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Annual RC21 Conference 2011 The struggle to belong. Dealing with diversity in 21st century urban settings Amsterdam (The Netherlands), July 7-9 2011 Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research Urban Studies University of Amsterdam The Netherlands Session 22. Reconstructing Gender in Urban Space The increasingly diverse and transnational character of urban landscapes invites a rethinking of the relation between gender, identity and urban space. In the context of competing norms and values, challenged social orders and power relations, constructions of gender are potentially destabilised, and constantly have to be either confirmed or redefined. Transnational urban spaces may be key sites in this respect. However, renegotiations of gender relations and gender roles, traditional sex-gender binaries and heteronormative orders in transnational urban spaces inevitably engages the wider socio-spatial environments in which these spaces are located. The proposed session welcomes papers that explore the (re-)construction of gender roles and gender relations in urban settings. Those dealing with transnational spaces are particularly welcomed. Papers may address how renegotiations of gender are initiated, when, where, in what contexts and by whom. In what ways do urban socio-spatial structures, individual and collective resources or degrees of cultural otherness influence the outcomes of these contestations? Deadline for abstract submission: 21 December 2010 Session organizer: Sandra Huning, Faculty of Spatial Planning, Urban and Regional Sociology Department Email: [email protected] ******************************************** Dr. Sandra Huning TU Dortmund, Fakultät Raumplanung Fachgebiet Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie Stadt- und Geschlechterforschung August-Schmidt-Straße 10/Einfahrt 50 44227 Dortmund Tel. 0231/755-2370 FAX 0231/755-2245 http://www.raumplanung.uni-dortmund.de/soz/
