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2016 LSE-PKU Summer School Course Introduction (LPS-GY201)

07 Monday Mar 2016

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LSE-PKU Summer School

Beijing, 8-19 August 2016

 

【课程介绍】 LPS-GY201: Speculative Urbanisation in Asia

转型中的中国和其他亚洲国家城市已经成为社会科学研究的热门领域，相关研究正日益深入，并从早期的现象描述逐渐演进到对内在机理的探索。本课程立足于相关学术讨论，力图把中国和其他亚洲国家的城市变迁放置到投机性的空间生产这一脉络里进行批判性地审视。一方面，课程将深度运用相关文献，从后社会主义城市转型、城市空间生产的政治经济机制、大型赛会的尺度政治、绅士化和遗产保护中的权力关系、进入城市的权利等角度剖析当前亚洲城市日益突出的问题与挑战；另一方面，课程将在大量案例分析的基础上构造若干比较的范畴，在中国与其他亚洲国家、东亚与“西方”等维度上反思比较城市主义的研究视角，强调运用西方理论所需的语境关切，以及借助亚洲经验改造相关理论的可能路径。

假如你想弄明白……

  • 大量的鬼城和空置楼盘何以出现
  • 房地产投机如何在最近/一线城市愈演愈烈
  • 北京的南锣鼓巷和新加坡的 Little India 的变迁有何异同
  • 东亚四小龙的住房政策如何彼此迥异（植根于各自的政治经济基础）
  • 如何把中国的城市问题与东亚、亚洲和全球议题加以勾连
  • “绅士化”问题的最新理论进展
  • 作为方法的比较城市主义如何加以实践……

那么本课程将能提供足够多、足够深入的理论和案例信息，并将有气氛热烈的研讨班 (seminar; 80 min/day) 作为增进讨论的有效平台。

详情请戳：

http://www.lse.ac.uk/study/summerSchools/LSEPKUProgramme/courses/gy201.aspx

 

About the summer school:

LSE and Peking University have collaboratively run the LSE-PKU Summer School in Beijing every summer since 2004. The twelfth SE-PKU Summer School will run from 8-19 August 2016. The two-week English-language international programme offers university-level courses all with a focus on China and Asia in subjects including economics, management, international relations, geography, the media, big data and NGOs.

The LSE-PKU Summer School provides a unique opportunity to learn about China from within China, but with a truly international perspective. The programme is taught in English by outstanding faculty from LSE and PKU – two of the world’s leading institutions for teaching and research.

In 2015, the LSE-PKU Summer School was attended by 283 participants from more than 50 countries across Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas, one third of whom were graduate professionals from different industries, governments and NGOs. This enriches class discussions, social events and networking opportunities.

Each course totals 48 contact hours (usually 36 hours of lectures and 12 hours of classes), and is formally assessed to allow the award of an official transcript. Whilst neither LSE nor PKU formally award credit for the programme, many previous participants have been able to receive credit from their home institutions – we are very happy to provide any information to assist with this.

 

Course information:

The course “Speculative Urbanisation in Asia” (LPS-GY201) explores the contemporary dynamics of urbanisation in Asia, with special emphasis on cities in China and other East and Southeast Asian economies, which share the experiences of rapid urban development with strong state intervention in the context of condensed industrialisation. The course will benefit from the geographical advantage of taking place in Beijing and make use of a number of China case studies to examine the differences as well as similarities of urban development between Chinese and other Asian cities.

Applying interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, the course encourages students to develop critical knowledge and comparative understanding of how urban space is transformed in different social, economic and political settings, and what socio-spatial implications are made in a differentiated way upon local populations.

Throughout the course, we ask whether the concepts and theories born out of the (post-)industrial Western urban experiences can be applicable to the understanding of urban Asia. We also ask what are the challenges that cities in East and Southeast Asia face, given its current development trajectory.

We do this by examining a set of carefully selected themes that address (1) the integration of Asian cities with the global economy, (2) the distinctive characteristics of Asia’s urban development,(3) the place-specificities of state intervention in forming urban growth strategies, and (4) socio-political implications of urbanisation processes in the region.

 

About the Instructor:

Dr Hyun Bang Shin is an Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Studies in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Dr Shin is a specialist in urban Asia. His research includes the critical analysis of the political economic dynamics of urban (re-)development and covers Asian urbanisation, urban politics, displacement and gentrification, the right to the city, and mega-events as urban spectacles.

