RC21 CONFERENCE 2013
Resourceful cities
Berlin (Germany), 29-31 August 2013
Humboldt-University Berlin, Institute for Social Science, Dept. for Urban and Regional Sociology
11. Contentious cities
Organizer: Walter Nicholls (a), Justus Uitermark (b) (a: University of Amsterdam, b: Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Session 11.1 Contention and Control in Cities
Justus Uitermark (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Political Innovations in Cities – Mapping evolving geographies of contention and control
Seth Schindler (Humboldt University)
Disciplining the Informal Service Sector in Delhi, India
Lynn Staeheli (a), Don Mitchell (b), Kafui Attoh (c) (a: Durham University, b, c: Syracuse University)
Whose City? Contentious and Non-Contentious Spaces in Colorado’s Front Range
Azat Z Gundogan (University of Michigan-Flint)
A Contentious City on the Outskirts of Istanbul: Contention, Resistance and Peripheral Urbanization in Gebze
Session 11.2 Urbanization and Contention
Eleonora Pasotti (University of California)
Conflict and development in aspiring global cities
Hade Turkmen (Cardiff University)
Impact of Spatial Factors in the Development of Collective Action in Urban Struggle: The Case of Istanbul
Martine Drozdz (Université de Lyon)
Mapping regeneration’s grievances: the multiple geographies of planning protests in contemporary London
Session 11.3 Contentious Spaces
Mischa Dekker, Jan Willem Duyvendak (University of Amsterdam)
Occupying City-Centres: A Material Understanding of Players and Arenas
Anna Zhelnina (National Research University - Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg)
‘Angry urbanites’: urban space and mobilization in Russian cities after parliamentary and presidential elections 2011-2012
Pushpanjali Jha (University of Delhi)
Sites and spaces of Contention and Global cities with reference to New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar as a Site of Protest
Joanna Phua (City University of New York)
We Came to our Senses: Theorizing Urban Revolts in Southeast Asia
RT 11.1
Kacper Poblocki (University of Poznan)
The right to the in-between-city? Struggles in Poland's hybrid spaces
Evin Deniz (Autonomous University of Madrid)
A struggle against displacement as a politicization process of its dwellers at the case of Dikmen Valley
Judith M. Lehner (HafenCity Universität Hamburg)
The Inner Void. Urban Brownfield Transformation and Popular Contention
Thorben Wieditz (York University, Toronto)
“Don't Let The Condos Eat My Job!” - From the production of cookies to the production of space: Toronto's Official Plan review and the struggle to retain employment land
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