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Call for Papers *Symposium on New Geographies of Urban China* 2013 AAG Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, April 9-13 *Organizers: * Mei-Po Kwan (University of California, Berkeley) Yanwei Chai (Peking University) Donggen Wang (Hong Kong Baptist University) Relational understanding of space and the “new mobilities paradigm” (Sheller and Urry 2006) that emerged in the past decade or so have helped generate much new insight on many phenomena of interest to geographers. Informed by the mobilities/relational turn, we suggest that a fruitful direction for future research on urban China is one that is attentive to mobility, movement, flow, travel, and other relational transactions in space-time that shape or transform the urban fabric of China, while remaining cognizant of the particularities of China’s social, political, cultural, economic, and institutional context. As the complex interactions among individual urban actors/agents have considerable potential to bring forth drastic or unexpected emergent shifts, new conceptualizations and analytical methods capable of addressing these changes in fine spatial and temporal scales are needed. In organizing this symposium, we seek contributions that advance new conceptual and analytical perspectives about Chinese cities. We welcome papers that are attentive to how the everyday lives of individuals unfold in space-time and how this shapes and in turn is influenced by China’s urban transformations. We welcome papers that address any issues pertinent to contemporary Chinese cities. Topics may include but are not limited to: - social difference and the city - social and spatial inequalities - poverty and the quality of life - sociospatial segregation and isolation - residential mobility, migration, and local labor markets - daily mobility and activity-travel patterns - accessibility and urban travel - emergent patterns of urban transformations - urban spatial restructuring - social and environmental sustainability - health and subjective wellbeing - land and housing development - planning and governance of urban infrastructure If you are interested in participating in this symposium, please send a short abstract of no more than 250 words to Mei-Po Kwan (mpk...@gmail.com), Yanwei Chai (c...@pku.edu.cn), and Donggen Wang (dgw...@hkbu.edu.hk) by October 12, 2012. Guidelines for preparing abstracts are available at: http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/call_for_papers/abstract_guidelines Please contact the organizers if you have any questions. For more information about the 2013 AAG Annual Meeting, please visit www.aag.org/annualmeeting. Best wishes, Mei-Po -------------------------------------------- Mei-Po Kwan Department of Geography University of California, Berkeley Email: mpk...@gmail.com http://meipokwan.org --------------------------------------