New publications:

(2015) (eds.) Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement. Bristol: Policy Press

(2016) Planetary Gentrification. Cambridge: Policy Press

(2016) Special issue: Locating Gentrification in the Global East. Urban Studies 53(3)

 

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CFP (RGS-IBG 2016): Narrating Displacements

05 Friday Feb 2016

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RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, 30 August – 2 September 2016

Call for Papers
Narrating Displacements – A Radical Way to Rethink Urban Theories and Politics

Organisers:

Hyun Bang Shin (Geography, London School of Economics) h.b.shin@lse.ac.uk

Mara Nogueira (Geography, London School of Economics) m.nogueira-teixeira@lse.ac.uk

Yimin Zhao (Geography, London School of Economics) y.zhao25@lse.ac.uk

 

Nowadays, we have been witnessing the rise of urban expansion, gentrification, mega-events and many other political economic events; all of them have direct impacts on the daily life of local residents through large- or small-scale displacements. Displacement is a term that has been widely used for critical urban theories in analysing contemporary urban change, especially in the Anglo-Saxon world. Yet when people use this word in the literature, relatively few attentions are paid to mechanisms through which place-based understandings of displacement are enabling/bounding the historical-geographical conjuncture of domination and resistance.

Discourses of displacement are diverse geographically; they are also narrated and deployed by different subjects from distinct perspectives in displacement processes. Expressions like “chaiqian” (demolition and relocation), “qianyi” (relocation), “qiangpo qianyi” (forced relocation) are used in China to express actions through which the state institutions and businesses operate. In South Korea, “cheolgeo” (demolition), “gangje cheolgeo” (forced demolition) or “yiju” (relocation) are more frequently utilised by those subject to displacement. Elsewhere in Latin America, for example in Brazil, “despejo” (eviction) “desalojamento forçado” (forced eviction) and “expulsão” (expulsion) are common concepts deployed by those suffering displacement threats and their allies, whereas the actors promoting displacement prefer to deploy milder terms such as “desocupação” (evacuation) or “realocação” (reallocation).

The use of these particular expressions shifts the focus towards the final act of displacement; even though in reality people would experience (the feeling of) displacement long before actual demolition, eviction or relocation. Moreover, discussions about belonging and the sense of place show how displacement may occur even in the absence of such events. In this regard, abrupt changes to space might cause people to feel “out of place” even though they remain in the same location. To narrate the experience of displacement focusing only on the final acts has serious negative implications on formulating effective strategies that allow pre-emptive earlier contestations to resist and counteract displacement pressure. Furthermore, how displacement is actually narrated in a given local context is not trivial, for conceptualising displacement is itself political.

This session invites papers to reflect on narratives and discourses mobilised around displacement in a diverse range of social, political, economic and cultural settings by attending specifically to the tensions emerging from conceptualisation of displacement by different subjects in daily practices. The aim is to collaboratively reveal the role of displacement discourse in constructing the historical-geographical conjuncture of domination/resistance, and to uncover power relations/ mechanisms and state effects produced within this conjuncture. Suggestive topics include:

  • Place-based understanding (especially outside the Western context) of displacement and its socio-spatial effects;
  • Conceptualising displacement by different subjects;
  • The role of space in enabling or bounding people’s conceptualisation of displacement, or in affecting their reflections on the gaps between different conceptualisations;
  • The state manoeuver and tactics in promoting displacement with legitimised (sometimes hegemonic) ideology;
  • The effects of different narratives in reshaping understandings of displacement and in opening up possibilities of resistances

Deadline: 15 February 2016

To be considered, please submit an abstract of 250 words (maximum) to all three email addresses above.

 

 

城市化的 “绿隔”：一个变形的寰宇主义想象

05 Sunday Jul 2015

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城市研究领域向来不缺乏论争的话题，更何况是在“城市化”正如火如荼的中国。

最近最令人瞩目的一个系列论战，当属周其仁和华生两位教授之间围绕土地用途管制和农地入市问题所展开的。华生教授的论点是，土地利用不仅是私权的行使，也涉及到公共利益，土地所有者的权利理应受到土地利用和城市规划政策的管制。周其仁教授则旗帜鲜明地反对这个立场，强调私权和市场机制应该在土地交易和使用的整个过程中发挥基础性作用，尚未装进笼子里的公权力这只老虎不足为信，所以土地用途管制和城市规划政策并不具有充足的限制私权的正当性。

