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Delario Lindsey
Nov 21, 2010, 2:37:01 PM11/21/10
to Slum Studies Research Group
Annual RC21 Conference 2011
The struggle to belong. Dealing with diversity in 21st century urban
settings
Amsterdam (The Netherlands), July 7-9 2011
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research – Urban Studies
University of Amsterdam – The Netherlands
29. SLUMS, GHETTOES, AND THE INTERNAL PERIPHERY OF THE GLOBAL URBAN
From the ghettoes of Detroit, to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the
banlieues of Paris and the slums of Mumbai, this session seeks to
address the contemporary and historical significance of the urban
periphery to the development of the global urban and the global system
more generally. What has been informally dubbed ‘slum studies’
explores the implications of what is expected to be a tremendous
growth in urban areas around the world over the next 30 years, most of
which will occur in the global South. Growth in metropolitan areas
will lead to growth in the slums, favelas, and shanties that form the
urban periphery. Just as important is the significant reshaping of
urban peripheral areas in the cities of the developing world as a
consequence of the global financial crisis of 2008.
With these changes in the nature and structure of the urban periphery
around the world comes the need for a greater understanding of the
cost and benefits associated with the political, economic, and social
integration of slum areas, as well as the potential developmental
consequences for the global urban if further peripheralization becomes
an integral component of growth in metropolitan areas. Slums,
favelas, and shantytown could be future flash points for political and
economic struggle in the developing world. They might serve as
incubators for novel forms of more equitable urban development.
Moreover, internal dynamics in existing ghettoes and poor
neighborhoods in western countries are of great significance for the
world economy, as the subprime crisis has shown.
This session seeks to bring together theoretical and empirical
analyses of slums, ghettoes, favelas and shantytowns. One issue that
papers might address are the various ways in which inequality becomes
spatialized in the world economy. Also, given the rather limited
nature of capital flows in the global economy, can we say that slums
and favelas inevitable? This session also welcomes papers that foster
an original theoretical and/or empirical understanding of social
differentiation and identification in the ever-changing landscapes of
slums and ghettoes.
21 December 2011
Deadline for abstract submission
Session Organizers:
Francois Bonnet, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University
of Amsterdam
Email:
bon...@uva.nl
Delario Lindsey, Department of Africana World Studies, William
Paterson University
Email: lind...@wpunj.edu
The struggle to belong. Dealing with diversity in 21st century urban
settings
Amsterdam (The Netherlands), July 7-9 2011
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research – Urban Studies
University of Amsterdam – The Netherlands
29. SLUMS, GHETTOES, AND THE INTERNAL PERIPHERY OF THE GLOBAL URBAN
From the ghettoes of Detroit, to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the
banlieues of Paris and the slums of Mumbai, this session seeks to
address the contemporary and historical significance of the urban
periphery to the development of the global urban and the global system
more generally. What has been informally dubbed ‘slum studies’
explores the implications of what is expected to be a tremendous
growth in urban areas around the world over the next 30 years, most of
which will occur in the global South. Growth in metropolitan areas
will lead to growth in the slums, favelas, and shanties that form the
urban periphery. Just as important is the significant reshaping of
urban peripheral areas in the cities of the developing world as a
consequence of the global financial crisis of 2008.
With these changes in the nature and structure of the urban periphery
around the world comes the need for a greater understanding of the
cost and benefits associated with the political, economic, and social
integration of slum areas, as well as the potential developmental
consequences for the global urban if further peripheralization becomes
an integral component of growth in metropolitan areas. Slums,
favelas, and shantytown could be future flash points for political and
economic struggle in the developing world. They might serve as
incubators for novel forms of more equitable urban development.
Moreover, internal dynamics in existing ghettoes and poor
neighborhoods in western countries are of great significance for the
world economy, as the subprime crisis has shown.
This session seeks to bring together theoretical and empirical
analyses of slums, ghettoes, favelas and shantytowns. One issue that
papers might address are the various ways in which inequality becomes
spatialized in the world economy. Also, given the rather limited
nature of capital flows in the global economy, can we say that slums
and favelas inevitable? This session also welcomes papers that foster
an original theoretical and/or empirical understanding of social
differentiation and identification in the ever-changing landscapes of
slums and ghettoes.
21 December 2011
Deadline for abstract submission
Session Organizers:
Francois Bonnet, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University
of Amsterdam
Email:
bon...@uva.nl
Delario Lindsey, Department of Africana World Studies, William
Paterson University
Email: lind...@wpunj.edu
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