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Research Committee on
Regional and Urban Development RC21
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Programme
Co-ordinator
Yuri Kazepov
Istituto di Sociologia
University of Urbino
Via A. Saffi, 15
61029 Urbino
Italy
fax: 39-0722-305731
yuri.kazepov@uniurb.it
Session 1
Monday, 24 July 2006, 13:30 -
15:30
University of South Africa,
UNISA, Room 2B-1
Urban politics and
governance: Conflicting interests and
citizenship
Organiser: Ian Gordon, London School of
Economics, UK,
I.R.Gordon@lse.ac.uk
Organiser: Alan Scott,
University of Innsbruck, Austria,
Alan.Scott@uibk.ac.at
A new conventional wisdom' about the role of
cities in an increasingly competitive
international economy suggests that there is
a necessary and observable shift toward more
responsive forms of 'governance' at this
scale as a means of securing a required
combination of competitiveness and cohesion.
Though the notion of governance is somewhat
fuzzy, its key factor seems to be that of
cutting across established models of
regulation and of principles of
accountability.
The aim of this session is to dig behind the
functionalist and ideological elements of
'governance' talk, to identify what kinds of
related change are actually underway in the
processes of policy, politics and regulation
at an urban scale.
PAPERS
Jens S.
Dangschat; Alex Hamedinger (Technical
University of Vienna, AU).
The 'Europeanisation' of Local Governance?
The Impact of EU Regional Policies on Cities
Jens
Aderhold (Martin-Luther-University
Halle-Wittenberg, DE)
Legitimization: myth or
integrating Requirement? Local elies and
local policy in the tension field of
uncertainty, ignorance and
professionalisation in dramatically changing
societies
Ilda
Lourenco-Lindell, (Nordic Africa
Institute, SE)
The multiple sites of urban
governance: conceptual challenges and
avenues
Bernt Matthias
(UFZ-Centre for Environmental Research, DE)
Shrinking cities: different
trajectories towards urban governance
DISTRIBUTED PAPERS
Alexander
Hamedinger (Vienna University of
Technology, AT)
The Europeanisation of Local
Governance? The impact of EU regional
policies on cities
Session 2
Monday, 24 July 2006, 15:45 -
17:45
University of South Africa,
UNISA, Room 2B-1
Rescaling social policies and
the role of local welfare arrangements
Joint Session with ISA Research Committee on
Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy
RC19
Organisers: Yuri Kazepov, University of
Urbino, Italy,
yuri.kazepov@uniurb.it
and
Rianne Mahon, Carleton University, Canada,
rmahon@ccs.carleton.ca
In the light of most welfare
reform processes the territorial (urban and
regional) dimension is acquiring prominence,
not only in terms of implementation, but
also increasingly as a regulating actor with
widening degrees of freedom. Reasons for
that are many (decentralisation,
privatisation, new forms of governance,...),
but all point to a deep reorganisation of
social policies at the territorial level.
Even the EU (in Europe) is fostering that,
trying to gain regulatory terrain. The joint
session aims at looking from different
perspectives into this process. What are the
implications of this territorial
re-organisation? How does it take place in
different contexts and what are the reasons
for territorial differences?
PAPERS
Barbara Da Roit
(University of
Milano-Bicocca, IT)
Does the local matter? Local
variations in welfare systems and the case
of long term care for the elderly in a
comparative perspective.
Linda Lobao
(The Ohio State University,
US)
Devolution and the Local
State: A Comparative, Subnational Analysis
of US Communities under the Neo-Liberal
Roll-Out
Anna Sobczak
(European University
Institute, IT)
The impact of the European
Union on the inner structure of European
cities – competition and cooperation between
actors. A comparative analysis of Krakow and
Glasgow
Christopher Leo
(University of Winnipeg, CAN)
Deep Federalism: Respecting
community difference in national policy
DISTRIBUTED PAPERS
Natascha Van Mechelen
(University of Antwerpen, BE) and Veerle
De Maesschalck (University of Antwerpen,
BE)
European Social Assistance
Schemes : is there a link between
territorial organisation and programme
generosity?