尽管立场相左，两人在论辩中所援引的却大多都是英美两国的例子。可英美的情形到底佐证了哪一方的论点？2015年4月4日《经济学人》 (The Economist) 发表了一篇处于同一论域的封面报道。虽然文章被冠以 “Space and the City” 的标题，真正处理的却也是土地利用问题。文章中归纳了英美城市发展的两股潮流，第一股是在十九世纪晚期以前的无管制扩张，第二股是十九世纪晚期以降逐渐完善的土地和规划管制对城市扩张的限制，比如分区规划 (Zoning) 和修建绿化隔离带 (Green belt)。

《经济学人》文章的核心观点是，现有的（英美）土地利用管制手段和城市规划政策已经造成了地价、房价高昂等不经济的后果，亟须重新思考如何在社会公义与私人成本之间构建更健康的平衡。作为应对，政府应当考虑一方面将规划/分区的权力收回到更高层级（以防止社区为了私利损害城市整体的公共利益），另一方面开征（或者加征）土地价值税，以鼓励对未充分利用土地的开发。

与之相应和的是伦敦政治经济学院 (LSE) 经济地理教授 Paul Cheshire 近期发表的一系列文章。光看标题就能猜想出他的核心论点了，比如 “绿化隔离带迷思已经成为伦敦房价上涨的幕后推手”，以及 “在绿化隔离带上建房子吧：现在的问题只是建在哪一片而已”。看起来，“绿化隔离带” 这一英国规划界的骄傲成就（有时甚至被提高到不列颠民族身份认同的高度）俨然成了众矢之的。

有了这一系列背书，我们仿佛可以很快得出结论：土地利用管制和城市规划政策往往不仅无法实现目的，反而会造成经济上的无效率，因此周其仁教授的论点才是为事实所验证的那个。但是且慢，英美的故事在何种程度上能够成为解答我们自己问题的线索，这个问题本身就很关键。

在周华之争中，无论二者观点如何迥异，相同的特征是涂改和工具化地使用地理知识：周教授在种种保护私权的判例之外选择性忽视了公权力在城市空间变迁中的地位，而华教授为了论证公权力的意义也不得不转向东亚四小龙所表征的“发展型国家”的案例，而不管中国与“发展型国家”这个概念之间的距离。

对地理知识的投机性引用就是大卫哈维所界定的“地理意义上的平庸之恶” (the geographical banality of evil) 的典型样态。在这里，种种普世主张都宣称自己可以跨越历史和文化，超脱任何空间和时间的局限；当宣称的实际结果不奏效时，只需要怪咎于某地的特殊性即可，那普遍规则是不可能出错的——就如同世界银行贷款在非洲修建的许多表征着“现代性”的水坝，以及奋战在智利的芝加哥学派经济学家等案例所表明的那样。

为了躲开这个陷阱，我们就得更加关注空间概念和在地知识，在批判性地审视种种看起来美好的 “寰宇主义” (cosmopolitanism) 的同时，更深入地认识当下的、关系性的时空。在周华两位教授的论域之中，核心的关切并不是不列颠的民族认同会否受损，或者美国的分区应该由哪一级政府负责，而是正在“城市化”的我国广大 “城乡结合部” 应该如何处理土地和规划问题（因为将要入市的农地大多位于此处）；为此就需要把焦点转移到 “城乡结合部” 及其规划问题上来，看一看在这里空间与国家/社会是如何相互作用的。

意识到“寰宇主义”和在地知识的潜在张力之后，很快就会发现普世的诱惑无处不在。就比如，在北京的城市规划和土地用途管制体系中，有一个核心的部分也叫“绿化隔离带”。看见这个名字，诸位大概也不禁会问：北京的 “绿隔” 是怎么来的？与伦敦的 “绿隔” 又有什么异同？简单说来，“绿隔” 这个理论 “旅行” 的起点确实是伦敦，后来经由1930年代的莫斯科辗转来到1950年代的北京，最后在1990年代被落实到图纸上和实践中。

这些城市的 “绿隔” 同源，并因此有相似的定位：建立在城市中心区周边，作为控制城市空间扩张的工具；以绿色空间构建生态屏障，缓解污染问题，提供景观休闲场所。但是同源并不意味着北京的 “绿隔” 有着和伦敦类似的地位和效果；而且恰恰是其间的差异具有异乎寻常的重要性：这些差异所蕴含的在地知识不仅构成了反思普世方案的条件，而且是揭示关系性时空的重要线索。

