Symposium: (5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025))

RC21 Regional and Urban Development

Program Coordinators: Alberta ANDREOTTI (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy), Prof. Claire COLOMB (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom), Neha SAMI (Indian Institute for Human Settlements, India) and Stijn OOSTERLYNCK (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium)

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Governing Urban Community Spaces Under Pressure of Marketization and Financialization (Part I)
Session Organizers: Stijn OOSTERLYNCK and Elina VOLODCHENKO

Left behind Places, a Truly Global Process? (Part I)
Session Organizer: Maryame AMAROUCHE

Revisiting the Housing Question As a Social-Ecological Question (Part I)
Session Organizer: Margaret HADERER
Chair: Margaret HADERER

11:00-12:45

Governing Cities & Materialities: Author-Meet-Critics
Session Organizer: Talja BLOKLAND

Governing Urban Community Spaces Under Pressure of Marketization and Financialization (Part II)
Session Organizers: Stijn OOSTERLYNCK and Elina VOLODCHENKO

Left behind Places, a Truly Global Process? (Part II)
Session Organizer: Maryame AMAROUCHE

13:00-14:45

Active City-Makers: Exploring the Role of Displaced Communities (humans and non-humans) in the Growth and Development of the Arab City
Session Organizer: Momen EL-HUSSEINY
Chair: Momen EL-HUSSEINY

Local-to-Global Circulations, Space and Politics of Waste
Session Organizers: Manisha ANANTHARAMAN and Eva BOSSUYT

Tourism, Cities and Global Change (Part I) - Gentrification and Touristification
Session Organizer: Marxiano MELOTTI

15:00-16:45

Ijurr Keynote Lecture: Matthew Desmond - "the Accommodationist Welfare State: Government Spending, Poverty Reduction, and Extractive Markets"
Session Organizer: Eduardo MARQUES
Chair: Eduardo MARQUES

Pedagogies for Territorial Healing and Reparation: Learning How to Foster in Tandem Spatial, Epistemic and Reparative Justice
Session Organizers: Catalina ORTIZ and Natalia VILLAMIZAR DUARTE

Revisiting the Housing Question As a Social-Ecological Question (Part II)
Session Organizer: Margaret HADERER

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Property Rights and Land Institutions: Global and Historical Perspectives (Part I)
Session Organizers: Marcela ALONSO FERREIRA and Petra SAMAHA

Tourism, Cities and Global Change (Part II) - Social Change, Inequalities and Power Relations
Session Organizer: Thiago DUARTE PIMENTEL

11:00-12:45

Displacement, Peripheralization and Dignity in Housing Politics (Part I)
Session Organizers: Romola SANYAL and Mara FERRERI
Chair: Mara FERRERI

Elites in Cities, Elite Cities: Processes of (dis)Affiliation, (dis)Connection and Distinction
Session Organizer: Rowland ATKINSON

Property Rights and Land Institutions: Global and Historical Perspectives (Part II)
Session Organizers: Marcela ALONSO FERREIRA and Petra SAMAHA

13:00-14:45

Elites in Cities, Elite Cities: Processes of (dis)Affiliation, (dis)Connection and Distinction Part II
Session Organizers: Rowland ATKINSON and Sharda ROZENA

Making White Cities (Part I)
Session Organizers: Macarena BONHOMME and Karim MURJI

15:00-16:45

Tourism, Cities and Global Change (Part III) - Different Spatial Scales: Cities, Regions and Routes
Session Organizer: Marxiano MELOTTI
Chair: Thiago DUARTE PIMENTEL

Urban Coastal Communities: Lives, Livelihoods, and Local Knowledge in the Anthropocene
Session Organizer: Liza WEINSTEIN

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Catalysing the Public Role of the University: Reimagining Universities As Progressive Urban Actors (Part I)
Session Organizers: Neha SAMI, Barbara LIPIETZ and Hector BECERRIL

Exploring Student Housing: Connecting Higher Education to Social and Spatial Justice
Session Organizers: Silvia MUGNANO and Misa IZUHARA

11:00-12:45

Catalysing the Public Role of the University: Reimagining Universities As Progressive Urban Actors (Part II)
Session Organizers: Neha SAMI, Barbara LIPIETZ and Hector BECERRIL

Housing, Health, and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
Session Organizer: Laura GOH
Chair: Greta WERNER

