CEEDR Research Seminars in Enterprise and Regeneration, Spring 2008
Seminars are held at Hendon Town Hall, adjacent to Middlesex University’s
Hendon campus. Details of how to get here are at:
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/campus/campuses/hendon/travel.asp
All very welcome! - but please notify Ian Vickers to confirm a place:
i.vickers@mdx.ac.uk
Wednesday, 27 February 4.00pm-6.00pm, Room CR2, Hendon Town Hall
Dr Anne Green, Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick:
“Labour Market Impacts of Migrant Workers in the Midlands and Implications
for Policy”
Wednesday 12 March 4.00pm-6.00pm, Room CR2, Hendon Town Hall
Dr Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes, Senior Research Officer, Higher Education
Directorate, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills & Centre
for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship De Montfort University
Leicester:
“Student, Graduate and Academic International Entrepreneurship: Patterns,
Facilitators and Barriers”
Wednesday 23 April 4.00pm-6.00pm, Room CR2 Hendon Town Hall
Professor Fergus Lyon, CEEDR:
“Pushing Enterprise & Entrepreneurship in the Delivery of Public Services:
The Case of Education and Health Services”
Wednesday 28 May 4.00pm-6.00pm, Room CR2 Hendon Town Hall
Professor David North, Professor Stephen Syrett, Dr David Etherington,
CEEDR:
“Political Devolution, Regional Governance & Tackling Deprivation”
Ian Vickers (Dr)
Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research,
Middlesex University Business School,
The Burroughs, London NW4 4BT.
Tel: + 44 (0)20 8411 6604
Fax: + 44 (0)20 8411 6607
Friday 1 February 2008
Wednesday 30 January 2008
Art, Culture and Economic Development: New Directions for the Growth of Cities and Regions
CALL FOR PAPERS
(Deadline: May 31, 2008)
Art, Culture and Economic Development:
New Directions for the Growth of Cities and Regions
Dear Colleagues,
The Journal of Planning Education and Research (JPER) seeks submissions for a symposium on Art, Culture and Economic Development based on the issues raised in a series of Economic Development sessions at the 2006 and 2007 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning meetings. The theme is: “Art, Culture and Economic Development: New Directions for the Growth of Cities and Regions.”
Urban and planning scholars have long been focused on the social and economic dynamics that are necessary for the growth of cities and regions, and thus economic development has become a central line of urban research. Researchers have explored the variables that play – or appear to play – significant roles in the development of place. Such discussions (and debates) have revolved around recruiting industries, developing tourism, generating exports, attracting a “creative class”, and so forth. Increasingly, art and culture have become an important part of these discussions.
Within the realm of economic development, art and culture have been considered through several lenses including: the role of cultural amenities in attracting human capital, cultural tourism and large-scale development (and the ensuing “Disneyfication” development) and artists as instruments in revitalization of neighborhoods. Increasingly, art and culture have also been looked at seriously as important contributors to economic growth with regard to jobs, revenue and innovation. Within these various aspects of art and culture’s role in development, scholars have gone to great lengths to look at more specific cases and issues surrounding some of these themes.
Researchers and practitioners are grappling with a number of exciting challenges and prospects in defining art and culture’s role in economic development and planning. With this in mind, the special editor of this symposium invites colleagues to submit papers considering art and culture’s new role in economic development. While this topic can be broadly considered, the following themes/questions may be useful guidance.
1. What new methods ought to be introduced in studying art and culture? Should different social sciences fields, such as planning, geography, sociology and economics, borrow from each other in an effort to better understand art and culture and in order to develop arts-directed policy and planning?
2. What is the relationship between art, culture and economic development? Should we be looking at ways to incorporate the arts into economic development for other outcomes or is the outcome to support art and culture? In other words, is cultivating art and culture a variable for a larger goal (e.g. attracting firms, generating tourism) or is it the goal itself?
3. If art and culture have become important variables in current economic development why are particular places/cities/regions more concentrated sites of cultural production than others? (For example, scholars have noted Los Angeles’ dominance in film or New York’s concentration of fashion designers.) What might be the social and economic explanations for this uneven distribution?
4. Scholars have pointed to the use of culture in large-scale redevelopment of places such as Times Square. They have also noted that such development has had the unwanted Disneyfication effect that has been criticized for being homogeneous and unauthentic. Others have argued that art and culture play key roles in cultivating local “authenticity”. How has art and culture been incorporated in economic development previously and for what aims? Are these goals inline with more general planning and development sentiments? How are they different?
5. If we are to argue that art and culture are important to economic development, both as catalysts of development for other firms and populations and as agents of growth in their own right, then how exactly do we structure economic development planning and policy? We must understand how these industries work in the first place. Foremost, what are the networks (social and economic), institutions and resources that art and culture require in their development and growth? How do art and culture development link to broader urban and regional development?
6. And finally, what do we mean by art and culture? Is it galleries and museums of international repute or is it the street life of bohemia? Is it culture that can be “commodified” such as fashion, film and music or does smaller scale, symbolic production, such as small music venues and graffiti art, play an important role as well? What are the parameters of art and culture and how do we justify them?
As art and culture become increasingly discussed in the economic development debates, we must further push ourselves to define the themes, terms and methodologies that are part and parcel of our understanding and conceptualization of their role in growth and development. This JPER symposium hopes to begin to unpack these issues and instigate further research and debate on this timely topic.
The special editor of this symposium is Elizabeth Currid, Assistant Professor, School of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California, currid@usc.edu (email) or 213-740-4012 (phone). If you have an interest in preparing a manuscript for this symposium or have any questions, please contact me.
Symposium manuscripts will be reviewed under the normal JPER review process. Submissions should be made via the electronic system available at http://services.bepress.com/jper/ . The deadline for submission of manuscripts to JPER for consideration as a part of this symposium is May 31, 2008.
(Deadline: May 31, 2008)
Art, Culture and Economic Development:
New Directions for the Growth of Cities and Regions
Dear Colleagues,
The Journal of Planning Education and Research (JPER) seeks submissions for a symposium on Art, Culture and Economic Development based on the issues raised in a series of Economic Development sessions at the 2006 and 2007 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning meetings. The theme is: “Art, Culture and Economic Development: New Directions for the Growth of Cities and Regions.”
Urban and planning scholars have long been focused on the social and economic dynamics that are necessary for the growth of cities and regions, and thus economic development has become a central line of urban research. Researchers have explored the variables that play – or appear to play – significant roles in the development of place. Such discussions (and debates) have revolved around recruiting industries, developing tourism, generating exports, attracting a “creative class”, and so forth. Increasingly, art and culture have become an important part of these discussions.
Within the realm of economic development, art and culture have been considered through several lenses including: the role of cultural amenities in attracting human capital, cultural tourism and large-scale development (and the ensuing “Disneyfication” development) and artists as instruments in revitalization of neighborhoods. Increasingly, art and culture have also been looked at seriously as important contributors to economic growth with regard to jobs, revenue and innovation. Within these various aspects of art and culture’s role in development, scholars have gone to great lengths to look at more specific cases and issues surrounding some of these themes.
Researchers and practitioners are grappling with a number of exciting challenges and prospects in defining art and culture’s role in economic development and planning. With this in mind, the special editor of this symposium invites colleagues to submit papers considering art and culture’s new role in economic development. While this topic can be broadly considered, the following themes/questions may be useful guidance.
1. What new methods ought to be introduced in studying art and culture? Should different social sciences fields, such as planning, geography, sociology and economics, borrow from each other in an effort to better understand art and culture and in order to develop arts-directed policy and planning?
2. What is the relationship between art, culture and economic development? Should we be looking at ways to incorporate the arts into economic development for other outcomes or is the outcome to support art and culture? In other words, is cultivating art and culture a variable for a larger goal (e.g. attracting firms, generating tourism) or is it the goal itself?
3. If art and culture have become important variables in current economic development why are particular places/cities/regions more concentrated sites of cultural production than others? (For example, scholars have noted Los Angeles’ dominance in film or New York’s concentration of fashion designers.) What might be the social and economic explanations for this uneven distribution?
4. Scholars have pointed to the use of culture in large-scale redevelopment of places such as Times Square. They have also noted that such development has had the unwanted Disneyfication effect that has been criticized for being homogeneous and unauthentic. Others have argued that art and culture play key roles in cultivating local “authenticity”. How has art and culture been incorporated in economic development previously and for what aims? Are these goals inline with more general planning and development sentiments? How are they different?
5. If we are to argue that art and culture are important to economic development, both as catalysts of development for other firms and populations and as agents of growth in their own right, then how exactly do we structure economic development planning and policy? We must understand how these industries work in the first place. Foremost, what are the networks (social and economic), institutions and resources that art and culture require in their development and growth? How do art and culture development link to broader urban and regional development?
6. And finally, what do we mean by art and culture? Is it galleries and museums of international repute or is it the street life of bohemia? Is it culture that can be “commodified” such as fashion, film and music or does smaller scale, symbolic production, such as small music venues and graffiti art, play an important role as well? What are the parameters of art and culture and how do we justify them?
As art and culture become increasingly discussed in the economic development debates, we must further push ourselves to define the themes, terms and methodologies that are part and parcel of our understanding and conceptualization of their role in growth and development. This JPER symposium hopes to begin to unpack these issues and instigate further research and debate on this timely topic.
The special editor of this symposium is Elizabeth Currid, Assistant Professor, School of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California, currid@usc.edu (email) or 213-740-4012 (phone). If you have an interest in preparing a manuscript for this symposium or have any questions, please contact me.
