RC21 CONFERENCE 2013
Resourceful cities
Berlin (Germany), 29-31 August 2013
Humboldt-University Berlin, Institute for Social Science, Dept. for Urban and Regional Sociology
33. Theory and Method in Critical Urban Studies
Organizer: Jeremy Seekings (University of Cape Town)
Session 33.1 Theory and Method in Critical Urban Studies
Christine Hentschel (Humboldt University Berlin)
Frequent-traveler-concepts: how to smuggle piracy, social infrastructure and other strangers into first-class urban theory building
Jan Sládek (Charles University in Prague)
Right to the post-communist city: Theoretical pitfalls of studying urban activism
Judit Bodnar (Central European University, Budapest)
Urban Theories North by East/West
Cécile Gintrac (Paris West University Nanterre La Défense)
Rise and fall of critical urban studies : cities as “critical knowledge production” agents
Javier Ruiz-Tagle (University of Chile)
Theories of segregation and policies for integration: travel of ideas and concrete consequences in Chicago (US) and Santiago (Chile)
RT 33.1 Theory and Method in Critical Urban Studies
Dalia Wahdan (The American University in Cairo)
False Starts and Tweaked Remedies in Comparing the “Urbans” of Egypt and India
Hillary Angelo (New York University)
Peasants and Urban Strangers: Social Categories for an Urban Planet
Owen Crankshaw (University of Cape Town)
Causal Mechanisms, Job Search and the Labor Market Spatial Mismatch: A realist criticism of a neo-positivist causal explanation
Anisa Desai (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Johannesburg: Global Context
Ana Barone (University of Sao Paulo)
A Cutout of Color: origins of the “urban question” in sociology in the works of Florestan Fernandes
Aya Nassar (a), Lene Benz (b), Nihal Ragab (c), Sarah Aseel (d) (a: Cairo University, b, d: Hafen City University Hamburg, c: Lund University)
Accessing Cairo: Performative Methodolgy, Neighborhoods and Lessons Learned from Elsewhere
Ebru Soytemel (The University of Oxford)
The Search for the Gentry: Disentangling Ambiguous Concepts and Methodologies in Gentrification Research
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