Rianne Mahon (Carleton
University, CAN)
Of Scalar Hierarchies and
Welfare Redesign: Child Care in Four
Canadian Cities
Session 3
Monday, 24 July 2006, 18:00 -
20:00
University of South Africa,
UNISA, Room 2B-1
Learning cities: Knowledge,
innovation and economic growth
Organiser: Alan Scott, University of
Innsbruck, Austria,
Alan.Scott@uibk.ac.at
Cities are in increased global competition
with each other. Or perhaps it is more
accurate to say that urban decision makers
believe this to be the case and act
accordingly. These beliefs are themselves in
part a response to social scientific debate
(and/or rhetoric), in this case to notions
such as 'knowledge society'. The result has
been an emphasis upon the need to 'position'
the city and/or region; to build clusters;
to institutionalize knowledge transfer; to
market the locality. Nor is it just major
centres or 'global cities' that pursue such
strategies and assert their locational
advantages over rivals. Lesser players must
do the same, at least within the national or
regional context of inter-city competition.
What are the implications of this renewed
emphasis upon knowledge, innovation and
growth? How does it affect key actors within
the locality; not just governing elites, but
also universities, research hospitals,
research centres, etc.? Are we witnessing a
reconfiguration of the urban 'growth
coalition'? Will new forms of urban
inequality emerge within and between cities?
Is this a game from which cities outside the
'developed world' are excluded? This session
will seek to address these and related
questions and issues arising from the urban
learning imperative.
PAPERS
Alan Scott
(University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Introduction to the session
and the role of Universities
Bilhim and Neves João and
Bárbara
(Technical University of Lisbon, PT)
Digital Cities: Virtual
Spaces for Social, Cultural, Political and
Economic Development
Manoj Kumar Teotia
(Centre for Research in Rural
& Industrial Development, IND)
Dynamics of Learning Cities
in Northwest India: Emerging Trends in
Knowledge, Innovation and Urban Economic
Growth (A Comparative Study of Chandigarh
and Ludhiana)
Lopez Jimenez, Angela; Pradas
Jaime Juan; Nocetti Olazabal Carina; Anso
Fanlo José Luis; Baringo Ezquerra David
(Universidad de Zaragoza, ES)
The Project: E-Atlas Sudoe:
Development of ohe Tic’s and Social
Technological Appropriation in Southern
Europe
Session 4
Tuesday, 25 July 2006, 13:30
- 15:30
University of South Africa,
UNISA, Room 2B-1
Globalisation and the
remaking of the international urban disorder
Organiser: Diane Davis, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, USA,
dedavis@mit.edu
The study of globalization's
impact on cities has shed new light on such
questions as economic restructuring,
metropolitan governance, and spatial
transformation, among other issues. Implicit
in many of these studies is the assumption
that globalization is creating a new
international urban order in which cities
are key nodes in a highly inter-connected
global network built around a hierarchy of
cities reflecting a relatively functional
(if not efficient) socio-spatial pecking
order of inter and intra-urban functions and
activities. Less well studied have been the
"dysfunctional" effects of such changes --
or the ways that globalization, either on
its own or as mediated by the aforementioned
political, economic, spatial, and cultural
factors, has led to new or more visceral
forms of urban conflict and disorder. This
session seeks papers that examine how
globalization produces disorder and disarray
in everyday urban life, either by rupturing
old political, economic, social, and spatial
practices or producing entirely new ones.
Among the suggested topics for discussion
are: the growing urban political struggles
and social tensions that accompany new
immigrant or labor flows; the increasing use
of coercive force (police and/or private
security firms) to manage accelerating
social and spatial polarization; the growing
intra-urban conflicts generated by the rapid
transformation of land uses in emergent
global cities; the political tensions within
discrete territorial jurisdictions that form
sprawling global metropolises; and the trade
wars between global cities or within global
city regions.
