"The struggle to belong. Dealing with diversity in 21st century urban settings" (Amsterdam, July 7-9 2011)

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

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

The proposed abstracts besides addressing the single sessions’ topics should be inspired by the conference theme of ‘The struggle to belong. Dealing with diversity in 21st century urban settings.’

http://www.rc21.org/conferences/amsterdam2011/

Deadline: 21/12/2010



The selection process
The deadline for abstract submission is December 21st, 2010. Each abstract will be classified by the session organizers into three categories:

A – Accepted abstract to be presented at the conference;
B – Accepted abstract as a contribution to the conference (available online) (this paper might be presented in case of drop outs);
C – Refused abstract. The paper will not be presented at the conference.

Abstracts should be sent by e-mail to abstracts@rc21.org and to the session organizers (addresses listed below).

Authors of accepted abstracts should send their paper not later than May 15th 2011 to: papers@rc21.org and to the session organizers. The accepted papers will be published online on the www.rc21.org website only if submitted in time.

Session topics and organizers
#	Title	Organizer(s)	E-mail
1	Neighbourhoods and individuals: advanced methodologies	Karien Dekker	k.dekker@uu.nl
2	Social consequences of gentrification	Erik Snel	snel@fsw.eur.nl
3	Local responses to transnationalism	Margit Fauser, Gery Nijenhuis	margit.fauser@uni-bielefeld.de
4	The end of urban neoliberalism (as we knew it)?	Ugo Rossi, Stijn Oosterlynck, Sara Gonzalez, Ramon Ribera Fumaz	urossi@unica.it stijn.oosterlynck@ua.ac.be
5	Governance and diversity in cities	Marisol García Marc Pradel	marcpradel@ub.edu marisolgarcia@ub.edu
6	Marketplaces as sites of Cosmopolitanism	Ching Lin PANG, Jan Rath Sophie Watson	ChingLin.Pang@soc.kuleuven.be j.c.rath@uva.nl s.watson@open.ac.uk
7	‘Gated Communities’ from a Global Perspective	Philip Lawton	laton@tcd.ie
8	World Cities	Michael Timberlake	timber@soc.utah.edu
9	Invisible migrants in the cities of the South	Giovanna Marconi	marconi@iuav.it
10	Negotiating social mix in global cities	Gary Bridge, Tim Butler	tim.butler@kcl.ac.uk
11	Does Diversity Divide? Dealing with sexual diversity in 21st century urban settings	Mattias Duyves	m.duyves@hetnet.nl
12	Belonging, exclusion, public and quasi-public space	Peer Smets, Paul Watt	p.g.s.m.smets@vu.nl p.watt@bbk.ac.uk
13	Urban politics between contention and control	Walter Nicholls, Justus Uitermark, Hans Pruijt	w.j.nicholls@uva.nl uitermark@fsw.eur.nl pruijt@fsw.eur.nl
14	Religion and Urban Space	Martijn Oosterbaan	m.oosterbaan@uu.nl
15	Urban Disorder and Social Cohesion	Hilary Silver, Jaap Timmer	hilary_silver@brown.edu j.s.timmer@vu.nl
16	The challenge of global suburbanism	Roger Keil Ute Lehrer	rkeil@yorku.ca lehrer@yorku.ca
17	Cities as learning grounds for citizenship	Joke Vandenabeele, Maarten Loopmans, Stijn Oosterlynck and Nick Schuermans	Nick.Schuermans@ees.kuleuven.be Stijn.Oosterlynck@ua.ac.be Maarten.Loopmans@ees.kuleuven.be
18	Social Justice and the Right to the City	Judit Bodnar	bodnarj@ceu.hu
19	Scales of Citizenship	Thea Dukes, Inge van der Welle	M.J.M.Dukes@uva.nl inge.van.der.welle@regioplan.nl
20	Housing Markets, Urban Transformations	Richard Ronald, Manuel Aalbers	r.ronald@uva.nl
21	Ethnographic Interventions	Anouk de Koning	a.dekoning@uva.nl
22	Reconstructing Gender in Urban Space	Sandra Huning	sandra.huning@tu-dortmund.de
23	Political culture and contention in cities	Luca Pattaroni, Tommaso Vitale	luca.pattaroni@epfl.ch tommaso.vitale@sciences‐po.fr
24	Housing and belonging in Latin American cities	CEDLA / Christien Klaufus	C.J.Klaufus@cedla.nl
25	Changing urban geographies of growth and decline	Matthias Bernt Marco Bontje	berntm@irs-net.de M.A.Bontje@uva.nl
26	Urban neighborhoods as spaces of production and consumption	Philip Kasinitz Ewald Engelen Robert Kloosterman	pkasinitz@gc.cuny.edu e.r.engelen@uva.nl R.C.Kloosterman@uva.nl
27	Urban order, crime and citizenship	Gwen van Eijk Rivke Jaffe	gwen.vaneijk@crim.ox.ac.ukRJaffe@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
28	Living with Difference	Christiane Timmerman, Els Vanderwaeren, Nichola Wood	Christiane.Timmerman@ua.ac.beEls.Vanderwaeren@ua.ac.ben.x.wood@leeds.ac.uk
29	Slums, Ghettoes, and the Internal Periphery of the Global Urban	Delario Lindsey Francois Bonnet	lindseyd1@wpunj.edufrabonnet@gmail.com
30	Youth geographies and spatial identities	Femi Adekunle	a.adekunle@ucl.ac.uk

Abstracts should include the following information:

1. The session to which the abstract is submitted.


2. A synthesis of the issues to be addressed in the paper, the hypothesis underlying them, the empirical and/or the theoretical basis, and the structure of the paper (300-500 words).


3. The contact of the author(s): Name(s), affiliation, address (including ZIP), a phone nr. (will not be made public) and an e-mail address.

Acceptance of abstracts
Session organizers, together with the local organizers and RC21 will inform those who submitted an abstract upon its acceptance within January 25th 2011.

Conference fee
RC21 is a nonprofit Research Committee of the International Sociological Association (ISA), therefore in order to cover the conference costs it is necessary to pay a conference fee. The conference fees are as follows:

Early birds (payment within May 15th, 2011)
a) RC21 member	€80
b) Non-RC21 members	€160
c) RC21 members B&C countries	€60

Late birds (payment after May 15th, 2011)
a) RC21 member	€100
b) Non-RC21 members	€200
c) RC21 members B&C countries	€80

Payment procedures will be conveyed as soon as the abstract selection procedures will have taken place.