[Reader-list] Hegemony and Control in the East Asian City (Modified by Geert Lovink)

[D F J Wood]

From: Urban Geography Discussion and Announcement Forum
[mailto:URB-GEOG-FORUM at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Federico Caprotti
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 9:15 PM
To: URB-GEOG-FORUM at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [URB-GEOG-FORUM] FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS - hegemony and control
in the East Asian City

Call for Papers - Hegemony and Control in the East Asian City

2006 East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography (EARCAG),
Taipei, Taiwan.

June 24-30 2006.

Conference information:
http://www.geog.ntu.edu.tw/news/20060624/index.htm

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'Hegemony and Control in Public and Social Urban Space in Asia'

Two sessions on critical urban geography at EARCAG 2006

Control of public space, the city, the urban environment, and associated
visual-geographical 'imaginations' imposedby overarching political and
statal organizations, and maintained through various mechanisms of
sociopolitical control, have been the subject of fruitful recent
analysis by critical urban geographers. The dynamic spaces of the city,
and the articulation and intermeshing of power relations through the
built environment, has created particuar and engaging - albeit at times
sinister - geographies of control.

Cities in Asia have been under-researched with regards to these topics.
This session aims to redress the balance by considering power, control
and the construction of hegemony in cities in East Asia. The focus is on
those spaces where traditionally examined spaces - public space etc. -
intermingle with the more subtle and liminal spaces of 'the social'.
 From political discussion in Singapore to Falun Gong in Shanghai, from
the erosion of freedoms in Hong Kong to spaces of disaffected youth in
Tokyo, this session aims to explore the spatial and social urban
reprecussions of control and hegemony in what is arguably the most
dynamic urban region of the world today. Geographers and academics from
cognate disciplines from Asian countries, and those from elsewhere who
are doing research on similar topics, are welcome to submit proposals.

Proposals are welcome on a broad range of topics.

Please send abstracts of c.250 words to federico.caprotti at geog.ox.ac.uk

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