Symposium manuscripts will be reviewed under the normal JPER review process. Submissions should be made via the electronic system available at http://services.bepress.com/jper/ . The deadline for submission of manuscripts to JPER for consideration as a part of this symposium is May 31, 2008.
BBC report on 'Time to deliver regeneration'
See: ** 'Time to deliver' on regeneration **
Projects to improve deprived areas of Wales are told to deliver practical improvements to the areas they serve.
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/wales/7216003.stm >
Projects to improve deprived areas of Wales are told to deliver practical improvements to the areas they serve.
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/wales/7216003.stm >
Tuesday 29 January 2008
Proposed PyGyRG sessions at this year's RGS/IBG conference
Please contact the individual session convenors if you are interested in a particular session - AND NOTE THE LOOMING DEADLINES!
・ GEOGRAPHY, RESPONSIBILITY AND THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH
・ POSTGRADUATE GEOGRAPHY MATTERS? PARTICIPATORY GEOGRAPHIES
・ ORGANIC PUBLIC GEOGRAPHIES
・ GEOGRAPHIES OF IN/DIFFERENCE: WHOSE GEOGRAPHIES MATTER?
・ GEOGRAPHY MATTERS....BUT DOES GEOGRAPHY?
GEOGRAPHY, RESPONSIBILITY AND THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH
Session Convenors: Sophie Wynne-Jones and Kelvin Mason (Aberystwyth University)
In light of the increasingly pressing debate about the effects and implications of global climate change, this session raises the question of how geographers are participating in both debate and, perhaps more significantly, actions - to address this impending crisis. We hope to consider the role of geographers in their academic life, as global and community activists, and as people, whose everyday choices and lifestyles implicate the shape of our global future. To reflect these sometimes disparate aspects of our lives, and their associated responsibilities, we suggest the session focuses upon the following themes:
1. How geographers contribute, as professionals, within the institutional setting of the university; through, for example, research and teaching that is directly or indirectly associated with climate change. What type of research is being done and how does this research contribute to further both action and debate? To what extent does current teaching reflect, and allow the student community to develop debate around, these issues?
2. What else are geographers doing, as a direct response to climate change, within the university setting? Are they involved in environmental auditing of, for example, university related transport, the energy consumption in university buildings? To what extent are geographers a voice for more responsible action within the university more widely and, even creating links and support networks for associated community actions?
3. What do we do outside our day jobs? Are we activists? Do we bring our activism to work? What do we do on a day to day basis - as everyday citizens- to effect wider change or simply to relieve our conscience?
As a summary to these themes, on what we are doing, we would also like to consider what we could - and perhaps should - be doing.
PLEASE SEND ABSTRACTS TO svw05@aber.ac.uk BY FEB' 7TH
It is suggested that papers could be kept short to allow for plenty of discussion and if people wish to air shorter accounts of actions, ideas or problems that they are grappling with, these will also be welcomed.
POSTGRADUATE GEOGRAPHY MATTERS? PARTICIPATORY GEOGRAPHIES
Sponsored by: The Postgraduate Forum (PGF) and The Participatory Geographies Working Group (PyGyWG)
Session Convenor: Thomas Astell-Burt
Abstract submission deadline: 7th February 2008
Building on the success of 2007, the PGF and PyGyWG are hosting another forum for any postgraduates and/or early-career researchers involved in projects that utilise participatory methodologies. The session provides an arena in which postgraduate students can present research-in-progress, as well as to obtain feedback from peers and established academics. The sessions showcase the wide range of research being undertaken by postgraduates at both UK and international universities. Papers will be of 10-15 minutes in duration and each speaker will have up to 5 minutes of question time.
Papers are encouraged from all areas of geographical research using participatory methods and from postgraduate students at any stage of their careers (including Masters' students).
If you are interested in participating in this session, please email abstracts (not exceeding 200 words), your full name and University to Thomas Astell-Burt ( postgraduateforum@googlemail.com) by 7th February 2008.
ORGANIC PUBLIC GEOGRAPHIES
Proposed session at RGS/IBG 2008, sponsored by the Participatory Geographies Working Group and the Public Geographies Working Group, Birmingham University
Session Convenors: Duncan Fuller and Ian Cook
‘Organic public sociology’ is undertaken ‘in close connection with a visible, thick, active, local and often counter-public’, with sociologists working with groups of various kinds, engaging in ‘dialogue’, or what Michael Burawoy terms ‘a process of mutual education’. Much of this type of work is treated as ‘private’, ‘invisible’ and/or separate from ‘our professional lives’ (2005, 265) largely, it is suggested, as either a consequence of days being filled with the undertaking of such activities, leaving little time to actually document them, or because the collaborative outputs from such work are often published outside academic circles. A key task of any public sociology, Burawoy continues, is therefore to ‘make visible the invisible, to make the private public, [and] to validate these organic connections as part of our sociological life…’ (2005: 264-5).
In the age of ‘boring' school geography, at a time when a new field of ‘public geographies’ seems to be taking shape, this session aims to make visible and validate processes of, and/or 'outputs' from, organic public geographies - perhaps web-sites, brainwaves, activism, emails, chapters, radio, presentations, blogs, events, demonstrations, letters, participations, diaries, posters, videos, podcasts, engagements, television programmes, communities, wikis, reports, newsletters, experiences...
Please send submissions, ‘abstracts’, ideas, examples etc by 7th February 2008 to:
duncan.fuller@northumbria.ac.uk
I.J.Cook@exeter.ac.uk
…and we’ll build the session around you.
Call for participants; INVITACION A PARTICIPAR COMO PANELISTA: パネルディスカッション参加者募集のお知らせ
GEOGRAPHIES OF IN/DIFFERENCE: WHOSE GEOGRAPHIES MATTER?
Convenors: Kye Askins, Northumbria Uni. kye.askins@unn.ac.uk
Jo Norcup, Glasgow Uni. Jo.Norcup@ges.gla.ac.uk
This session stems from a lunchtime discussion at the International Conference of Critical Geography in Mumbai, Dec. 2007, during which comments were made regarding the presences/absences of geographers from across the world at the event. While we recognise that there are multiple reasons for not attending any conference (financial, practical, personal, ethical, epistemological …, differing across contexts and placings), there also seemed to be an underlying tension regarding the dominance of Anglo-American production of knowledges: a sense that ICCG was somehow peripheral among many geographers to the ‘Real World/Work’ of AAG and RGS.
So we would like to further/re-open debate regarding the in/exclusions of academic knowledges, inviting volunteers for a panel session to address issues such as - and not limited to:
How can/do academics outside and within the US/UK academic context engage with one another?
Where and in what kind of spaces does this happen?
Can the continued dominance of English in journal/text productions - and conference presentations - be shifted, and where/how is this already happening?
What does it mean for the discipline as a whole, and academics across different places/countries, to have a differentiated and hierarchical system?
Are we being presumptuous in writing that US/UK geographies/ers are central and ‘Other’ geographies/ers excluded?
And we would expect discussion to incorporate corresponding and relevant issues regarding the broader question regarding ‘whose knowledge counts’ (after Chambers), challenging the academic-as-expert construction ...
We intend to have translators at the session, hopefully for Spanish, Japanese and French speakers - VOLUNTEERS WELCOME!
If you’d be interested in being a panel member - or have general comments about this proposed session - please let us know!
GEOGRAPHY MATTERS....BUT DOES GEOGRAPHY?
Session organisers: Heaven Crawley (Swansea University), Peter Hopkins (Newcastle University), Larch Maxey (Swansea University)
The relationship between the social and the spatial - between social processes on the one hand and the fact and form of their spatial organisation on the other - clearly matters (Massey 1984). Perhaps less clear is the extent to which Geography as a discipline, and the geographical practices undertaken by academic geographers, matters to the world that it seeks to describe and explain.
The relevance or otherwise of Geography has been the subject of ongoing, and sometimes heated, debate within the discipline (Imrie 2004; Beaumont, Loopmans and Uitermark 2005; Mountz and Walton-Roberts 2006). These discussions suggest that the issue of what makes geographical research, teaching and publication relevant cannot be separated from the questions of why research, for example, should be relevant, how research becomes relevant, the goals of research, and for whom it is intended to be relevant (Staeheli and Mitchell 2005). They also suggest that whilst relevance can be direct and intended, a commitment to relevant research requires a long-term view and an appreciation for the indirect pathways of relevance. This means much more than simply promoting Geography as a discipline; it also requires geographers to grapple more frequently with multi-scale questions, including the big questions of our time, foster more in-depth understanding of different geographies, enhance !
interactions between discrete parts of the discipline and with other disciplines, and make explicit the implications of geographical work for the discussions that are shaping public, political and intellectual agendas (Alexander 2006).
This session will explore the relevance of Geography to the making of public policy and to broader public and political discourses. It will also explore the extent to which an emphasis on the distinctiveness of Geography as a discipline (a trend which has arguably been exacerbated by the RAE process) is helpful in the production of policy-relevant research.
And it will consider the extent to which participatory approaches to Geography - with their origins in grassroots activism and social movements - are able to affect social change and empowerment by giving a voice to those who are most marginalised from policy and decision making processes.
Call for papers:
Contributors to this session are invited to submit papers which explore the relevance of Geography and of geographical research to policy making and to broader processes of social and political change. Papers that directly address the following questions will be particularly welcomed:
* Do the methodological and philosophical approaches that we adopt influence the extent to which our research, teaching and dissemination matters to the people and processes with which we engage? Do participatory approaches to research, for example, provide a mechanism for affecting social change regardless of the ‘policy relevance’ of research?