PAPERS
Agnes Deboulet
(Ecole d'Architecture de
Paris-la Villette, FR) and Mona Fawaz
(American University in Beirut)
Urban restructuring, highways
and conflicts in Beirut’s irregular
settlements
Liza Weinstein
(University of Chicago, US)
Mumbai’s Development Mafias:
Globalization, Organized Crime and Land
Development
Kinuthia Macharia
(American University, US)
The Diminishing Role of the
Third World City in the Era of Globalization
Tony Roshan Samara
(George Mason University, US)
Policing Development: Crime,
Security & Urban Renewal in Cape Town
Session 5
Tuesday, 25 July 2006, 15:45
- 17:45
University of South Africa,
UNISA, Room 2B-1
Cities as a social fabric
Organisers: Patrick Le Galès, CEVIPOF,
France,
patrick.legales@sciences-po.fr and Edmond
Preteceille, OSC, France,
edmond.preteceille@sciences-po.fr
Cities and metropolis are
being fragmented and reshaped: new groups,
new identities, new socialisation processes
are emerging, in a context where divisions,
fragmentation, inequalities, segregation,
fragilisation and precarisation seem to be
deeply affecting all categories. Thus, the
capacity of cities to foster social
integration, or social cohesion as some put
it, is questioned in new ways. Urban
research has reflected that by focusing on
issues of fragmentation, exclusion. Urban
sociology also needs a better understanding
of the processes which allow groups within
cities to cohere, to integrate, to govern as
well as to fragment. Papers are asked to
explore both conceptually and empirically
how we might understand cities as a social
fabric, within a comparative frame of
reference.
PAPERS
Goran
Therborn (SSCAS Upsala, SE)
Integration in Eastern
EUropean cities
Jeremy Seekings, Tracy
Jooste,
et al. (University of Cape Town, SA)
The Social Fabric of the
Post-Apartheid City
Patrick
Le Galès (Sciences Po Paris, FR)
Edmond Préteceille (Sciences Po,
Paris, FR)
The making of the social
fabric
Session 6
Tuesday, 25 July 2006, 18:00
- 20:00
University of South Africa,
UNISA, Room 2B-1
Business Meeting
Session 7
Wednesday, 26 July 2006,
13:30 - 15:30
University of South Africa,
UNISA, Room 2B-1
Declining urban-rural divides
and urban livelihoods
Organiser: Alison Todes,
Human Sciences Research
Council,
South Africa,
atodes@hsrc.ac.za
In parts of the developing world,
urban-rural divides are declining as
fragmented and impermanent migration occurs
in the midst of declining formal employment,
and sometimes stagnant national economies.
Urban agriculture is dispersed throughout
the nominally urban areas and increases in
scale towards the nominal urban fringe.
Preconceptions of urban and rural provide a
poor guide to these circumstances.
PAPERS
Amanda
Williamson (University of the
Witwatersrand, ZA)
Migration, livelihoods and
gender: the experience of women in urban and
rural settlements in KwaZulu-Natal, South
Africa
Gunilla Bejeren (Stockholm
University, SE) and Atakile Beyene
(Stockholm University, SE)
Gender, mobility and urban
livelihood opportunities in Southern
Ethiopia: a historical case study
Eroglu Sebnem
(University of Kent, UK)
Poverty of social capital in
a Turkish squatter settlement: key findings
from a study of household responses to
deprivation
Session 8
Wednesday, 26 July 2006,
15:45 - 17:45
University of South Africa,
UNISA, Room 2B-1
Slums in developing countries
Organisers: Ranvinder S. Shandu, Guru Nanak
Dev University Amritsar, India,
ranvinder@yahoo.com and
Caroline Kihato, Development
Bank of Southern Africa,
CarolineK@dbsa.org
Slums, which are defined by
the limited availability of unsanitary water
and sanitation, little or no waste removal
and energy and transport infrastructure,
poor housing, and informal forms of dispute
resolution, are ubiquitous in developing
countries. Slums in their various forms are
an inevitable consequence of, inter alia,
insufficient jobs that allow households to
afford better housing and services,
inadequate local government resources and a
variety of governance issues. However,
conditions in slums and the potential for
improving these conditions vary
considerably, depending on, inter alia, the
pre-conditions for pro-poor policies, civic
action and the responses of households.
