Following up on my earlier post that announced the call for papers for organising sessions at the forthcoming annual conference of the Association of American Geographers in Chicago in April 2015 (for the original CFP, please click here), it is with great pleasure to see the wonderful line-up of speakers, both paper presenters and panel session members, in the three sessions that will take place next week. Many thanks to all the contributors for making these sessions ever more exciting and inspiring.
AAG Annual Conference 2015
The Politics of Desire and Despair: Contextualising Rights in Urban Protests against Displacement in Asia and Beyond
Sponsorship:
Urban Geography Specialty Group
Cultural Geography Specialty Group
China Specialty Group
Organiser and Chair
Hyun Bang Shin, London School of Economics and Political Science
Wednesday, 4/22/2015, from 8:00 AM – 9:40 AM in Regency D, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level
The Tragedy of The Commons As a Cost of Rapid Urbanization in South Korea’s Late Industrialization Context.
Dong-Wan Gimm, Seoul National University, South Korea
Displacement as Marginalised Property Rights in Australia, Brazil and Chile: Toward a Conceptual Comparative Framework
Libby Porter, Monash University, Australia
Property rights and informality: street food sellers in Singapore and Helsinki compared
Anne Haila, University of Helsinki, Finland
Rightful Resistance in Relational Spacetime: A Case Study of Beijing’s Greenbelt
Yimin Zhao, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
The Fragmented Grassroots Resistance and the “Civilised” Capital Accumulation in “the City of Benevolenceâ€?
Zhao Zhang, University College Dublin, Ireland
Paper Session II
Wednesday, 4/22/2015, from 10:00 AM – 11:40 AM in Regency D, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level
What rights do resettled farmers claim in the city? Assessing demands for sustainable livelihoods, assets and urban citizenship among rural labourers involuntarily relocated to Tianjin
Jiabao Sun, King’s College London, UK
The Fragile Right to the City: Homeownership and Speculative Urbanism in Taipei
Yi-ling Chen, University of Wyoming, USA and Hung-Ying Chen, Durham University
Bangkok’s street vendors and their rights to the city
Chaitawat Boonjubun, University of Helsinki, Finland
Whose right to what city? Voices from post-Gezi movement urban forums in Ankara, Turkey
Ceren Ergenç and Özlem Çelik, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Fighting the right to human flourishing: top-down mode of planning challenged in Hong Kong
Mee-Kam Ng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Panel Discussion
Wednesday, 4/22/2015, from 1:20 PM – 3:00 PM in Regency D, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level
Hyun Bang Shin (Introducer), London School of Economics and Political Science
Anne Haila, University of Helsinki, Finland
George C.S. Lin, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Christian Schmid, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Sharad Chari, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Eric Clark, Lund University, Sweden