* Which geographical practices matter? Why and to whom? Does a concern for relevance include research, teaching and dissemination? Should it? Are there other practices which constitute ‘Geography’ beyond this triad?
* Is it helpful to emphasise the relevance of Geography as a discipline when engaging with policy makers, practitioners and others interested in what we have to say? Are interdisciplinary approaches more useful in describing and explaining complex social issues and processes? Does the potential relevance of Geography lie in its role as an ‘inter-disciplinary pivot’ (Fulong 2002)?
* Given the complex relationship between research evidence and policy formation, how do we ensure that the research we do is most able to affect change? In what ways is it important that the research we do is politically as well as policy relevant?
Session format:
We are keen to encourage audience participation in the themes of this session and to use it as a springboard from which to increase the relevance of Geography. Therefore the session will consist of three x 20 minute papers with ample time for questions and discussion. If a sufficient number of proposed papers are submitted then it may be necessary for two 1 hr 40 minute sessions to be set aside for this topic.
The papers will be themed and contributors will be asked to engage directly with the content of other papers in the session where appropriate. The session(s) will be chaired by the session organisers.
Abstracts (max. 200 words) should be sent to h.crawley@swansea.ac.uk , l.maxey@swansea.ac.uk and Peter.Hopkins@newcastle.ac.uk by 11th February 2008. All those submitting abstracts will be informed of the outcome of the process by 18th February.
If you would like to discuss the aims, objectives and format of the session before submitting your abstract please contact Heaven Crawley on
01792 602409 or email h.crawley@swansea.ac.uk
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Dr Duncan Fuller
Enterprise Fellow
Division of Geography
Ellison Building D Block
Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST
Direct Tel - 0191 2273753
Fax - 0191 2273519
Divisional Office - 0191 2273428
Mywalks - www.northumbria.ac.uk/mywalks
PEANuT (Participatory Evaluation and Appraisal in Newcastle upon Tyne) - http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/peanut
Mapping Tranquillity - http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/tranquillity
Exploring solutions to 'graffiti' in Newcastle upon Tyne - http://northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sas/sas_research/pa/consultres/graffiti/
'Local to me': Advancing Financial Inclusion in Newcastle upon Tyne - http://northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sas/sas_research/pa/consultres/local/?view=Standard
Participatory Geographies Working Group of the RGS/IBG (PyGyWG)- http://www.pygywg.org
Geo-publishing.org - http://www.may.ie/nirsa/geo-pub/geo-pub.html
Radical Theory/Critical Praxis: Making a Difference Beyond the Academy?
http://www.praxis-epress.org/availablebooks/radicaltheorycriticalpraxis.html
The Academics Guide to Publishing - http://www.sagepub.co.uk/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book226599&currTree=Subjects&level1=P00 OR http://www.amazon.com/Academics-Guide-Publishing-Rob-Kitchin/dp/1412900832
・ GEOGRAPHY, RESPONSIBILITY AND THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH
・ POSTGRADUATE GEOGRAPHY MATTERS? PARTICIPATORY GEOGRAPHIES
・ ORGANIC PUBLIC GEOGRAPHIES
・ GEOGRAPHIES OF IN/DIFFERENCE: WHOSE GEOGRAPHIES MATTER?
・ GEOGRAPHY MATTERS....BUT DOES GEOGRAPHY?
GEOGRAPHY, RESPONSIBILITY AND THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH
Session Convenors: Sophie Wynne-Jones and Kelvin Mason (Aberystwyth University)
In light of the increasingly pressing debate about the effects and implications of global climate change, this session raises the question of how geographers are participating in both debate and, perhaps more significantly, actions - to address this impending crisis. We hope to consider the role of geographers in their academic life, as global and community activists, and as people, whose everyday choices and lifestyles implicate the shape of our global future. To reflect these sometimes disparate aspects of our lives, and their associated responsibilities, we suggest the session focuses upon the following themes:
1. How geographers contribute, as professionals, within the institutional setting of the university; through, for example, research and teaching that is directly or indirectly associated with climate change. What type of research is being done and how does this research contribute to further both action and debate? To what extent does current teaching reflect, and allow the student community to develop debate around, these issues?
2. What else are geographers doing, as a direct response to climate change, within the university setting? Are they involved in environmental auditing of, for example, university related transport, the energy consumption in university buildings? To what extent are geographers a voice for more responsible action within the university more widely and, even creating links and support networks for associated community actions?
3. What do we do outside our day jobs? Are we activists? Do we bring our activism to work? What do we do on a day to day basis - as everyday citizens- to effect wider change or simply to relieve our conscience?
As a summary to these themes, on what we are doing, we would also like to consider what we could - and perhaps should - be doing.
PLEASE SEND ABSTRACTS TO svw05@aber.ac.uk
It is suggested that papers could be kept short to allow for plenty of discussion and if people wish to air shorter accounts of actions, ideas or problems that they are grappling with, these will also be welcomed.
POSTGRADUATE GEOGRAPHY MATTERS? PARTICIPATORY GEOGRAPHIES
Sponsored by: The Postgraduate Forum (PGF) and The Participatory Geographies Working Group (PyGyWG)
Session Convenor: Thomas Astell-Burt
Abstract submission deadline: 7th February 2008
Building on the success of 2007, the PGF and PyGyWG are hosting another forum for any postgraduates and/or early-career researchers involved in projects that utilise participatory methodologies. The session provides an arena in which postgraduate students can present research-in-progress, as well as to obtain feedback from peers and established academics. The sessions showcase the wide range of research being undertaken by postgraduates at both UK and international universities. Papers will be of 10-15 minutes in duration and each speaker will have up to 5 minutes of question time.
Papers are encouraged from all areas of geographical research using participatory methods and from postgraduate students at any stage of their careers (including Masters' students).
If you are interested in participating in this session, please email abstracts (not exceeding 200 words), your full name and University to Thomas Astell-Burt ( postgraduateforum@googlemail.com) by 7th February 2008.
ORGANIC PUBLIC GEOGRAPHIES
Proposed session at RGS/IBG 2008, sponsored by the Participatory Geographies Working Group and the Public Geographies Working Group, Birmingham University
Session Convenors: Duncan Fuller and Ian Cook
‘Organic public sociology’ is undertaken ‘in close connection with a visible, thick, active, local and often counter-public’, with sociologists working with groups of various kinds, engaging in ‘dialogue’, or what Michael Burawoy terms ‘a process of mutual education’. Much of this type of work is treated as ‘private’, ‘invisible’ and/or separate from ‘our professional lives’ (2005, 265) largely, it is suggested, as either a consequence of days being filled with the undertaking of such activities, leaving little time to actually document them, or because the collaborative outputs from such work are often published outside academic circles. A key task of any public sociology, Burawoy continues, is therefore to ‘make visible the invisible, to make the private public, [and] to validate these organic connections as part of our sociological life…’ (2005: 264-5).
In the age of ‘boring' school geography, at a time when a new field of ‘public geographies’ seems to be taking shape, this session aims to make visible and validate processes of, and/or 'outputs' from, organic public geographies - perhaps web-sites, brainwaves, activism, emails, chapters, radio, presentations, blogs, events, demonstrations, letters, participations, diaries, posters, videos, podcasts, engagements, television programmes, communities, wikis, reports, newsletters, experiences...
Please send submissions, ‘abstracts’, ideas, examples etc by 7th February 2008 to:
duncan.fuller@northumbria.ac.uk
I.J.Cook@exeter.ac.uk
…and we’ll build the session around you.
Call for participants; INVITACION A PARTICIPAR COMO PANELISTA: パネルディスカッション参加者募集のお知らせ
GEOGRAPHIES OF IN/DIFFERENCE: WHOSE GEOGRAPHIES MATTER?
Convenors: Kye Askins, Northumbria Uni. kye.askins@unn.ac.uk
Jo Norcup, Glasgow Uni. Jo.Norcup@ges.gla.ac.uk
This session stems from a lunchtime discussion at the International Conference of Critical Geography in Mumbai, Dec. 2007, during which comments were made regarding the presences/absences of geographers from across the world at the event. While we recognise that there are multiple reasons for not attending any conference (financial, practical, personal, ethical, epistemological …, differing across contexts and placings), there also seemed to be an underlying tension regarding the dominance of Anglo-American production of knowledges: a sense that ICCG was somehow peripheral among many geographers to the ‘Real World/Work’ of AAG and RGS.
So we would like to further/re-open debate regarding the in/exclusions of academic knowledges, inviting volunteers for a panel session to address issues such as - and not limited to:
How can/do academics outside and within the US/UK academic context engage with one another?
Where and in what kind of spaces does this happen?
Can the continued dominance of English in journal/text productions - and conference presentations - be shifted, and where/how is this already happening?
What does it mean for the discipline as a whole, and academics across different places/countries, to have a differentiated and hierarchical system?
Are we being presumptuous in writing that US/UK geographies/ers are central and ‘Other’ geographies/ers excluded?
And we would expect discussion to incorporate corresponding and relevant issues regarding the broader question regarding ‘whose knowledge counts’ (after Chambers), challenging the academic-as-expert construction ...
We intend to have translators at the session, hopefully for Spanish, Japanese and French speakers - VOLUNTEERS WELCOME!
If you’d be interested in being a panel member - or have general comments about this proposed session - please let us know!
GEOGRAPHY MATTERS....BUT DOES GEOGRAPHY?