PAPERS
Gulyani Sumila
(Columbia University, US) Talukdar Debu
(SUNY, US)
Inside informality:Poverty,
Jobs and services in the slums of Nairobi
and Dakar
Alexandre Apsan
Frediani (Oxford Brookes, UK)
Sen, the World Bank and
Poverty Alleviation- The Urban Poor of
Salvador Da Bahia, Brazil
Marie
Huchzermeyer (Witwatersrand
University, ZA)
Slum Upgradding in Kenya
within the wider Housing Market: A Human
Rights concern
Maitreyee
Bardhan Roy (Kolkata University, IN)
Legal Awareness an Innovative
policy Intervention Programme for the Women
in the Slum Areas of the city of Kolkata,
India
DISTRIBUTED PAPERS
Kaoko
Takahashi (NUS Singapore)
Return of Urban
Renewal:Feasibility of Large-scale
resettlement Planning for the Urban Poor in
Planning
Session 9
Wednesday, 26 July 2006,
18:00 - 20:00
University of South Africa,
UNISA, Room 2B-1
The new megaprojects: What is
their impact on urban life
Organisers: Susan Fainstein, Columbia
University, USA,
Sfainstein@aol.com
Critiques of urban renewal and large-scale
developments throughout the world have
emphasized their negative environmental and
social consequences and particularly their
displacement effects. In the 1980s and 90s,
we saw a decline in such projects in many
places, responding to popular protest and
intellectual dissent, along with a new
emphasis on preservation. More recently,
however, we see the revival of
mega-projects, often connected with tourism
and sports development. This session will
present papers evaluating some of these new
ambitious projects in terms of their social
and spatial effects. In particular it will
investigate whether these interventions are
reducing or increasing urban inequality. The
comparison among different cities and
analyses of the differing roles of the
state, the private sector, and citizen
groups provides the basis for understanding
the implications of the new mega-projects.
PAPERS
Ute
Lehrer (York University, CAN)
Old mega-projects newly
packaged? Waterfront Redevelopment in
Toronto
Marisol
Garcia (Universidad de Barcelona, ES)
Monica Degen (Brunel
University, UK)
Barcelona - the breakdown of
a "virtuous model"?
Anne
Haila (University of Helsinki, FIN)
Contracts, development rights
and partnerships: Kampi megaprojects in
Helsinki
K.C.
Ho (National University of Singapore,
SP)
How do Mega Projects fit in
Urban Society
DISTRIBUTED PAPERS
Gemma Vila
and Jordi Gavalda (Universidad de
Barcelona, ES)
The Barcelona Model under
Scrutiny: Social Risks of Urban
Transformation
Robert Van Wynsberghe
(Royal Roads University, CAN)
2010 Olympic Games in
Vancouver
Session 10
Thursday, 27 July 2006, 13:30
- 15:30
University of South Africa,
UNISA, Room 2B-1
Property development and city
images
Organiser: Fernando Diaz Orueta, Universidad
de Alicante, Spain,
fernando.diaz@ua.es
Critiques of urban renewal and large-scale
developments throughout the world have
emphasized their negative environmental and
social consequences and particularly their
displacement effects. In the 1980s and 90s,
we saw a decline in such projects in many
places, responding to popular protest and
intellectual dissent, along with a new
emphasis on preservation. More recently,
however, we see the revival of
mega-projects, often connected with tourism
and sports development. This session will
present papers evaluating some of these new
ambitious projects in terms of their social
and spatial effects. In particular it will
investigate whether these interventions are
reducing or increasing urban inequality. The
comparison among different cities and
analyses of the differing roles of the
state, the private sector, and citizen
groups provides the basis for understanding
the implications of the new mega-projects.