也正因此，“浙江村” 这个曾经在学界被热烈讨论的名字就（重新）进入了视野之中。

上世纪九十年代，北京城南的一片村落开始吸引学界的目光。因为大量的浙江籍移民落户于此，这些村庄后来被统称为“浙江村”。这一区域在当时令人瞩目的特点有二：一是浙江商人以此为据点发展起来大规模的成衣加工和批发生意，二是流动人口们在事实上“占领”了城市化进程中的空间，通过租用集体土地（违法）建设大院，形成了一种“外在于城乡二元模型的国家-社会动态关系” （具体可参见张鹂和项飚的相关著作）。在学者们对这些村子进行田野调查的同时，北京市政府对它们（尤其是其中数不清的违法建设）的“清理整顿”也如火如荼地进行，并在1995年底实现了大范围的彻底拆除。

自此之后，学界对 “浙江村” 故事的关注逐渐让位于对更大尺度的流动人口问题的关切，而与之相关的空间焦点也随之转移到 “城中村” 这一更宽泛的表述之中。但当时和后来的文献都鲜有提及的是，“浙江村” 所指代的五个行政村大多都在1993-94年被列入到规划待建的北京市 “绿化隔离带” 之中。因此，1990年代前半段的五次大规模拆除违建行动（尤其是1995年的 “彻底拆除”），都需要与 “绿隔” 工程联系起来才能得到更好的理解。而在另一方面，这五个村子最近二十年的变与不变，也提供了一个极好的视角来观察 “绿隔” 工程自身的 “城市化”，和相应的变迁中的国家空间 (state space).

北京的绿化隔离带最早在1950年代便已提出。当时的城市规划思路大体上有两个来源，一个是苏联专家（以巴兰尼可夫和莫辛为代表），另一个是英美留学归国的城市规划专家（以梁思成、陈占祥为代表）。但事实上这两个路径的核心理念是相似的，基本上都遵循着分散组团的布局思路，通过种种空间单元及其区隔实现有机疏散的目标；这个思路也规定了当时乃至今日北京市空间规划的具体形态。

绿化隔离带在这个蓝图中起着隔离不同功能区、规范空间形态、减轻工业污染的重要作用。但是建国后初期的实际情况决定了绿化隔离带只能是一个设想。建设生产性城市的思路使得大量资源向工业区及其配套设施倾斜，而绿化方面的标准和要求就相应搁置了，甚至导致这一 “绿化隔离带” 并没有正式出现在城市规划图纸上。

1994年前后北京市开始考虑把这个 “构思” 了几十年的 “绿化隔离带” 搬到现实中，并出台了具体的实施方案，正式启动了 “绿隔” 工程。”浙江村” 所涉及到的行政村，多数都有土地被划入 “绿隔” 范围，这也就意味着，村庄的土地需要被（部分）征收，村民需要被重新安置，腾退的土地在理论上则要全部被拿去绿化。也正是在这个背景下，北京市开展了对 “浙江村” 地区的专项整治。

在《城市里的陌生人》中，张鹂将这个专项整治行动解读为高层重新聚拢政治权力的尝试：一方面，”外地人” 或 “流动人口”，以及表征着脏乱差的 “城中村”， 事实上进入了官方进行社会排序 (social odering) 的话语之中，并被视作大多城市问题的渊薮；另一方面，也是更关键的，外来人口社区代表着一种全新的空间化权力，并对既有权力体系构成了威胁。

社会排序和权力话语确实构成了专项整治的因果机制的重要一环，但并不是全部。在这里，空间也出场了。

“浙江村” 的空间转型不仅改变了权力的面貌，也彻底重塑了村民的生活。一方面，“绿化隔离带” 工程的实施，给地方政府和村委会提供了一条新的运作空间的路径。在这个路径里，“绿隔” 只是成为一种话语；借这种话语所要实施的工程本身，和 “绿化” 的目标渐行渐远。而在另一方面，曾经以 “种房子” 或者出租土地为生的村民／居民，也日渐被裹挟进入地方政府的土地逻辑之中，从当年对 “浙江村” 拆迁的抗拒，转而变为对拆迁和安置房的期待，并且在这个过程中出现了因户口而导致的利益分化和钉子户现象——只是这里选择当钉子户的，大多是拥有城市户口的居民。