Session organisers: Heaven Crawley (Swansea University), Peter Hopkins (Newcastle University), Larch Maxey (Swansea University)
The relationship between the social and the spatial - between social processes on the one hand and the fact and form of their spatial organisation on the other - clearly matters (Massey 1984). Perhaps less clear is the extent to which Geography as a discipline, and the geographical practices undertaken by academic geographers, matters to the world that it seeks to describe and explain.
The relevance or otherwise of Geography has been the subject of ongoing, and sometimes heated, debate within the discipline (Imrie 2004; Beaumont, Loopmans and Uitermark 2005; Mountz and Walton-Roberts 2006). These discussions suggest that the issue of what makes geographical research, teaching and publication relevant cannot be separated from the questions of why research, for example, should be relevant, how research becomes relevant, the goals of research, and for whom it is intended to be relevant (Staeheli and Mitchell 2005). They also suggest that whilst relevance can be direct and intended, a commitment to relevant research requires a long-term view and an appreciation for the indirect pathways of relevance. This means much more than simply promoting Geography as a discipline; it also requires geographers to grapple more frequently with multi-scale questions, including the big questions of our time, foster more in-depth understanding of different geographies, enhance !
interactions between discrete parts of the discipline and with other disciplines, and make explicit the implications of geographical work for the discussions that are shaping public, political and intellectual agendas (Alexander 2006).
This session will explore the relevance of Geography to the making of public policy and to broader public and political discourses. It will also explore the extent to which an emphasis on the distinctiveness of Geography as a discipline (a trend which has arguably been exacerbated by the RAE process) is helpful in the production of policy-relevant research.
And it will consider the extent to which participatory approaches to Geography - with their origins in grassroots activism and social movements - are able to affect social change and empowerment by giving a voice to those who are most marginalised from policy and decision making processes.
Call for papers:
Contributors to this session are invited to submit papers which explore the relevance of Geography and of geographical research to policy making and to broader processes of social and political change. Papers that directly address the following questions will be particularly welcomed:
* Do the methodological and philosophical approaches that we adopt influence the extent to which our research, teaching and dissemination matters to the people and processes with which we engage? Do participatory approaches to research, for example, provide a mechanism for affecting social change regardless of the ‘policy relevance’ of research?
* Which geographical practices matter? Why and to whom? Does a concern for relevance include research, teaching and dissemination? Should it? Are there other practices which constitute ‘Geography’ beyond this triad?
* Is it helpful to emphasise the relevance of Geography as a discipline when engaging with policy makers, practitioners and others interested in what we have to say? Are interdisciplinary approaches more useful in describing and explaining complex social issues and processes? Does the potential relevance of Geography lie in its role as an ‘inter-disciplinary pivot’ (Fulong 2002)?
* Given the complex relationship between research evidence and policy formation, how do we ensure that the research we do is most able to affect change? In what ways is it important that the research we do is politically as well as policy relevant?
Session format:
We are keen to encourage audience participation in the themes of this session and to use it as a springboard from which to increase the relevance of Geography. Therefore the session will consist of three x 20 minute papers with ample time for questions and discussion. If a sufficient number of proposed papers are submitted then it may be necessary for two 1 hr 40 minute sessions to be set aside for this topic.
The papers will be themed and contributors will be asked to engage directly with the content of other papers in the session where appropriate. The session(s) will be chaired by the session organisers.
Abstracts (max. 200 words) should be sent to h.crawley@swansea.ac.uk
If you would like to discuss the aims, objectives and format of the session before submitting your abstract please contact Heaven Crawley on
01792 602409 or email h.crawley@swansea.ac.uk
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Dr Duncan Fuller
Enterprise Fellow
Division of Geography
Ellison Building D Block
Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST
Direct Tel - 0191 2273753
Fax - 0191 2273519
Divisional Office - 0191 2273428
Mywalks - www.northumbria.ac.uk/mywalks
PEANuT (Participatory Evaluation and Appraisal in Newcastle upon Tyne) - http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/peanut
Mapping Tranquillity - http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/tranquillity
Exploring solutions to 'graffiti' in Newcastle upon Tyne - http://northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sas/sas_research/pa/consultres/graffiti/
'Local to me': Advancing Financial Inclusion in Newcastle upon Tyne - http://northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sas/sas_research/pa/consultres/local/?view=Standard
Participatory Geographies Working Group of the RGS/IBG (PyGyWG)- http://www.pygywg.org
Geo-publishing.org - http://www.may.ie/nirsa/geo-pub/geo-pub.html
Radical Theory/Critical Praxis: Making a Difference Beyond the Academy?
http://www.praxis-epress.org/availablebooks/radicaltheorycriticalpraxis.html
The Academics Guide to Publishing - http://www.sagepub.co.uk/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book226599&currTree=Subjects&level1=P00
InVisibilities: The politics, practice and experience of surveillance in everyday life
InVisibilities
The politics, practice and experience of surveillance in everyday life
A two-day international conference hosted by
The Centre For Criminological Research, University of Sheffield, UK
in association with
Surveillance & Society
www.surveillance-and-society.org
&
The Surveillance Studies Network
www.surveillance-studies.net
Wednesday 2nd April - Thursday 3rd April 2008
While many of the world's nations are becoming surveillance societies, the nature of life with surveillance in those societies is far from homogeneous, and is not widely researched or theorised. This conference focuses on the lived realities of surveillance and is keen to encourage empirical studies which document its everyday experience.
By its very nature surveillance makes populations visible, and differentiates between their members; surveillance itself features varied techniques, intensities and foci. Whether as workers, consumers, children, patients, criminals, web surfers or travellers we are made visible in different ways, through different technologies and administrative regimes. Visibility is not always total, unproductive or oppressive - visibility is necessarily partial. For some it is actively embraced: lives are lived in visibility.
Nevertheless, widespread ambivalence towards surveillance has been noted in academic, policy and media circles. As surveillance confers benefits and incurs costs on individuals, personal information economies of surveillance emerge. In building personal strategies which involve surveillance practices, invisibilities are negotiated to mediate, limit and exploit exposure to surveillance. How individuals, groups, organizations and societies negotiate, experience, resist, comply with, and enjoy surveillance are critical empirical questions, which appeal to surveillance scholars from a wide range of social science disciplines.
Keynote Speakers:
Zygmunt Bauman, David Lyon, John McGrath
Key themes include:
* Experiencing Surveillance and Visibility
* Participatory and Voluntary Surveillance
* Theorising (in)visibility
* Histories of Surveillance and Visibility
* Surveillance of the Other - Visibility and Difference
* Representations of Surveillance in Film/Art/Literature/Media
* State Surveillance and Identification
* Surveillance and consumer visibility
* The transparent body
* Researching (in)visibility
* Spatial visibilities
* Surveillance futures
The conference is also truly international with provisional offers of over 70 papers from fourteen countries including speakers from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden, UK and the USA. Speakers include:
Krisel Backman Gotenburg Univ., Sweden
Catrina Frois Libson Univ., Portugal
Kevin Haggerty Alberta Univ., Canada
Hille Koskela Helsinki Univ., Finland
Deirdre Mulligan UC Berkeley, USA
Mike Nellis Strathclyde Univ., UK
Minas Samatas Crete Univ., Greece
Chris Williams Open University, UK
Conference Accommodation
Please find below information about booking your accommodation for the Invisibilities Conference in Sheffield. Please note booking accommodation is the responsibility of the delegate, and we would advise that you do this as soon as possible.
You can either:
1) Use the Sheffield Tourism booking form, which can be found at:
https://www.conferencebookings.co.uk/delegate/YSTINVISIBILITIES08
2) Or you may prefer to book your hotel independently by contacting hotels directly. A list of hotels can be found here:
http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/out--about/tourist-information/staying-in-sheffield
3) There is also University accommodation available at a cost of £40.00 for en-suite and £30.00 for shared facilities. Please note that the en-suite facilities are limited and cannot be guaranteed and will be allocated on a first come first served basis. If you wish to take up the University accommodation option, it is imperative that you e-mail Lisa Burns at L.K.Burns@shef.ac.uk as a matter of urgency as numbers are limited.
Conference Organisation
The list of speakers will be available on the conference web page from 4th February
www.sheffield.ac.uk/ccr
The Conference Fee is £200 per person, which includes refreshments and lunch and an optional two years' membership of Surveillance Studies Network. The membership fee will be used to promote the charitable activities of the Surveillance Studies Network, support the continued publication of the Journal of Surveillance and Society and give other benefits to members
The fee will include refreshments and lunch, but not overnight accommodation or evening meals. There will be a conference dinner on April 2nd at an additional charge of £50.
How to Book
If you would like a booking form please email Lisa Burns at L.K.Burns@shef.ac.uk
You can also download the conference forms from: www.sheffield.ac.uk/ccr
Returning them by email to:
L.K.Burns@shef.ac.uk as soon as possible and no later than March 6th 2008
Or by post to:
Lisa Burns
Research Support Officer
Centre for Criminological Research
Sheffield University, School of Law
Bartolome House, University Of Sheffield
Sheffield S3 7ND
We look forward to seeing you at the conference
Professor Clive Norris
On behalf of the Organising Committee
The politics, practice and experience of surveillance in everyday life
A two-day international conference hosted by
The Centre For Criminological Research, University of Sheffield, UK
in association with
Surveillance & Society
www.surveillance-and-society.org
&
The Surveillance Studies Network
www.surveillance-studies.net
Wednesday 2nd April - Thursday 3rd April 2008
While many of the world's nations are becoming surveillance societies, the nature of life with surveillance in those societies is far from homogeneous, and is not widely researched or theorised. This conference focuses on the lived realities of surveillance and is keen to encourage empirical studies which document its everyday experience.
