As requested, I am adding a special session at the 2015 AAG Annual Meeting entitled Spatial Inequality, in addition to the Spatial Inequality in Asia session I am organizing.
Best, Dennis Special Session at the 2015 AAG Annual Meeting: Spatial Inequality Organizer: Yehua Dennis Wei, Professor, Department of Geography and Institute of Public and International Affairs, University of Utah, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Inequality is a fundamental issue for human society, a core subject of academic inquiry, and a major concern of governments. There has been a long-lasting debate about the pattern, trajectory, and mechanisms of geographical inequality, as well as policies that address poverty and inequality. Thanks largely to the intensification of globalization and the uneven consequences of the recent global financial crisis, inequality has once again become a hotly debated topic among top world leaders. The geography of inequality has also drawn renewed scholarly interest, but the existing knowledge is fragmented and partial. This session intends to attract scholars with varied backgrounds to examine the dimensions, complexity, and dynamics of the geography of inequality from multiple perspectives. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Outcomes: income, social, health, education, digital, innovation, environmental inequalities, etc., and their interactive effects * Trajectory/Dynamics: Timing, effects of intergenerational inequality, levels of development * Scale: From global to local and everyday life, with an emphasis on the regional scale * Space/Place: Spatial association/agglomeration/clustering, core-periphery relations, uneven nature of inequality, space/place as agents etc. * Networks: Spatial relations, flows, interactions * Processes/Mechanisms: Globalization, liberalization, marketization, institutional change, decentralization, geography * Procedures/Policies: Role of institutions, policy effects and options, justice, planning * Methodology: ESDA, spatial regression, GWR, multilevel modeling, spatial Markov chain, spatial distribution dynamics, big data etc. Submission Procedure: Please submit your participation/registration fee and abstracts online through the AAG's website (www.aag.org). I would appreciate it if you would send me your PIN and title by October 31, to give me the time to finalize the sessions.
AAG15Wei-SI Session.pdf
Description: AAG15Wei-SI Session.pdf