“绿隔” 的实施政策在过去二十年中调整过多次，从1994年的7号文，再到2000年的20号文，最后演进到2008年的17号文。虽然具体的政策内容多有变化，但是核心关切是相似的：一方面要把规定了的绿地实施出来，另一方面要把农民转变为市民，把 “城乡结合部” 转变为 “城市” 空间。为了实现这些目的，财政并不拨款，所需资金由各实施单位（也就是乡或者村）按照政策规定筹集。

那么政策具体是如何规定筹资事宜的呢？前面已经说了，理论上看，各个村子里征收了的绿化用地自然要全部变绿；但是为了让整个工程成为可能，这个理论设想只能放在一边，允许实施单位拿出一块地来经营，通过利润填补整个项目的成本。接下来的两个问题是：谁来经营、如何经营？二十年间的政策变了又变，没有变的是村集体的核心地位，以及土地和房地产开发带动绿化实施的核心思路。

渐渐地，村委会变成了房地产开发公司。张鹂书中曾经提到，在1995年的大拆迁之后不久，大红门服装商贸城正式开门营业。她没有提到的是，这个商贸城的真正投资人和受益人，正是商贸城所在的那个村庄。村庄们并不满足于此。借助村庄改制的浪潮，他们在2000年代纷纷成立股份公司，把以前的集体经济组织升格，成为村庄所有集体资产的统一经营者，这包括了所有集体土地，也包括了（为了实施绿隔建设）经政策允许的房地产开发项目。

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市政府也并没有袖手旁观。他们不停地更新政策，不停地寻找切入到这一空间改造的最佳途径，最终发现 “土地储备” 制度是一个很好的 “抓手”。于是接下来的结果大概就耳熟能详了，在2010年之后的那几年里，城乡结合部的村庄里（相当一部分都是绿隔的实施单元）时不时地传出来土储中心拍卖地块、新 “地王” 诞生的讯息，给火热的房地产市场加上了一把又一把柴薪。

“土地财政” 的表述在学界早已不新鲜，吸引人的是去观察它的具体操作过程。在后-“浙江村” 的这二十年时间里，大红门地区所经历的空间变革是显著的， 这不仅是物理意义上的显著，更是政治经济意义上的显著。这里的变化，事实上是由城市规划项目包装而成的土地财政导致的，空间的变迁不仅是目的，而且成了原因。

除去少数较具规模的公园以及边河边的矮小树林外，我在这里几乎没再见到绿色。说好的 “绿化隔离带” 去了哪里？分散组团是否还能成立？有机疏散是否还是目标？规划界的反思正日渐深入。除了规划部门的工作人员之外，学界也开始对与这一现象相似的很多故事进行归纳。

最新的一个成果，是把这样的空间工程视为一个更宏大的政治经济机制的具体表现，这个机制则被命名为 “Planning for Growth” (Wu Fulong, 2015): 在中国，城市规划并不是如西方同行那样限制市场之手的运作，而是成为市长青睐的工具，在城市经济增长和政府的企业化行为 (entrepreneurialism) 中发挥着举足轻重的作用。

也正是在这样的机制里，北京的绿隔与伦敦的绿带分道扬镳。绿隔在北京不再成其为规范空间布局的工具，而是城市空间的扩张和蔓延本身。换句话说，绿隔不是城市化的边界，它自己正在被 “城市化”。

村民的日常生活也在这个空间变迁的过程里被重塑，这尤其鲜明地体现在他们对待拆迁的态度变化之中。在1990年代的拆迁之时，大红门的村民或多或少都有抵触情绪，因为他们当时基本都是靠 “种房子” 为生。清理违建的行动一旦推进，流动人口一旦被扫地出门，他们的生计也就会立刻受到影响。但是后来呢？在大规模的清理之后，大红门的村民逐渐地进入到一个新的状态，那就是盼望着再次拆迁——不是拆违建，而是拆自己家的房子。

随着城市空间的逐渐扩张，大红门的区位优势日益凸显（换一个表述就是那儿的土地越来越值钱）。村委会们充分利用这个机遇，纷纷建起了服装商贸城等交易场所，借房租获取收入。而村民们并无资格通过个人行动来利用上升的地价，事实上他们也并不真正关心采取什么特别的行动，因为他们知道：只要村庄宅基地上的拆迁能够得以实施，那么（日益上涨的）补偿和安置的费用已经足够他们维持（优渥的）生计。