PAPERS
Yilankaya Dikmen
(SUNY Binghamton, US)
The Politics of Urban
Waterfront Regeneration in Halic (The Golden
Horn), Istanbul
Monika
Grubbauer (TU Vienna, AU)
Modern Vienna -how large
scale-office developments shape the image(s)
of the city
Ricardo
Cruz de Vasconcelos (LSE, UK)
Lisbon Nation's Park or the
"city of the edge"
Gerardo del Cerro
(The Cooper Union for the Advancement of
Science and Art, US)
Urban Megaprojects,
Architecture and Globalization in Bilbao
DISTRIBUTED PAPERS
Malcolm Voyce
(Macquarie University, AUS)
Shopping Malls in Australia:
The End of Public Space and the Rise of
"Consumerist Citizenship"
Session 11
Thursday, 27 July 2006, 15:45
- 17:45
University of South Africa,
UNISA, Room 2B-1
Housing and segregation in
the paths of urban change
Organiser: Hartmut Haeussermann, Humboldt
University at Berlin, Germany,
hartmut.haeussermann@sowi.hu-berlin.de
Residential segregation by
ethnicity, race or class is one of the
central issues of urban studies since their
beginning. At the end of the 20th century
the thesis of urban 'polarisation' was
widely discussed. This perspective was very
often related to new city types like the
'global city'. But this 'theory' has been
criticized, and more and more evidence
shows, that the patterns of social and
spatial inequality are varying very much in
different countries and cities. This panel
should bring together researchers, who are
engaged in empirical work on changes of
patterns of segregation.
PAPERS
John Logan (Brown
University, US)
Global Neighbourhoods:
Managing Diversity in the U.S. Metropolis
Kuniko Fujita and Richard
Child Hill
(Michigan State University,
US)
Place Stratification in Two
Divergent World Cities: Tokyo and New York
Tim Butler and Chris Hamnett
(King’s College, UK)
The Class geography of black
and minority ethnic settlement in London,
1981-2001
Patrick Heller and Daniel
Schensul
(Brown University, US)
Transforming the Apartheid
City: The new spatial configuration of
Durban
DISTRIBUTED PAPERS
Anna Alabart Vilà, Gemma
Vilà, Jordi Gavaldà
(Universidad de Barcelona, ES)
Social Relations and Quality
of Life in the disperse City – the Case of
Barcelona
Session 12
Thursday, 27 July 2006, 18:00
- 20:00
University of South Africa,
UNISA, Room 2B-1
Segregation in the changing
urban scenario
Organiser: Chris Hamnett, King's College,
UK,
chris.hamnett@kcl.ac.uk
Residential segregation by
ethnicity, race or class is one of the
central issues of urban studies since their
beginning. At the end of the 20th
century the thesis of urban 'polarisation'
was widely discussed. This perspective was
very often related to new city types like
the 'global city'. But this 'theory' has
been criticized, and more and more evidence
shows, that the patterns of social and
spatial inequality are varying very much in
different countries and cities. This panel
should bring together researchers, who are
engaged in empirical work on changes of
patterns of segregation.
PAPERS
Ming YAN
(Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences, Beijing, CN)
The Social Costs of Urban
Redevelopment in China
Mercedes Di Virgilio, Hilda
María Herzer and Maria Carla Rodriguez (Facultad
de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos
Aires (BR)
Changes in Buenos Aires city.