By its very nature surveillance makes populations visible, and differentiates between their members; surveillance itself features varied techniques, intensities and foci. Whether as workers, consumers, children, patients, criminals, web surfers or travellers we are made visible in different ways, through different technologies and administrative regimes. Visibility is not always total, unproductive or oppressive - visibility is necessarily partial. For some it is actively embraced: lives are lived in visibility.
Nevertheless, widespread ambivalence towards surveillance has been noted in academic, policy and media circles. As surveillance confers benefits and incurs costs on individuals, personal information economies of surveillance emerge. In building personal strategies which involve surveillance practices, invisibilities are negotiated to mediate, limit and exploit exposure to surveillance. How individuals, groups, organizations and societies negotiate, experience, resist, comply with, and enjoy surveillance are critical empirical questions, which appeal to surveillance scholars from a wide range of social science disciplines.
Keynote Speakers:
Zygmunt Bauman, David Lyon, John McGrath
Key themes include:
* Experiencing Surveillance and Visibility
* Participatory and Voluntary Surveillance
* Theorising (in)visibility
* Histories of Surveillance and Visibility
* Surveillance of the Other - Visibility and Difference
* Representations of Surveillance in Film/Art/Literature/Media
* State Surveillance and Identification
* Surveillance and consumer visibility
* The transparent body
* Researching (in)visibility
* Spatial visibilities
* Surveillance futures
The conference is also truly international with provisional offers of over 70 papers from fourteen countries including speakers from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden, UK and the USA. Speakers include:
Krisel Backman Gotenburg Univ., Sweden
Catrina Frois Libson Univ., Portugal
Kevin Haggerty Alberta Univ., Canada
Hille Koskela Helsinki Univ., Finland
Deirdre Mulligan UC Berkeley, USA
Mike Nellis Strathclyde Univ., UK
Minas Samatas Crete Univ., Greece
Chris Williams Open University, UK
Conference Accommodation
Please find below information about booking your accommodation for the Invisibilities Conference in Sheffield. Please note booking accommodation is the responsibility of the delegate, and we would advise that you do this as soon as possible.
You can either:
1) Use the Sheffield Tourism booking form, which can be found at:
https://www.conferencebookings.co.uk/delegate/YSTINVISIBILITIES08
2) Or you may prefer to book your hotel independently by contacting hotels directly. A list of hotels can be found here:
http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/out--about/tourist-information/staying-in-sheffield
3) There is also University accommodation available at a cost of £40.00 for en-suite and £30.00 for shared facilities. Please note that the en-suite facilities are limited and cannot be guaranteed and will be allocated on a first come first served basis. If you wish to take up the University accommodation option, it is imperative that you e-mail Lisa Burns at L.K.Burns@shef.ac.uk
Conference Organisation
The list of speakers will be available on the conference web page from 4th February
www.sheffield.ac.uk/ccr
The Conference Fee is £200 per person, which includes refreshments and lunch and an optional two years' membership of Surveillance Studies Network. The membership fee will be used to promote the charitable activities of the Surveillance Studies Network, support the continued publication of the Journal of Surveillance and Society and give other benefits to members
The fee will include refreshments and lunch, but not overnight accommodation or evening meals. There will be a conference dinner on April 2nd at an additional charge of £50.
How to Book
If you would like a booking form please email Lisa Burns at L.K.Burns@shef.ac.uk
You can also download the conference forms from: www.sheffield.ac.uk/ccr
Returning them by email to:
L.K.Burns@shef.ac.uk as soon as possible and no later than March 6th 2008
Or by post to:
Lisa Burns
Research Support Officer
Centre for Criminological Research
Sheffield University, School of Law
Bartolome House, University Of Sheffield
Sheffield S3 7ND
We look forward to seeing you at the conference
Professor Clive Norris
On behalf of the Organising Committee
Spaces of architecture/architects of space
Apologies for cross-posting
Second Call for Papers - RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2008
Spaces of architecture/architects of space
Session organisers: James Faulconbridge (Lancaster University) and Rob
Imrie (Kings College London)
The contemporary work of architects and allied design and property
development industries and their impacts on cities and urban landscapes
has increasingly interested Geographers. Economic geographers have
become fascinated by the firms involved in the production of
architecture whilst urban, social and cultural geographers continue to
be intrigued by the material affects of architectural forms and the
spaces they create. Yet studies often tend to focus upon the outcomes of
the design process - the buildings and spaces that result from the work
of 'space designers'. This session seeks to take one step back and
examine the agents of production - the architects, designers, and allied
professionals - and the influences upon their work. So as to better
unpick the ways architectural spaces emerge, the session will explore
the influences on space designers that affect how they conceptualise and
understand the process of producing buildings and other spaces. In doing
this the session aims to bring the work of architects but also other
types of space designer (e.g. interior designers, planners, structural
engineers, etc) into focus so as to help reveal the way individual and
community experiences of buildings, the city and other spaces are
influenced by the work of these professional groups. Possible topics for
papers might include (but are not limited to):
* The work of architects within small or large firms and the
social, cultural, economic and political regulation of designs;
* City planners and the influences on their decision-making
process;
* Interior designers and their understandings of space;
* Examination of the way the designer's conceptualisation of
space and the public appropriation of space coincide and differ;
* Explorations of how the discourses associated with symbolic
and iconic architecture, urban regeneration and entrepreneurialism
influence space designers;
* The role of education in socialising and conditioning the work
of space designers.
Expressions of interest should be sent to James Faulconbridge
(j.faulconbridge@lancaster.ac.uk) by February 11th 2008. Please include
an abstract on the pro-forma available from the RGS website
(http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+
Conference/Submit+an+abstract.htm
Second Call for Papers - RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2008
Spaces of architecture/architects of space
Session organisers: James Faulconbridge (Lancaster University) and Rob
Imrie (Kings College London)
The contemporary work of architects and allied design and property
development industries and their impacts on cities and urban landscapes
has increasingly interested Geographers. Economic geographers have
become fascinated by the firms involved in the production of
architecture whilst urban, social and cultural geographers continue to
be intrigued by the material affects of architectural forms and the
spaces they create. Yet studies often tend to focus upon the outcomes of
the design process - the buildings and spaces that result from the work
of 'space designers'. This session seeks to take one step back and
examine the agents of production - the architects, designers, and allied
professionals - and the influences upon their work. So as to better
unpick the ways architectural spaces emerge, the session will explore
the influences on space designers that affect how they conceptualise and
understand the process of producing buildings and other spaces. In doing
this the session aims to bring the work of architects but also other
types of space designer (e.g. interior designers, planners, structural
engineers, etc) into focus so as to help reveal the way individual and
community experiences of buildings, the city and other spaces are
influenced by the work of these professional groups. Possible topics for
papers might include (but are not limited to):
* The work of architects within small or large firms and the
social, cultural, economic and political regulation of designs;
* City planners and the influences on their decision-making
process;
* Interior designers and their understandings of space;
* Examination of the way the designer's conceptualisation of
space and the public appropriation of space coincide and differ;
* Explorations of how the discourses associated with symbolic
and iconic architecture, urban regeneration and entrepreneurialism
influence space designers;
* The role of education in socialising and conditioning the work
of space designers.
Expressions of interest should be sent to James Faulconbridge
(j.faulconbridge@lancaster.ac.uk) by February 11th 2008. Please include
an abstract on the pro-forma available from the RGS website
(http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+
Conference/Submit+an+abstract.htm
Tourism and Geography: CFP
Apologies for multiple posting
Second call for abstracts:
Geographies that Matter
London, 27th - 29th August 2008
Sponsored by the research group: Geography of Leisure and Tourism
Call for Abstracts
deadline 1st February 2008
TOURISM & GEOGRAPHYING MATTER(S)
In accordance with the conference theme, and by alluding to Massey and Allen's groundbreaking (1984) Geography Matters, one could claim both that "tourism matters to geography" and that "geography matters for tourism". But what matters, in what ways and for what reasons?
This session aims to explore geographying matter(s) itself in the realm of tourism, in particular the geographying role of material culture like art objects, artefacts, handicrafts, the built environment, technology, etc. How has this geographying agency of matter(s) been conceptualised in tourism studies? How does it, for example, appear in place promotion and popular representation at, for and of tourism destinations? Hence one focus is on how this particular geographication hinges on certain images. How have these emerged and changed and how are they reflected through the material and artistic matter(s) manifesting them?
But geographical representation is only one ingredient in geographying matter(s). Equally important, in the de- and reterritorialising of the earth which tour-ism is all about, is the geographying agency of matter itself. How does geographying matter(s) enable or prohibit new developments in the tourist industry and create substance for various innovations and destination transformation at the behest of the tourists and those catering for them? Here we are not so much hinting at performative contradictions in consumptive socio-spatial relations, but towards a re-materialised geography with the earth as primary plane of reference. On it tour-ism is mattering through material relations and physical phenomena in a myriad of geographying ways.
Abstracts should be submitted to Edward or Martin
- Deadline for submission is 1st February 2008 -
Session organisers: Edward H. Huijbens
Director of the Icelandic Tourism Research Centre
edward@unak.is
Martin Gren
Reader/Researcher at the Icelandic Tourism Research Centre
martin@holar.is
Second call for abstracts:
Geographies that Matter
London, 27th - 29th August 2008
Sponsored by the research group: Geography of Leisure and Tourism
Call for Abstracts
deadline 1st February 2008
TOURISM & GEOGRAPHYING MATTER(S)
In accordance with the conference theme, and by alluding to Massey and Allen's groundbreaking (1984) Geography Matters, one could claim both that "tourism matters to geography" and that "geography matters for tourism". But what matters, in what ways and for what reasons?