虽然早已在1994年即已被列入 “绿隔” 工程的实施名单，但是大红门地区很多村庄的拆迁和改造却迟迟推行不了。这其中的阻力因素自然很多，比如国有大院零散分布在集体土地上，比如村集体自己出租土地给企业作厂房或仓库，合同尚未到期，等等。但更重要的原因，是盼着拆迁的村民对补偿款的期待与最初的方案能够给予的数量并不吻合。在一轮又一轮地价上涨的大背景下，讨价还价也无休无止。

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大红门村拆迁之后

直到最后，双方终于在新政策（四万亿催生的 “重点村” 改造工程）的引领下顺利达成一致，安置房动工，村庄拆迁开始。就在这时，一个新鲜又伤感的故事冒了出来：村子里还住着六七百户拥有城市户口的 “居民”（以区别于农村户口的 “村民”），他们的拆迁应该如何操作？这些居民不是 “村集体” 的一员，所以自然不会得到如同村民那样高的补偿和安置待遇；但是居民和村民都是邻居，他们之间有关补偿的比较也就很容易进行。结果就是：居民能获得的补偿远远低于村民，不满因此而生发出来，并最终落地，变成了 “钉子户” 现象。

地理学理论对 “空间” 概念的关系性思考正在逐步深入。其中一个重要的论点就是：“空间被我们表征和概念化的方式，也许会影响我们物质感知这个空间的方式，以及我们生活于其中的方式。这些日常实践将进一步引导我们为自己建立特定的 ‘生活空间’，一方面承载、另一方面形塑我们的生活”。开心地搬进了安置房小区的村民，和倔强地守着自己租住公房的 “居民” – “钉子户” 们，其实都在（表征层面）构建和更新自己的 “生活空间”，并通过这一空间实践自己 “城市化” 了的生活。

空间的意义不止于此，它还成为地方政府掌控社会变迁的新渠道。通过协助构建村集体自己的开发公司，原先濒于解体的 “集体” 又重新获得了权力——由经济而传导至政治层面的权力。而村庄里那些被重新安置、被 “城市化” 了的村民，则在村集体的公司之中重新获取饭碗、按月领取补贴。在这个过程之中，曾经主宰着 “浙江村” 地区的社会排序话语 (the discourse of social ordering) 退场，让位给了空间排序 (spatial ordering)，并经由后者组织了一套新的 “治理术” (govermentality).

在关系性的时空中，普世方案所宣称的 “普世性” 需要我们重新审视。如果你支持周教授的观点，认为市场机制是配置城乡土地与空间资源的最有效手段，因此农地应当被允许直接入市，那么你将如何处理权力日盛的作为房地产开发公司的村集体？他们作为集体土地的所有者的法律地位和事实状态是否应当取消、要如何才能取消？如果你支持华教授的观点，认为土地利用应当受规划管制，那么你如何看待中国的 “Planning for Growth” 的政经机制？规划与公权力之间的联结该如何对待、如何改造、如何更新？一个更无奈的问题是：改造和更新是否可能？

在我看来，与其从一个寰宇主义想象（”绿化隔离带”）的陷阱跳到另一个寰宇主义想象（万能的和不言自明的自由市场或者规划管制）的陷阱，我们其实有别样的选择。这就是重新观察空间，尤其是观察空间与国家／政治经济的接口，观察经由空间生产并反向重塑空间的种种社会关系，然后再立足于这种对关系性时空及其在地性的理解来重新想象其他可能。

在这个过程中，我们需要一种对地方的全局感 (a global sense of place), 而不是全盘接受已被证明具有虚幻性的那些 “寰宇主义” 的 “普世方案”。

 

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Selected Panels in 2015 AAG Annual Conference

08 Wednesday Apr 2015

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Below is a list of panels I select from the programme of this year’s AAG (Association of American Geographers) Annual Conference. Those who do research on/ through the following keywords may be of interests on this list: comparative urbanism, China/ East Asia, rights, territory, state space, mobilities, modernity, David Harvey, and other critical urban theories/ theorists.