Two dynamics and one process
Ranvinder Singh Sandhu (University
Amritsar, IN)
Social and Spatial
Segregation of Ex-untouchables in Modern
India
Jesus Leal (University
of Madrid, ES) Thomas Maloutas
(National Institute of Urban and Rural
Sociology, GR)
Housing and segregation in
European cities
DISTRIBUTED PAPERS
Ana Clara Demarchi Bellan
(FAU-USP, BR)
Spatial Segregation: Everyday
Life of the Dwellers in Sao Paolo
Marco Scalvini
(New York University, US)
Sick City. Comparing
segregation and spatial patterns of HIV/AIDS
in New York City
Session 13
Friday, 28 July 2006, 13:30 -
15:30
University of South Africa,
UNISA, Room 2B-1
The city of the future:
Towards ecologically sustainable urban
development
Organiser: Kuniko Fujita, Michigan State
University, USA,
fujitak@msu.edu
World wide urbanization is
clashing with nature's limit. Cities are
both prime contributors to the environmental
crisis and testing grounds for new,
eco-friendly practices. Is an ecologically
sustainable urban development possible? This
panel seeks papers that approach the future
city from perspectives of ecologically
sustainability. Contributors may focus on
case studies of environmental policies,
politics, and planning but sensitivity to
national and global contexts is also
important. Cross-national comparisons among
cities are especially desirable. Local
efforts to build solidarity around
environmental issues: establish sustainable
industries and employment; develop greener
patterns of consumption and styles of life;
institute incentives to motivate and
mechanisms to enforce conservation;
establish compatibility between visions of
ecological sustainability and a more
egalitarian and inclusive city; and engage
in learning networks with other cities are
among the issues authors might address.
PAPERS
Kazuhiro
Ueta (Kyoto University) and Mayuko
Shimizu (Kyoto University, JP)
Ecologically Sustainable
Urban Development in Japan
Xavier
Lemaire (University of Warwick, UK)
Environmental Justice and
Urban Environmental Indicators in
Birmingham, United Kingdom: "New Management"
or Public Relations?
Sheykhi Mohammad Taghi
(Al-Zahra University, IR)
Factors Contributing to Urban
and Environmental Health in Iran with a
Focus on Tehran
Ekhart Hahn
(University of Dortmund, DE)
Ecological Urban
Restructuring-Towards a New Post-modern
Symbiosis between Nature, Human Society and
Urbanism: Theory, Concept and Model Projects
Session 14
Friday, 28 July 2006, 15:45 -
17:45
Urban political action and
the quality of social life in cities
Special session on the Congress theme
Organisers: Justin Beaumont, University of
Groningen, Netherlands,
j.r.beaumont@rug.nl
and Walter Nicholls,
Queen Mary University of
London, UK,
w.nicholls@qmul.ac.uk
This session addresses the ways that various
forms of urban political action contribute
to (or limit) social integration and
enhanced quality of life for more deprived,
vulnerable and marginalized people in an era
of globalization. Previous and mostly
European investigations on this issue tend
to focus on the character of urban policy
interventions at various levels, the rise of
interactive strategies between multiple
'urban governance' agents, the socially
integrative function of local welfare
arrangements and area-based initiatives for
so-called distressed urban neighbourhoods.
The session confronts the European urban
tradition, rooted partly in Durkheim, with
one more closely associated with American
political science. In the spirit of De
Toqueville and Dahl, the US pluralist
tradition emphasises the importance of
autonomous associations in civil society
that mediate between the individual and the
state to ensure the plural and successive
influence of interest groups. Confronting
these traditions might improve our
understanding of the relationships between
urban political action, on the one hand, and
interventions for social integration and
enhanced quality of life for citizens of
cities on the other. The aim of the session
is to critically interrogate and examine
relations between urban political action and
its impact on the livelihoods (for better or
worse) of the urban poor. Inviting scholars
from a variety of disciplines (urban
sociology, urban planning, urban geography),
the session will also benefit from a growing
body of work devoted to urban governance and
politics, democratization and social justice
in South Africa. The general question is:
"How do various forms of political action
contribute to (or limit) social integration
and enhanced quality of life for more
deprived, vulnerable and marginalized people
in cities?"
