CFP: GLOBAL CITIES NOW?

Global Cities Now? Current Perspectives in 'Global Urban Studies'

Urban Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG Annual Conference

Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Urban Geography Research Group (UGRG) Annual Conference, Thursday 5th - Friday 6th November 2009, Centre for Urban Theory, Swansea University, UK.

This year’s UGRG annual conference aims to provide a forum for researchers working on, and contributing to debates about, the broad theme of globalization and the city. We are seeking contributions from across the range of research on cities in globalization in order to reflect critical discussions, and bring together the wide variety of work being undertaken – from, for example, the impact of the credit crisis on financial centres, to critical questioning of the concept of ‘the global city’.

The confirmed Keynote Speakers are:

Professor Peter Taylor (Loughborough)
Professor Andrew Leyshon (Nottingham)
Professor Wendy Larner (Bristol)
Professor Ian Gordon (LSE)

Themes for contributions might include (but are in no way restricted to):

- Global urban hierarchies; global urban networks; inter-city relations; transnational urbanism- Cities and the global financial crisis

- 'Deglobalizing' cities: (1) the retreat of globalization - ‘Deglobalizing’ cities: (2) questioning the global-city concept- Global metropolitan cultures

- Globalizing cities; ‘Cities of the South’

- Provincialising the global city; ‘ordinary cities’

- Alternative forms of knowledge produced in global cities

- Global city status as a political project; entrepreneurial cities; cities in competition

- Work in global cities; migration and global cities

- Inequality and global cities

Over two days, the conference will take the form of keynote presentations, shorter papers, and include a poster session by postgraduate students. We hope to leave plenty of time for discussion, stimulated by papers that engage with globalization and cities - in research, methods or practice. Papers are welcomed from researchers (including PhDs) at any stage of their careers.

A Poster Session is specifically designed for postgraduates to present their work in a supportive environment and an award will be made for the best poster.

The cost of attending the event is: £50 waged; £25 unwaged/students.

If you would like to contribute a PAPER or POSTER, contact Richard Smith at R.G.Smith@swansea.ac.uk or Margo Huxley at M.Huxley@sheffield.ac.uk.

Deadline for 250 word Abstracts is 30th September 2009.Deadline for Registration is 9th October 2009.

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Further Information about the Conference Location
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