It will be great if you could join me to audit (some of) these panels and then further our discussions in the evening drinking sessions! lol

4.21 Tue

1142 Geography and EP Thompson
is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/21/2015, from 8:00 AM – 9:40 AM in Regency A, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Kathryn Wells)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21296

1162 Mobility Transitions 1
is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/21/2015, from 8:00 AM – 9:40 AM in McCormick, Hyatt, West Tower, Silver Level (Organiser: Tim Cresswell)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21590

1140 Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South
is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/21/2015, from 8:00 AM – 9:40 AM in Hong Kong, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Ananya Roy)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21635

1245 Thinking the Urban from….(I) comparative experiments
is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/21/2015, from 10:00 AM – 11:40 AM in Regency D, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Fulong Wu; Jennifer Robinson)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21645

1445 Thinking the Urban from….(II) relations
is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/21/2015, from 12:40 PM – 2:20 PM in Regency D, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Fulong Wu; Jennifer Robinson)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21646

1436 CITY Debates: (Re)defining the urban and the question of social justice.
is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/21/2015, from 12:40 PM – 2:20 PM in Water Tower, Hyatt, West Tower, Bronze Level (Organised by CITY and Alex Schafran; panelists inc. M. Storper)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=22053

1545 Thinking the Urban from….(III) elsewhere
is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/21/2015, from 2:40 PM – 4:20 PM in Regency D, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Fulong Wu; Jennifer Robinson)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21644

1645 Thinking Cities from….(IV) distinctive theorisations?
is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/21/2015, from 4:40 PM – 6:20 PM in Regency D, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Fulong Wu; Jennifer Robinson)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21554

4.22 Wed

2145 The Politics of Desire and Despair: Contextualising Rights in Urban Protests against Displacement in Asia and Beyond (1)

is scheduled on Wednesday, 4/22/2015, from 8:00 AM – 9:40 AM in Regency D, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Hyun Bang Shin)
http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21229

2245 The Politics of Desire and Despair: Contextualising Rights in Urban Protests against Displacement in Asia and Beyond (2)

is scheduled on Wednesday, 4/22/2015, from 10:00 AM – 11:40 AM in Regency D, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Hyun Bang Shin)
http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21230

2445 The Politics of Desire and Despair: Contextualising Rights in Urban Protests against Displacement in Asia and Beyond (3)

is scheduled on Wednesday, 4/22/2015, from 1:20 PM – 3:00 PM in Regency D, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Hyun Bang Shin)
http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21310

2521 Outcast Cities III: Spatial Strategies of/against Displacement

is scheduled on Wednesday, 4/22/2015, from 3:20 PM – 5:00 PM in Grand B, Hyatt, East Tower, Gold Level (Organisers: Asher Ghertner)
http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=22442

2508 Mobilities and Spatial Modernity in Contemporary China-2

is scheduled on Wednesday, 4/22/2015, from 3:20 PM – 5:00 PM in Skyway 282, Hyatt, East Tower, Blue Level (Organisers: Su Xiaobo and Zhu Hong)
http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=22921

2522 Author-Meets-Critics: David Harvey’s Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

is scheduled on Wednesday, 4/22/2015, from 3:20 PM – 5:00 PM in Grand C/D North, Hyatt, East Tower, Gold Level
http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21580

2621 Outcast Cities IV: Theorizing the Urban Beyond Displacement

is scheduled on Wednesday, 4/22/2015, from 5:20 PM – 7:00 PM in Grand B, Hyatt, East Tower, Gold Level (Organisers: Asher Ghertner; introduction by Gareth Jones)
http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=22452

2675 Place, politics and the declining city

is scheduled on Wednesday, 4/22/2015, from 5:20 PM – 7:00 PM in Lucerne 3, Swissôtel, Lucerne Level (Inc: Jamie Peck’s prst)
http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21151

4.23 Thu

3105 Revisiting Entrepreneurialism: the logics of urban governance in systemic crisis (1)
is scheduled on Thursday, 4/23/2015, from 8:00 AM – 9:40 AM in Skyway 272, Hyatt, East Tower, Blue Level (Organised by Clark scholars)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21287

3257 Marxist geography 1: Use and critique of David Harvey’s work
is scheduled on Thursday, 4/23/2015, from 10:00 AM – 11:40 AM in Addams, Hyatt, West Tower, Silver Level (Organiser: Jamie Gough; focusing on Harvey’s works)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=22672