This session aims to explore geographying matter(s) itself in the realm of tourism, in particular the geographying role of material culture like art objects, artefacts, handicrafts, the built environment, technology, etc. How has this geographying agency of matter(s) been conceptualised in tourism studies? How does it, for example, appear in place promotion and popular representation at, for and of tourism destinations? Hence one focus is on how this particular geographication hinges on certain images. How have these emerged and changed and how are they reflected through the material and artistic matter(s) manifesting them?
But geographical representation is only one ingredient in geographying matter(s). Equally important, in the de- and reterritorialising of the earth which tour-ism is all about, is the geographying agency of matter itself. How does geographying matter(s) enable or prohibit new developments in the tourist industry and create substance for various innovations and destination transformation at the behest of the tourists and those catering for them? Here we are not so much hinting at performative contradictions in consumptive socio-spatial relations, but towards a re-materialised geography with the earth as primary plane of reference. On it tour-ism is mattering through material relations and physical phenomena in a myriad of geographying ways.
Abstracts should be submitted to Edward or Martin
- Deadline for submission is 1st February 2008 -
Session organisers: Edward H. Huijbens
Director of the Icelandic Tourism Research Centre
edward@unak.is
Martin Gren
Reader/Researcher at the Icelandic Tourism Research Centre
martin@holar.is
Monday 28 January 2008
ESRC CASE AWARD FOR PHD STUDY: A CPLAN Collaboration with the Agricultural and Advisory Service Wales
ESRC CASE AWARD FOR PHD STUDY
A CPLAN Collaboration with the Agricultural and Advisory Service Wales (ADAS Cymru Wales).
Grant: approx £1,000 above the normal ESRC studentship level per annum for 3 years - 2008-2011
Research Project:
Bridging the Gaps: New Agri-Food Chains and Rural Development.
Supervisors: Professor Terry Marsden and Dr Gareth Enticott, School of City and Regional Planning
In collaboration with Mr David Roderick & Mr David Frost (ADAS Cymru Wales).
The scholarship and the research project
This doctoral studentship is a collaboration between the ESRC, the principal funder, CPLAN, as the academic school and ADAS Cymru Wales, a leading supplier of expertise and policy advice on rural businesses, agri-food and related environmental issues. The project will provide a real and much needed opportunity for the scholar to gain first-hand and direct experience of working in a cutting edge policy and practice context associated with the scientific and policy need to re-build effective agri-food supply chains for the farm to new procurement markets. The research will directly assist both ADAS and a range of associated bodies to improve their systems of support for agri-food development and rural development policy. With the new Rural Development Plan (2007-13), and its different axes, the research will provide timely evidence which will be used in the implementation of the plan. The supervisory team are directly involved in these developments and will support knowledge transfer in actions relevant to both private and public sector bodies.
Building on and linked to a series of research projects conducted by Marsden and Morgan (see Morgan et al 2006) in CPLAN, and by ADAS Cymru Wales on local food chains and food procurement, the CASE studentship will:
1. provide a state of the art theoretical contribution to the understanding of the development of local food chains, looking at obstacles and barriers experienced in their evolution;
2. examine the progress so far made through the multi-level food governance system at European, UK and Wales levels;
3. examine how successful local producer and consumer networks could be scaled up;
4. Assess, through in depth empirical research in counties such as Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire the impacts of such agri-food initiatives on broader aspects of rural development;
5. Examine the role and gaps in the provision of policy and dissemination of information in helping to improve the rural economy benefits of local food chain developments.
Collaborative Arrangements
The researcher will spend a total of two months with ADAS in the first year of the project, and ADAS will provide a bespoken induction programme introducing the researcher to existing ongoing projects and their related work programmes. This will be followed by 1 month per annum during years 2 and 3. Working with ADAS Cymru's senior research consultant, the researcher will also benefit from front line access and training with partners and a wide range of respondents involved in primary production and food processing. ADAS and CPLAN are looking for a researcher with high levels of motivation who can (i) work from an academic perspective and significantly develop findings of existing projects; (ii) to undertake cutting- edge, original research which can help to inform the future direction of policy in agri-food and rural development; (iii) to draft reports and chapters at each phase of the project, and to be able to present the interim results of such work both to policy for a and international workshops and conferences.
Career Progression and Opportunities
The researcher will join a vibrant group of researchers who are all members of CPLAN's Centre for the Rural Environment and Society (CRES), and as such will have 5* (RAE) rated research opportunities, facilities and support. The collaboration with ADAS will provide professional as well as purely academic opportunities to develop policy and practice relevant experience. For instance the researcher will develop key research relationships with key policy actors in the field. The researcher will be given encouragement and support to disseminate widely the results of the research.
Qualifications
Candidates should have a good first degree in planning, geography, agricultural economics or related subjects and would preferably have an ESRC recognised master's level qualification in one of these fields or equivalent postgraduate experience and research training.
Applications
A CV and supporting letter of interest plus the names of two referees, should be sent no later than Friday 22 February 2008 to:
Ruth Leo, Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University
Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3WA.
Initial enquiries to Professor Terry Marsden MarsdenTK@cf.ac.uk
Funding & eligibility enquiries to Ruth Leo tel 029 2087 4462 Leor@cf.ac.uk
For information on the Collaborating body: ADAS Cymru Wales visit www.adas.co.uk
A CPLAN Collaboration with the Agricultural and Advisory Service Wales (ADAS Cymru Wales).
Grant: approx £1,000 above the normal ESRC studentship level per annum for 3 years - 2008-2011
Research Project:
Bridging the Gaps: New Agri-Food Chains and Rural Development.
Supervisors: Professor Terry Marsden and Dr Gareth Enticott, School of City and Regional Planning
In collaboration with Mr David Roderick & Mr David Frost (ADAS Cymru Wales).
The scholarship and the research project
This doctoral studentship is a collaboration between the ESRC, the principal funder, CPLAN, as the academic school and ADAS Cymru Wales, a leading supplier of expertise and policy advice on rural businesses, agri-food and related environmental issues. The project will provide a real and much needed opportunity for the scholar to gain first-hand and direct experience of working in a cutting edge policy and practice context associated with the scientific and policy need to re-build effective agri-food supply chains for the farm to new procurement markets. The research will directly assist both ADAS and a range of associated bodies to improve their systems of support for agri-food development and rural development policy. With the new Rural Development Plan (2007-13), and its different axes, the research will provide timely evidence which will be used in the implementation of the plan. The supervisory team are directly involved in these developments and will support knowledge transfer in actions relevant to both private and public sector bodies.
Building on and linked to a series of research projects conducted by Marsden and Morgan (see Morgan et al 2006) in CPLAN, and by ADAS Cymru Wales on local food chains and food procurement, the CASE studentship will:
1. provide a state of the art theoretical contribution to the understanding of the development of local food chains, looking at obstacles and barriers experienced in their evolution;
2. examine the progress so far made through the multi-level food governance system at European, UK and Wales levels;
3. examine how successful local producer and consumer networks could be scaled up;
4. Assess, through in depth empirical research in counties such as Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire the impacts of such agri-food initiatives on broader aspects of rural development;
5. Examine the role and gaps in the provision of policy and dissemination of information in helping to improve the rural economy benefits of local food chain developments.
Collaborative Arrangements
The researcher will spend a total of two months with ADAS in the first year of the project, and ADAS will provide a bespoken induction programme introducing the researcher to existing ongoing projects and their related work programmes. This will be followed by 1 month per annum during years 2 and 3. Working with ADAS Cymru's senior research consultant, the researcher will also benefit from front line access and training with partners and a wide range of respondents involved in primary production and food processing. ADAS and CPLAN are looking for a researcher with high levels of motivation who can (i) work from an academic perspective and significantly develop findings of existing projects; (ii) to undertake cutting- edge, original research which can help to inform the future direction of policy in agri-food and rural development; (iii) to draft reports and chapters at each phase of the project, and to be able to present the interim results of such work both to policy for a and international workshops and conferences.
Career Progression and Opportunities
The researcher will join a vibrant group of researchers who are all members of CPLAN's Centre for the Rural Environment and Society (CRES), and as such will have 5* (RAE) rated research opportunities, facilities and support. The collaboration with ADAS will provide professional as well as purely academic opportunities to develop policy and practice relevant experience. For instance the researcher will develop key research relationships with key policy actors in the field. The researcher will be given encouragement and support to disseminate widely the results of the research.
Qualifications
Candidates should have a good first degree in planning, geography, agricultural economics or related subjects and would preferably have an ESRC recognised master's level qualification in one of these fields or equivalent postgraduate experience and research training.
Applications
A CV and supporting letter of interest plus the names of two referees, should be sent no later than Friday 22 February 2008 to:
Ruth Leo, Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University
Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3WA.
Initial enquiries to Professor Terry Marsden MarsdenTK@cf.ac.uk
Funding & eligibility enquiries to Ruth Leo tel 029 2087 4462 Leor@cf.ac.uk
For information on the Collaborating body: ADAS Cymru Wales visit www.adas.co.uk
Planum Newsletter - Special News - January 2008
Planum Newsletter - Special News - January 2008
NEWS by PLANUM
Planum is the online magazine and international network dedicated to
territorial planning, urban development and architecture.
The special newsletter is a selection of the great amount of news received
by Planum and published at http://www.planum.net/news/index.php.
