Call for Papers: AAG 2015 (April 21-25, Chicago, IL) Critical Approaches to Transportation Research (Paper Session) This session features research that utilizes critical, radical or social and environmental justice frameworks to understand urban transportation systems. As Henderson (2013) maintains, transportation studies is dominated by a "common sense" approach that
decouples transport research from its social, political and ideological dimensions. While the dominant paradigm for transport studies is neoclassical and liberal economics (Deka 2004), participants in this session critically engage transportation by pushing the boundaries of and even rejecting these paradigms. Papers in this session have roots in multiple disciplines, including sociology, geography, urban planning, anthropology and history and they employ a variety of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches to research. Papers exploring accessibility, inequality in transport service provision, infrastructures, planning, investment location and mode bias are highly desired. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: • Research concerned with
issues of power, equity, social and environmental justice • Work that utilizes a reflective orientation, questioning assumptions in existing practice • Papers that investigate transport within a larger socio-political framework • Projects that apply Marxist, feminist or other critical frameworks to transport systems • Papers deploying new approaches to infrastructures, networks and mobilities research Please email abstracts to Héctor Agredano (hagr...@gc.cuny.edu) and Lauren Ames Fischer (laf...@columbia.edu)
by November 1st. After receiving confirmation that your abstract has been included in this session, you will be notified, at which point you will be asked to provide your registrant PIN. Session Sponsors:Urban Geography Specialty group References: Deka, Devajyoti, "Social and Environmental Justice Issues in Urban Transportation" in The Geography of Urban Transportation, edited by Susan Hanson and Genevieve Giuliano, 3rd ed. New York: The Guilford Press, 2004. Henderson, Jason, Street Fight: The Politics of Mobility in San Francisco. Amherst: University of Massachussetts Press. 2013.
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Julie Cidell
University of Illinois
jci...@illinois.edu
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