intsoc RC21 call for papers

To: Members of the International Sociological Association

Call for papers

ISA Research Committee on Regional and Urban Development, RC21
Conference on  Social Inequality, Redistributive Justice and the City
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
June 15-17, 2001

The aim of the conference is to retake the theme of social
inequality and redistributive justice in cities more than
twenty-five years after Raymond Pahl's Who's City (1970) and of
David Harvey's  Social Justice and the City (1973). Other
important works followed. Since the theoretical debates of the
1970s and early 1980s sociological urban research has taken
several roads in the analysis of urban inequality. The central
theme to be discussed in this conference is how the specific
current debates are dealing with the issue of redistribute
justice. How are labour markets structuring new urban social
inequalities? Is there any role left to play for social
movements and what is their relation to urban governance? What
is the significance of urban regimes in dealing with social
inequality and defining social justice?  What are the challenges
of urban governance for the 21st Century?

Proposals for
-  presenting papers and abstracts shall be sent to  sessions
chairs listed at http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/cforp107.htm

-  poster sessions shall be sent to Leon Deben
(deben@pscw.uva.nl) and Marisol Garcia
(soledadg@riscd2.eco.ub.es)
before 1 November 2000