Symposium: (XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 13-19, 2014))

RC21 Regional and Urban Development

Program Coordinators: Yuri KAZEPOV (University of Urbino, Italy), Takashi MACHIMURA (Hitotsubashi University, Japan) and Asato SAITO (Yokohama National University, Japan)

Monday, July 14, 2014

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

358

Theme I.1 Beyond Dichotomization: Informality and the Challenges of Governance in Cities of the Global North and South
Session Organizers: Diane DAVIS and Julie-Anne BOUDREAU

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

359

Theme I.1 Beyond Dichotomization: Informality and the Challenges of Governance in Cities of the Global North and South. Part II
Session Organizers: Diane DAVIS and Julie-Anne BOUDREAU

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

360

Theme I.2 Tackling Inequality in Shrinking Cities: The Role of Governance and Civic Society
Session Organizers: Dieter RINK and Annegret HAASE

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

JS-17

Unequal Cities and the Political Economy of Housing. Part I
Session Organizers: Manuel B. AALBERS and Raquel ROLNIK

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

361

Theme I.3 Public/Social Rental Housing and Urban Renewal: New Inequalities and Insecurities?
Session Organizers: Paul WATT and Peer SMETS

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

JS-26

RC21RC43 Roundtable II.
Session Organizers: Manuel B. AALBERS and Raquel ROLNIK

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

362

Theme IV.3 Creative Activism in Times of Urban Renaissance and Social Exclusion - Space Sensitive Approaches to the Study of Collective Action and Belonging
Session Organizer: Eva YOUKHANA

7:30 PM-8:50 PM

363

RC21 Business Meeting

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

JS-34

Cities and the Global Environmental Change
Session Organizers: Louis GUAY and Pierre HAMEL
Chair: Louis GUAY

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

JS-38

Too Much and Too Little: Urban Landscapes of Homelessness and Gentrification
Session Organizers: Lidia K.C. MANZO and Jerome KRASE
Chair: Jerome KRASE

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

364

Theme II.1 Cities and the Global Environment
Session Organizers: Louis GUAY and Pierre HAMEL

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

365

Theme II.2 Sustainable Cities and Social Justice
Session Organizers: Michael JONAS and Andrea GLAUSER

Thursday, July 17, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

366

Theme III.1 Homelessness amid the Global Economic Crisis: Interrogating Structural Inequality in Contemporary Cities from the Ground up
Session Organizers: Keiko YAMAGUCHI and Matthew D. MARR

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

367

RC21 Paper Presentation Session I. Theme IV.1 Identity, Justice and Resistances in the Neoliberal City
Session Organizers: Gulcin Erdi LELANDAIS and Yildirim SENTURK

368

Theme V.4 The Street and the Urban Public Sphere: Diversity, Difference, Inequality
Session Organizers: Sharon ZUKIN and Xiangming CHEN

369

Theme VI.1 Actor-Network-Theory and Urban Studies
Session Organizers: Dominique BOULLIER and Bart WISSINK

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

370

Theme VI.2 Urban Studies and the Challenge of Travelling Concepts and Comparative Methods
Session Organizers: Yuri KAZEPOV, Asato SAITO and Takashi MACHIMURA

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

371

Theme VI.3 International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Lecture: The Rent Question, Anne HAILA, Helsinki University, Finland
Session Organizer: Yuri KAZEPOV

Friday, July 18, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

372

Theme I.4 Understanding Social and Physical Disorder in the Urban Metropolis
Session Organizers: Rebecca WICKES and Lynda CHESHIRE

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

373

Theme IV.2 New Urban Protest Cultures in the Era of Digital Social Networks
Session Organizer: Martina LOW

3:30 PM-5:20 PM

374

Theme II.4 Tokyo and Japanese Cities
Session Organizer: Asato SAITO

5:30 PM-7:20 PM

375

Theme V.3 Ambiguous Spaces: Moving Beyond Dichotomies of Public Space
Session Organizers: Anna STEIGEMANN, Christian HAID and Annika LEVELS

Saturday, July 19, 2014

8:30 AM-10:20 AM

376

Theme II.3 Social Changes and Urbanization in China
Session Organizers: Di ZHU, Guangjin CHEN and Chen LIXING

377

Theme III.3 Disasters, Risks and Civil Society: A Comparative View of Urban Resilience Strategies
Session Organizers: Kaoru ENDO and Hideo NAKAZAWA

10:30 AM-12:20 PM

378

Theme III.2 Migrant Communities and the Host Practices
Session Organizer: K.C. HO

379

Theme V.1 Informality and Spatial Confinement Across the Global Order: Every Day and Policy Perspectives
Session Organizers: Silvia PASQUETTI and Giovanni PICKER

12:30 PM-2:20 PM

380

Theme V.2 Navigating and Understanding Vernacular Landscapes in Global Cities: Everyday Practices, Commodification and Contestation
Session Organizer: Heide IMAI

2:30 PM-4:20 PM

381

Urban Challenges
Session Organizer: Yuri KAZEPOV