PAPERS
Justin Beaumont
(University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Walter Nicholls (Queen Mary
University of London, UK)
Constrained deliberations:
associative governance and participatory
processes in Dutch and French deprived
neighbourhoods
Jan-Willem Duyvendak
(University of Amsterdam, NL)
Street-level citizenship: an
ethnography of active citizens in
disadvantaged neighbourhoods
Stavros
Stavrides (National Technical
University of Athens, GR)
Defending urban porosity:
residents struggling to protect a threatened
housing culture in an Athens prewar social
housing complex for refugees
Valeria Monno (Politecnico
di Bari, IT)
When participation succeeds?
a gender perspective from southern Italy
DISTRIBUTED PAPERS
Paula Jiron
(LSE, UK) The
practices of daily urban mobilities (UDM) to
understand urban quality of life in Santiago
de Chile
Hugo Noble
(University of South Africa,
Johannesburg, ZA)
Local economic development
and broad based black economic empowerment:
antipoverty straetegy for South African
cities?
Session 15
Friday, 28 July 2006, 18:00 -
20:00
University of South Africa,
UNISA, Room 2B-1
Multiculturalism and the
values of urban diversity
Organisers: John Eade, Roehampton
University, UK,
j.eade@roehampton.ac.uk
Living with ethnic diversity has become one
of the key challenges in our times of
growing transnational flow and
civilizational clash. Yet, much of the
debate on models of integration, such as
multiculturalism, remains largely at the
national level, while the real business of
negotiating ethnic and cultural diversity
unfolds at the level of everyday urban
practices and experiences. This session is
interested in exploring how the urban, as
context and as lived arena, shapes
performances and attitudes towards the
other. It is keen to explore the relevance
of anxiety, hate and suspicion, but also
their opposites in framing practices towards
the stranger. It is also keen to explore
normative and policy options at varying
spatial scales of interaction for
negotiating diversity in positive ways.
Sophie Watson
(The Open University, UK)
Desperately Seeking Security:
the contemporary city of fear
Giovanni
Semi (University of Milano, IT)
The
symbolic economy of ethnicity: consuming
Moroccan culture in Turin’s gentrified
inner-city.
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
(University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champain, US)
Do you think multiculturalism
is nice? Try globalization
Session 16
Saturday, 29 July 2006, 13:30
- 15:30
University of South Africa,
UNISA, Room 2B-1
FREE SLOT
Session 17
Saturday, 29 July 2006, 15:45
- 17:45
University of South Africa,
UNISA, Room 2B-1
The changing cultures of
cities
Organiser: Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College,
USA,
Zukin@brooklyn.cuny.edu
During the past few decades, cities have
been repopulated and re-imagined by
structural changes suggested by the
shorthand terms of globalization,
gentrification, and liberalization of
markets. Immigrant quarters have grown in
both historic cores and distant suburbs,
world-class buildings tower over waterfronts
and heritage sites, and public spaces such
as shopping centres support the performance
of new urban cultures.
PAPERS
Annika
Teppo (University of Helsinki, FIN)
Sacred Spaces and the
Indigenisation of Magic in Cape Town
Ayse
Saktanber (Middle East Technical
University, TR)
Historical Memory and New
Cultural Images of Ankara
Veronica
Sales Pereira (Centro
Universitario Belas Artes, BR)
Discourses of Memory and
Revitalization of Deindustrialized Areas in
Sao Paolo
Jean-Pierre Hassoun
(Ecole Normale Superieure,
FR)
Tousa Brick: Modernization of
an Ethnic Enterprise in a Parisian Suburb
DISTRIBUTED PAPERS
Giovanni
Semi (University of Milano, IT)
Symbolic Economy of Ethnicity
in Turin
Session 18
Saturday, 29 July 2006, 18:00
- 20:00
University of South Africa,
UNISA, Room 2B-1
Travelling concepts and
ideas: implications for urban research
Organiser: Licia Valladares,
Université de Lille 1, France and IUPERJ,
Brazil,
licia.valladares@univ-lille1.fr
The literature on urban sociology is full of
«travelling» categories and concepts some of
which have gained great notoriety and have
become international paradigms used
frequently by social scientists. From the
Anglo-American to the French world (and
vice-versa) and from the North to the South
( and vice-versa) one has seen the adoption
of such categories and concepts to analyse
similar phenomena in different
socio-economic and political contexts as
well as in different times. Some examples
are «community», «marginality» ,
«informality», «ghetto», «favela», «the
underclass», «social exclusion»,
«gentrification», «social capital»,
«governance». The translation and
re-appropriation of such categories by
different intellectual milieux is a
matter that deserves attention namely at the
present time when comparative research is
more and more stimulated by universities and
funding agencies.