The list attests that planning related events increase all around the world,
with an enlargement of the topics and of the involvement through the call
for papers.
1. Deadline reminder
2. Conferences, Workshops and Exhibitions
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1. DEADLINE REMINDER
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Real Corp 008: Mobility Nodes As Innovation Hubs
13th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in
the Information Society
3rd International Vienna Real Estate Conference GeoMultimedia008
May 19 - 21, 2008
Vienna International Airport, Austria
Submission of abstracts until January 31st 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=949
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Doing Planning Research
AESOP PHD WORKSHOP 2008
15th - 18th June 2008
Norway
Abstracts must be uploaded by February 1st 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=979
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Council for European Urbanism (CEU)
The Third International C.E.U. Congress
14 - 16 September 2008
Oslo, Norway
Abstracts Due February 1, 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=954
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Building - Designing - Thinking - International Alvar Aalto Meeting in
Finland
3rd International Alvar Aalto Meeting on Modern Architecture
August 30 - 31, 2008
Jyväskylä, Finland
Submission of abstracts until 4 February 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=987
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EDRA/Places Awards 2008
in cooperation with Metropolis
Call for Entries – Deadline: February 7, 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=996
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Bridging the divide: celebrating the city
Call for papers
ACSP — AESOP
Fourth Joint Congress
July 6 – 11, 2008
Chicago, Illinois (USA)
Deadline: February 8, 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=894
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Move Together
Competition for the Design of a Logo
Vienna
Deadline for submission: 18 February 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=999
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Eura 2008 Conference
Call for papers
9th - 11th October 2008
Milan, Italy
Deadline for abstracts submission: 29th February 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=998
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Dissertation Fellowship Program
Lincoln Institute
Deadline: March 3, 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=997
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European Prize for Urban Public Space
Biennial competition
The registration period closes on 15 March 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1005
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New Urban Research Fellowship - Baltimore
Call For Scholars
Seeking qualified candidates for Fall 2008 – Spring 2009 fellowships
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Applications deadline for September 2008: April 1, 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=956
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2. CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS and EXHIBITIONS
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Territorial Planning : Imaging, Anticipating And Organising Space
4th International symposium on territorial planning
7 - 8 February 2008
Grenoble
France
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1006
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Passenger Terminal Expo 2008
“…best in the business!”
15 - 17 April 2008
Amsterdam RAI The Netherlands
Netherlands
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=984
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Il nuovo piano
XXVI Congresso INU
17-19 aprile 2008
Ancona
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1012
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Eco-Architecture 2008
Second International Conference on Harmonisation Between Architecture and
Nature
23 - 25 June 2008
Algarve, Portugal
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1008
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Regenerating Urban Core
Urban Planning and Design Summer School 2008
11 - 23 August 2008
in Helsinky, Turku and Jyvaskyla
Finland
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1004
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Environment, Society, and Culture of Ecuador
South America Adventure
July 22 – Aug 10
Summer 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=967
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Urban Transport 2008
Fourteenth International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment
in the 21st Century
1 - 3 September 2008
The New Forest,UK
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1009
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Underground Spaces 2008
First International Conference on Underground Spaces - Design, Engineering
and Environmental Aspects
8 - 10 September 2008
The New Forest,UK
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1010
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Urban Water Conference 2008
International Conference on
Water and Urban Development Paradigms
15 - 19 September 2008
Leuven, Belgium
Deadline for the application submission: 30 January 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=973
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44th ISOCARP International Congress - Dalian (China)
Urban Growth without sprawl, A way towards sustainable urbanization
19-23 Settembre 2008
Dalian, China
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1013
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The Sustainable City 2008
Fifth International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability
24 - 26 September 2008
Skiathos, Greece
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1011
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Planum - The online magazine and international network dedicated to urban
planning, territorial development and architecture
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Contact staff@planum.net if you wish:
- to publish articles, essays, reports about urban policies, master plans,
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your special event or your firm, become a Planum guest and reach more than
22.000 planners around the world!
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NEWS by PLANUM
Planum is the online magazine and international network dedicated to
territorial planning, urban development and architecture.
The special newsletter is a selection of the great amount of news received
by Planum and published at http://www.planum.net/news/index.php.
The list attests that planning related events increase all around the world,
with an enlargement of the topics and of the involvement through the call
for papers.
1. Deadline reminder
2. Conferences, Workshops and Exhibitions
------------------------------------------------------
1. DEADLINE REMINDER
------------------------------------------------------
Real Corp 008: Mobility Nodes As Innovation Hubs
13th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in
the Information Society
3rd International Vienna Real Estate Conference GeoMultimedia008
May 19 - 21, 2008
Vienna International Airport, Austria
Submission of abstracts until January 31st 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=949
------------------------------------------------------
Doing Planning Research
AESOP PHD WORKSHOP 2008
15th - 18th June 2008
Norway
Abstracts must be uploaded by February 1st 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=979
------------------------------------------------------
Council for European Urbanism (CEU)
The Third International C.E.U. Congress
14 - 16 September 2008
Oslo, Norway
Abstracts Due February 1, 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=954
------------------------------------------------------
Building - Designing - Thinking - International Alvar Aalto Meeting in
Finland
3rd International Alvar Aalto Meeting on Modern Architecture
August 30 - 31, 2008
Jyväskylä, Finland
Submission of abstracts until 4 February 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=987
------------------------------------------------------
EDRA/Places Awards 2008
in cooperation with Metropolis
Call for Entries – Deadline: February 7, 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=996
------------------------------------------------------
Bridging the divide: celebrating the city
Call for papers
ACSP — AESOP
Fourth Joint Congress
July 6 – 11, 2008
Chicago, Illinois (USA)
Deadline: February 8, 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=894
------------------------------------------------------
Move Together
Competition for the Design of a Logo
Vienna
Deadline for submission: 18 February 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=999
------------------------------------------------------
Eura 2008 Conference
Call for papers
9th - 11th October 2008
Milan, Italy
Deadline for abstracts submission: 29th February 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=998
------------------------------------------------------
Dissertation Fellowship Program
Lincoln Institute
Deadline: March 3, 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=997
------------------------------------------------------
European Prize for Urban Public Space
Biennial competition
The registration period closes on 15 March 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1005
------------------------------------------------------
New Urban Research Fellowship - Baltimore
Call For Scholars
Seeking qualified candidates for Fall 2008 – Spring 2009 fellowships
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Applications deadline for September 2008: April 1, 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=956
------------------------------------------------------
2. CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS and EXHIBITIONS
------------------------------------------------------
Territorial Planning : Imaging, Anticipating And Organising Space
4th International symposium on territorial planning
7 - 8 February 2008
Grenoble
France
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1006
------------------------------------------------------
Passenger Terminal Expo 2008
“…best in the business!”
15 - 17 April 2008
Amsterdam RAI The Netherlands
Netherlands
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=984
------------------------------------------------------
Il nuovo piano
XXVI Congresso INU
17-19 aprile 2008
Ancona
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1012
------------------------------------------------------
Eco-Architecture 2008
Second International Conference on Harmonisation Between Architecture and
Nature
23 - 25 June 2008
Algarve, Portugal
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1008
------------------------------------------------------
Regenerating Urban Core
Urban Planning and Design Summer School 2008
11 - 23 August 2008
in Helsinky, Turku and Jyvaskyla
Finland
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1004
------------------------------------------------------
Environment, Society, and Culture of Ecuador
South America Adventure
July 22 – Aug 10
Summer 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=967
------------------------------------------------------
Urban Transport 2008
Fourteenth International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment
in the 21st Century
1 - 3 September 2008
The New Forest,UK
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1009
------------------------------------------------------
Underground Spaces 2008
First International Conference on Underground Spaces - Design, Engineering
and Environmental Aspects
8 - 10 September 2008
The New Forest,UK
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1010
------------------------------------------------------
Urban Water Conference 2008
International Conference on
Water and Urban Development Paradigms
15 - 19 September 2008
Leuven, Belgium
Deadline for the application submission: 30 January 2008
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=973
------------------------------------------------------
44th ISOCARP International Congress - Dalian (China)
Urban Growth without sprawl, A way towards sustainable urbanization
19-23 Settembre 2008
Dalian, China
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1013
------------------------------------------------------
The Sustainable City 2008
Fifth International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability
24 - 26 September 2008
Skiathos, Greece
For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1011
------------------------------------------------------
Planum - The online magazine and international network dedicated to urban
planning, territorial development and architecture
http://www.planum.net/menu.php - ISSN 1723-0993
European Community project funded by Ten Telecom in the year 2000
Contact staff@planum.net if you wish:
- to publish articles, essays, reports about urban policies, master plans,
urban planning project management
- to send announcements about upcoming events, projects, workshops
- to become a Planum partner for disseminating E.U. funded project
If you are looking for a special newsletter, through which to promote
your special event or your firm, become a Planum guest and reach more than
22.000 planners around the world!
http://www.planum.net/services/services.html
New biomedical geographies of disability and chronic New biomedical geographies of disability and chronic illness
2nd CALL FOR PAPERS for a session at the RGS-IBG Annual
Conference, London, 27-29 August 2008. Please circulate widely.
