[Surveillance-Studies-l] Fwd: RGS-IBG 2008 CFP: The new urbanism and the making of sustainable cities

[Nils Zurawski]

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>the making of sustainable cities
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>RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, 27-29 August 2008: Call for Papers
>
>Session: The New Urbanism and the Making of Sustainable Cities
>
>Organisers: Gesa Helms (University of Glasgow), 
>Gerry Mooney (Open University) and Mike Raco 
>(King's College London)
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>This session calls for papers that examine the 
>relationships between the group of ideas loosely 
>known as the 'new urbanism' and the planning and 
>development of sustainable cities. For new 
>urbanists, urban policy and planning should 
>actively work towards the creation of new urban 
>designs and spaces in order to facilitate new 
>modes of community interaction and formation. 
>Following a long tradition of such work, the 
>emphasis is on the ways in which urban design 
>can be used to shape the mobility and activities 
>of individuals as much as (excluded) social 
>groups for a wider 'common good'.  In recent 
>times, this mode of planning thinking has become 
>elided with broader sustainability discourses 
>with their visions of social, economically, and 
>environmentally 'balanced' urban environments.
>
>This session seeks papers that engage with 
>ongoing debates within social policy, geography, 
>and criminology that are exploring the ways in 
>which social practices and interaction are 
>controlled, governed, and regulated under this 
>new urbanism, and the power relationships and 
>agendas that underpin these changes. For 
>example, many of the debates around law and 
>order policies, punishment, and social control 
>try to capture the social visions, goals and 
>aspirations of 'bettering' or civilising urban 
>subjects through urban and social policy 
>initiatives. Research has often explicitly or 
>implicitly taken on Foucault's governmentality 
>as a theoretical frame for understanding such 
>changes. Yet, what is often absent in such 
>accounts is the use of detailed, systematic 
>empirical evidence that explores in detail the 
>ways in which policy objectives and visions are 
>actually put into practice on the ground.
>
>We, therefore, welcome papers that: explore and 
>assess the ways in which new urbanist planning 
>principles have been developed, mobilised, and 
>rolled-out in recent planning discourses and 
>practices: focus on the interconnectedness of 
>urban, criminal justice and social policies 
>around the New Urbanism; and examine the 
>attempts that have been made in cities to 
>mobilise and encourage particular forms of 
>social interaction and engagement and with what 
>impacts on the urban. Papers that explore the 
>emergence and novelty or such themes in the 
>light of grounded conceptual and empirical work 
>are particularly encouraged.
>
>
>Please send a 200 word abstract by January 21 
>2008 to one of the session organisers: Gesa 
>Helms, Department of Urban Studies, University 
>of Glasgow, (g.helms at lbss.gla.ac.uk); Gerry 
>Mooney, Faculty of Social Science, The Open 
>University (g.c.mooney at open.ac.uk); and Mike 
>Raco, Department of Geography, King's College 
>London (mike.raco at kcl.ac.uk).
>
>
>
>
>
>With apologies for crossposting and best wishes,
>Gesa
>
>
>__________________________________
>
>Dr Gesa Helms
>Department of Urban Studies University of Glasgow
>25 Bute Gardens  Glasgow G12 8RS  Scotland
>phone +44(0)141 330 4615 (direct)/330 5048 (office)
>fax +44(0)141 3304983
>email g.helms at socsci.gla.ac.uk
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