This session will deal with
the issue of transposition and shifting
meanings of concepts and their consequences
for urban research and for their results.
Papers will particularly
discuss the reasons why different discourses
have chosen to transform local categories
into generic ones and will illustrate
through concrete examples the use and misuse
of categories and concepts.
PAPERS
Enzo Mingione
(University of Milan-Bicocca,
IT) Alberta Andreotti (University of
Milan-Bicocca, IT)
Historisizing the concept of Social Capital
Hélène Thomas
(Université de Paris 13, FR)
Are exclusion and
vulnerability all-encompassing and
travelling patterns ?
Marc Bernardot (University
of Lille 1, FR)
From Periphery to Centre,
between exception and ordinariness : the
internement as way of constrained housing.
Margareth da Silva Pereira
(Universidade Federal do Rio
de Janeiro, BR)
Metropolitans and
Communitarians : the role played by the
international Rotary Club and the urban
planning network in Brazil (1905-1945).
DISTRIBUTED PAPERS
Yankel Fijelkow (Université
Paris 7 Denis Diderot)
Gentrification : a migration
concept in Paris (1970-2005)
Licia Valladares
(University of Lille 1, FR)
A favela is neither a slum
nor a ghetto.
Integrative Sessions of Research Committee
on Regional and Urban Development RC21,
Research Committee on Environment and
Society RC24 and Research Committee on
Social Classes and Social Movements RC47
To be held in the morning
09:00 - 12:00; date and place to be
comfirmed
Environmental challenges of
city-regions in a globalizing world
Organisers: Pierre Hamel, University of
Montreal, Canada
pierre.hamel@umontreal.ca
and Louis Guay, University of Laval, Canada,
louis.guay@soc.ulaval.ca
City-regions are increasingly on the top of
the agenda of territorial public policy.
This is related to demographic and spatial
change, but also to the expansion of the
knowledge economy at a global scale. Beyond
the new urban hierarchy -- which goes hand
in hand with an increasing concentration of
capitalist accumulation -- emerging out of
demographic and economic changes,
environmental issues are becoming paramount
and multifaceted. They are linked to urban
sprawl, to the quality of city life as well
as to the capacity of local and metropolitan
governments to manage environmental
controversies. The objective of this panel
is above all to assess the importance of
environmental issues and their relationships
to other aspects of city-region's
development in a comparative perspective. In
what terms do environmental challenges are
defined by social and political actors
within city-regions? Under what conditions
is urban development in city-regions
compatible with environmental protection? To
what extent does environmental justice can
be considered a main concern of metropolitan
governance? These questions are only a small
sample of the environmental concerns of city
regions' development. Nevertheless, we think
that if the development of city-regions is
on the urban agenda, this question cannot be
deal with without taking into account
environmental issues. This is mainly what we
intend to explore in the session.
PAPERS
Frans C. Verhagen
(Sustainable Communities Consultation for
Metro NY, US)
Transitioning Environmental
Sociology to a Sociology of Sustainability:
Problems and Opportunities.
Roger Keil
(York University, CAN)
Metabolizing Toronto:
Rethinking Urban Political Ecology in the
Global City Region
Robert D. Bullard Clark
(Atlanta University, USA)
Beverly Wright
Xavier
(University of Louisiana, USA)
Environmental Costs and
Consequences of Sprawl Development in the
United States: Building Environmental
Justice and Regional Equity Initiatives
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