interlinked arenas, but is likely to have impacts and the shape and distribution of social equity, inclusion and exclusion in cities on a global scale. Cities of the past have been under increasing pressure as a result of a range of factors including economic, demographic and policy impacts. The current economic crisis will refocus interest in understanding the social vulnerability of cities and may raise ques-tions about the social sustainability of our current city forms and the lives of residents in disparate communities. This edited book will build on a rich history dedicated to un-derstanding the big social questions that are associated with cities and urban life. Sev-eral key themes are suggested for inclusion in this edited book:
social concentration and segregation in the city experiences of social exclusion and inclusion impacts of globalization and cosmopolitanism on city life social justice, civil society and civic renewal The dynamics of urban labour markets, including skill shortages, migrant labour, unem-ployment, and workplace relations; Being an e-book we can expect publication early in 2010 and so would be looking for contributions to be finalised by November. Contact: Associate Professor Scott Baum Urban Research Program Griffith School of Environment Griffith University Telephone: 61+ (0)7+3735 5430 Fax: 61+ (0)7+3735 4026 Mobile: 0400 647011 Website: http://www.griffith.edu.au/urp