Session title: New biomedical geographies of disability and chronic
New biomedical geographies of disability and chronic
Organisers: Ed Hall, University of Dundee and Isabel Dyck, Queen Mary,
London
Sponsored by: Geography of Health Research Group
In recent years, a whole new set of medical technologies have emerged
with which to diagnose, assess, treat and reshape the bodies of people
with disabilities, chronic illnesses and mental health problems. From
pre-natal diagnosis of particular disabilities, abnormalities and even
chronic illnesses, and biomedical and genetic screening and testing
for
disabilities and illnesses, to pharmaceutical treatments for mental
health conditions and surgical procedures and appliances to
‘correct’ abnormal body shapes and movements, biomedicine is
maintaining and arguably extending its dominance of the discourse of
health and disability. This is despite a decade or more of emphasis on
the social and spatial contexts and structures within which bodies and
health are constructed.
This session will seek to examine the nature and extent of biomedical
imaginings of the ill and disabled body, covering the following
questions:
- What is the role of biomedicine in (re)producing disability and
chronic illness?
- What are the implications of biomedical discourse and institutions
in the technocratic processes through disability is categorised and
legitimised and, further, how does this biomedical power mediate
access
to resources by disabled and chronically ill people?
- What techniques and practices is biomedicine using to diagnose,
treat
and shape ill and disabled bodies?
- What role does medical technology play in the lifecourses of
disabled
people and those with chronic illness?
- Is the social constructionist understanding of disability and
chronic
illness being replaced by a resurgent biomedicine?
- How are patients, illness groups and disability organisations
resisting these new developments?
Please submit a short abstract (250 words maximum) to both Ed Hall
(e.c.hall@dundee.ac.uk) and Isabel Dyck (i.dyck@qmul.ac.uk) by 8
February 2008 if you are interested in participating in the session.
Conference, London, 27-29 August 2008. Please circulate widely.
Session title: New biomedical geographies of disability and chronic
New biomedical geographies of disability and chronic
Organisers: Ed Hall, University of Dundee and Isabel Dyck, Queen Mary,
London
Sponsored by: Geography of Health Research Group
In recent years, a whole new set of medical technologies have emerged
with which to diagnose, assess, treat and reshape the bodies of people
with disabilities, chronic illnesses and mental health problems. From
pre-natal diagnosis of particular disabilities, abnormalities and even
chronic illnesses, and biomedical and genetic screening and testing
for
disabilities and illnesses, to pharmaceutical treatments for mental
health conditions and surgical procedures and appliances to
‘correct’ abnormal body shapes and movements, biomedicine is
maintaining and arguably extending its dominance of the discourse of
health and disability. This is despite a decade or more of emphasis on
the social and spatial contexts and structures within which bodies and
health are constructed.
This session will seek to examine the nature and extent of biomedical
imaginings of the ill and disabled body, covering the following
questions:
- What is the role of biomedicine in (re)producing disability and
chronic illness?
- What are the implications of biomedical discourse and institutions
in the technocratic processes through disability is categorised and
legitimised and, further, how does this biomedical power mediate
access
to resources by disabled and chronically ill people?
- What techniques and practices is biomedicine using to diagnose,
treat
and shape ill and disabled bodies?
- What role does medical technology play in the lifecourses of
disabled
people and those with chronic illness?
- Is the social constructionist understanding of disability and
chronic
illness being replaced by a resurgent biomedicine?
- How are patients, illness groups and disability organisations
resisting these new developments?
Please submit a short abstract (250 words maximum) to both Ed Hall
(e.c.hall@dundee.ac.uk) and Isabel Dyck (i.dyck@qmul.ac.uk) by 8
February 2008 if you are interested in participating in the session.
Postgraduate Research in Culture-Economy
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) 2008 Annual Conference, London,
August 27-29
Postgraduate Research in Culture-Economy
Research within economic geography has become increasingly sensitive to
the nuanced ways in which culture can impact upon economic activity across
space. Indeed, as long ago as 1996 Thrift & Olds argued that, ‘This kind
of work no longer sees the economy as simply ‘embedded’ in the social …
but instead sees the economic and social as incorrigibly intertwined,
unable to be separated off from one another.’ Subsequently, the past few
years have seen the borders of economic geography broaden to accommodate
new and exciting narratives of ‘the economic’. This session aims to
celebrate, and provide a forum to present and discuss, this new found
diversity and innovation within geography through highlighting post-
graduate research projects. The session is open to all post-graduate
researchers conducting work in this broad subject area.
We are seeking papers upon all aspects of the relationship between culture
and the economy including, but not restricted to, the following research
areas:
• Geographies of Finance and Financialisation
• Geographies of Neo-Liberalism
• The Cultural Circuit of Capital
• Commodity Culture(s)
• Affect and the Economy
• Geographies of Post-Fordism
If you are interested in contributing a paper to this session please
submit an abstract of no more than 200 words and also your contact details
to either Thomas Wainwright, lgxtw@nottingham.ac.uk, or James Corah,
lgxjsc@nottingham.ac.uk. The deadline for this is Friday the 1st of
February.
August 27-29
Postgraduate Research in Culture-Economy
Research within economic geography has become increasingly sensitive to
the nuanced ways in which culture can impact upon economic activity across
space. Indeed, as long ago as 1996 Thrift & Olds argued that, ‘This kind
of work no longer sees the economy as simply ‘embedded’ in the social …
but instead sees the economic and social as incorrigibly intertwined,
unable to be separated off from one another.’ Subsequently, the past few
years have seen the borders of economic geography broaden to accommodate
new and exciting narratives of ‘the economic’. This session aims to
celebrate, and provide a forum to present and discuss, this new found
diversity and innovation within geography through highlighting post-
graduate research projects. The session is open to all post-graduate
researchers conducting work in this broad subject area.
We are seeking papers upon all aspects of the relationship between culture
and the economy including, but not restricted to, the following research
areas:
• Geographies of Finance and Financialisation
• Geographies of Neo-Liberalism
• The Cultural Circuit of Capital
• Commodity Culture(s)
• Affect and the Economy
• Geographies of Post-Fordism
If you are interested in contributing a paper to this session please
submit an abstract of no more than 200 words and also your contact details
to either Thomas Wainwright, lgxtw@nottingham.ac.uk, or James Corah,
lgxjsc@nottingham.ac.uk. The deadline for this is Friday the 1st of
February.
RGS-IBG Postgraduate Forum Mid-Term Conference
RGS-IBG Postgraduate Forum Mid-Term Conference – Department of
Geography, University of Liverpool, Saturday, March 1st 2008
The RGS-IBG Postgraduate Forum Mid-Term Conference provides a relaxed,
supportive, yet academically relevant atmosphere for postgraduate
geographers from all aspects of the discipline to present their
research and to discuss ideas. The conference is also a social event,
and an ideal opportunity to meet up with other postgraduates.
The event encourages postgraduates at any stage in their research
career to present their work, or simply to listen to others. We
welcome papers or posters from any geography-related subject: human
geography, physical geography, and GIS. Presentations will be arranged
into themed sessions (based on submitted abstracts) that will run
throughout the day. Posters will be displayed during the lunch period
for viewing by all delegates.
In addition, two workshops will take place:
• Academic Careers Workshop: how to begin to think about and develop
an academic career while still a postgraduate. Session run by Staff at
the University of Liverpool
• An Introduction to Publishing: run by the RGS-IBG Journal and Book
Series Editors and led by Prof. Alison Blunt, Editor of Transactions,
this session will aim to help postgraduates understand how to get
their articles published.
Wine Reception Sponsored by Geography Compass, a new online journal
from Wiley Blackwell
In 2008, Liverpool will be the European Capital of Culture, and as
such offers an exciting chance to see a vibrant city undergoing
radical change, with arts and cultural events in full swing and many
regeneration projects being undertaken.
Papers & Posters
See Conference Website below for guidelines
Registration
The cost for the conference (including lunch) will be £13.
Dates
Abstracts will be accepted up to and including 6 February 2008.
Website
http://www.liv.ac.uk/geography/postgrad/conf/forum.htm
Contact
Andy Davies (a.d.davies@liv.ac.uk) or Ivo Wengraf
(ivo.wengraf@liv.ac.uk)
Geography, University of Liverpool, Saturday, March 1st 2008
The RGS-IBG Postgraduate Forum Mid-Term Conference provides a relaxed,
supportive, yet academically relevant atmosphere for postgraduate
geographers from all aspects of the discipline to present their
research and to discuss ideas. The conference is also a social event,
and an ideal opportunity to meet up with other postgraduates.
The event encourages postgraduates at any stage in their research
career to present their work, or simply to listen to others. We
welcome papers or posters from any geography-related subject: human
geography, physical geography, and GIS. Presentations will be arranged
into themed sessions (based on submitted abstracts) that will run
throughout the day. Posters will be displayed during the lunch period
for viewing by all delegates.
In addition, two workshops will take place:
• Academic Careers Workshop: how to begin to think about and develop
an academic career while still a postgraduate. Session run by Staff at
the University of Liverpool
• An Introduction to Publishing: run by the RGS-IBG Journal and Book
Series Editors and led by Prof. Alison Blunt, Editor of Transactions,
this session will aim to help postgraduates understand how to get
their articles published.
Wine Reception Sponsored by Geography Compass, a new online journal
from Wiley Blackwell
In 2008, Liverpool will be the European Capital of Culture, and as
such offers an exciting chance to see a vibrant city undergoing
radical change, with arts and cultural events in full swing and many
regeneration projects being undertaken.
Papers & Posters
See Conference Website below for guidelines
Registration
The cost for the conference (including lunch) will be £13.
Dates
Abstracts will be accepted up to and including 6 February 2008.
Website
http://www.liv.ac.uk/geography/postgrad/conf/forum.htm
Contact
Andy Davies (a.d.davies@liv.ac.uk) or Ivo Wengraf
(ivo.wengraf@liv.ac.uk)
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