13:00-14:45

Comparative Housing Systems and Segregation Patterns in Central, Eastern, Southern and Southeastern Europe
Session Organizers: Thomas MALOUTAS, Robert MUSIL and Ivan RATKAJ

Displacement, Peripheralization and Dignity in Housing Politics (Part II)
Session Organizers: Romola SANYAL and Mara FERRERI
Chair: Romola SANYAL

Feminist Interventions into the Mediterranean Cities in the Anthropocene
Session Organizers: Bahar SAKIZLIOGLU and Blanca VALDIVIA

15:00-16:45

For a Sociology of Shared Housing: Practices, Policies, Pathways
Session Organizers: Eduardo BARBERIS and Paolo BOCCAGNI

RC21 Plenary: Keynote Lecture By Sarah El-Kazaz - "Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul"
Session Organizer: Alberta ANDREOTTI
Chair: Prof. Claire COLOMB

Tourism, Cities and Global Change (Part IV) - Positive Examples and Social Representations
Session Organizer: Thiago DUARTE PIMENTEL
Chair: Marxiano MELOTTI

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Rethinking Public Policies in the Context of the Climate Crisis: Funding Strategies and Policy Production in Multi-Level Contexts (Part I)
Session Organizers: Ursula DIAS PERES and Renata BICHIR

Vilmouv, Villes En Mouvement - Cities and Mobilities
Session Organizers: Giovanni SEMI, Camille SCHMOLL and Thomas PFIRSCH

11:00-12:45

(Un)Commoning amid Disruptions and Disasters: Insights from Cities of Southwest Asia and North Africa (Part I)
Session Organizers: Mona HARB, Sarah EL-KAZAZ and rafeeF.ziadah ZIADEH

Difficult Heritage and Urban Memory (Part I)
Session Organizers: Valentinainfantebatiste INFANTE and Macarena IBARRA

13:00-14:45

Difficult Heritage and Urban Memory (Part II)
Session Organizers: Valentinainfantebatiste INFANTE and Macarena IBARRA

Making White Cities (Part II)
Session Organizers: Macarena BONHOMME and Karim MURJI

RC21 Panel Discussion. Bridging Research and Practice: The Work That 'urban Labs' Do
Session Organizer: Neha SAMI
Chair: Neha SAMI

15:00-16:45

(Un)Commoning amid Disruptions and Disasters: Insights from Cities of Southwest Asia and North Africa (Part II)
Session Organizers: Mona HARB, Sarah EL-KAZAZ and rafeeF.ziadah ZIADEH

Rethinking Public Policies in the Context of the Climate Crisis: Funding Strategies and Policy Production in Multi-Level Contexts (Part II)
Session Organizers: Ursula DIAS PERES and Renata BICHIR

19:00-20:30

RC21 Business Meeting

Friday, 11 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Geographies Beyond Inhabitation. Urban Grounds, Housing Struggles, and the Everyday Political (Part I)
Session Organizers: Michele LANCIONE and AbdouMaliq SIMONE

Urban Care Knowledges, Practices and Imaginaries in Times of Planetary Change (Part I)
Session Organizers: Janet MERKEL and Astrid SUNDSBOE

Urban Environmental Justices and Governance in African and Asian Contexts
Session Organizers: Azadeh MASHAYEKHI and Noura WAHBY

11:00-12:45

Geographies Beyond Inhabitation. Urban Grounds, Housing Struggles, and the Everyday Political (Part II)
Session Organizers: Michele LANCIONE and AbdouMaliq SIMONE

Urban Care Knowledges, Practices and Imaginaries in Times of Planetary Change (Part II)
Session Organizers: Janet MERKEL and Astrid SUNDSBOE

13:00-14:45

Migration, Housing, and Urban Accommodation (Part I)
Session Organizers: Hilary SILVER and Laura COLINI

Segregation, Seclusion and Trust in Urban Public Space (Part I)
Session Organizers: Talja BLOKLAND and Vojin SERBEDZIJA

15:00-16:45

Migration, Housing, and Urban Accommodation (Part II)
Session Organizers: Hilary SILVER and Laura COLINI

Segregation, Seclusion and Trust in Urban Public Space (Part II)
Session Organizers: Talja BLOKLAND and Vojin SERBEDZIJA