3245 The Value of Capitalist Natures III: Life, Waste, Finance
is scheduled on Thursday, 4/23/2015, from 10:00 AM – 11:40 AM in Regency D, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Kelly Kay)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21432

3445 The Value of Capitalist Natures IV: Future Directions
is scheduled on Thursday, 4/23/2015, from 1:20 PM – 3:00 PM in Regency D, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Kelly Kay)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21433

3442 Urban Geography Plenary Lecture: Ananya Roy, “What is Urban About Critical Urban Theory?”
is scheduled on Thursday, 4/23/2015, from 1:20 PM – 3:00 PM in Regency A, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21816

3457 Marxist geography 2: Nature, economy, employment
is scheduled on Thursday, 4/23/2015, from 1:20 PM – 3:00 PM in Addams, Hyatt, West Tower, Silver Level (Organiser: Jamie Gough; inc. K. Cox’s prst)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=22675

3557 Marxist geography 3: Harvey, capitalism, technologies and nature
is scheduled on Thursday, 4/23/2015, from 3:20 PM – 5:00 PM in Addams, Hyatt, West Tower, Silver Level (Organiser: Jamie Gough)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=22678

3549 The Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography: “The right to work, and the right at work” – Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia
is scheduled on Thursday, 4/23/2015, from 3:20 PM – 5:00 PM in Crystal B, Hyatt, West Tower, Green Level (By Jamie Peck)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21441

3675 Current Events Roundtable: The Occupy Central/Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong
is scheduled on Thursday, 4/23/2015, from 5:20 PM – 7:00 PM in Lucerne 3, Swissôtel, Lucerne Level (Organiser: A. Murphy and G. Lin)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=23813

2015 AAG IJURR Lecture

is scheduled on Thursday, 4/23, from 5:20 PM – 7:00 PM in Crystal B, Hyatt Regency, West Tower, Green Level

This year the IJURR Lecture will be given by Nik Theodore, and is entitled: Subject Spaces: The Ethics of Co-producing Urban Research.

4.24 Fri

4150 On Stuart Hall

is scheduled on Friday, 4/24/2015, from 8:00 AM – 9:40 AM in Crystal C, Hyatt, West Tower, Green Level (Organiser: Sharad Chari)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=22571

4418 Tuan’s Next Generation: Modern scholarship influenced by the iconic geographer
is scheduled on Friday, 4/24/2015, from 1:20 PM – 3:00 PM in Columbus IJ, Hyatt, East Tower, Gold Level

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=22368

4542 Territory, Politics, Governance Annual Lecture – Bob Jessop
is scheduled on Friday, 4/24/2015, from 3:20 PM – 5:00 PM in Regency A, Hyatt, West Tower, Gold Level

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=23491

4658 Cities of Tomorrow: In Honor of Peter Hall II
is scheduled on Friday, 4/24/2015, from 5:20 PM – 7:00 PM in Burnham, Hyatt, West Tower, Silver Level (Chaired by Erica Schoenberger; panelists inc. M. Castells and M. Storper)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21241

4.25 Sat

5126 Cases, spaces and situations I
is scheduled on Saturday, 4/25/2015, from 8:00 AM – 9:40 AM in Grand Suite 3, Hyatt, East Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Murray M. Low)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21339

5161 Migration in China (I): The Social and Cultural Impact

is scheduled on Saturday, 4/25/2015, from 8:00 AM – 9:40 AM in Horner, Hyatt, West Tower, Silver Level (Organisers: Huang Youqin and He Shenjing)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21195

5226 Cases, spaces and situations II
is scheduled on Saturday, 4/25/2015, from 10:00 AM – 11:40 AM in Grand Suite 3, Hyatt, East Tower, Gold Level (Organiser: Murray M. Low)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21340

5237 Grounding Knowledge, Assembling Policies II – Urban policy circulations in the Global South
is scheduled on Saturday, 4/25/2015, from 10:00 AM – 11:40 AM in Wrigley, Hyatt, West Tower, Bronze Level (Organiser: Gabriel Silvestre and Luis Regis Coli)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21679

5461 Contesting Urban Space in East Asia: Recasting Neoliberalism upon Housing
is scheduled on Saturday, 4/25/2015, from 2:00 PM – 3:40 PM in Horner, Hyatt, West Tower, Silver Level (Organisers: Hyun Bang Shin and Asato Saito)

http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=21496