A tentative Programme of the Theme 8 (first draft/ 12 May 2002)

Critical Political Economies:

Cities, Regions and the International Economy

Panel Sessions

1. Political Economy of East Asia in the Process of Globalization

Organizer and Chairperson: Choi, Byung-Doo, University S.Korea

Political Economy of East Asia in the Process of Globalization: Introduction

Participants:

Mizuoka, Fujio, Hitotsubashi University Japan (accepted)

Surmounting public debt in Japan and the Approach of the final solution

Hsia, Chu-Joe, National Taiwan University Taiwan (accepted)

A critical space in globalization: historic conservation of the beer production in Taipei

Cho, Myung-Rae, Dankook University, S. Korea (accepted)

Neo-liberal urban changes after the IMF crisis: the case of Glurbanizing Seoul, Korea

Debin, Du, East China Normal University, PR. China (suggested)

Foreign investment and changing social and economic structure in Shanghai

2. Globalization reconsidered

Organizer and Chairperson:

Participants:

Park, BaeGyoon, National University of Singapore (suggested)

(Title TBA)

Derudder, Ben, University of Ghent, Belgium,

The spatial organization of globalisation: a geography without place ?

Smith, Richard, University of Leicester, UK

World city actor-networks

Wiercinski, Nateysz, Akademia Swietokrzyska, Poland,

Globalization and the problem of survival of tribal cultures

3. Urban and Regional Transition of Post-Socialist Countries

Organizer and Chairperson: TBA

Participants:

Simandan, Dragos, University of Bristol, UK

Theorising the failure to implement capitalism: from the analyses of macro-economic polities to the rhetoric of ethnic inadequacy

Wilczynski, Witold, Akademia Swietokrzyska, Poland,

Social construction of regional space in Poland

Keresztely, Krisztina, Centre for Regional Studies, Hungary

(title TBA)

Kiss, Janos, P. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

(title TBA)

Kovac, Zoltan, Hungarian Academy of Science

Geographical features of post-socialist urban transformation in East Central Europe

Paper Sessions

1. Critical Perspectives on Urban development Strategies

Organizer and/or Chairperson: TBA

Participants:

Huijbens, Edward H., University of Durham, UK

Multipolis: the multiple coexisting spatial temporalities in the modern western metropolis

Lund Hansen, Anders, Lund University, Sweden

Space wars in Copenhagen

Robinson, Jenny, The Open University, UK

City development strategies: scope for alternative urban development

Kang, Hyun-Soo, Jungbu University, S.Korea

Korean Regional Policy after the Economic Crisis: A Critique

2. Urban Planning and Politics in Transition

Organizer and/or Chairperson: TBA

Participants:

Nielsen, Esben Holm, Roskilde University, Denmark

Everyday participation, socio-spatial strategies and the construction of fields of urban polities

Po, Lan-Chih, University of Beijing, PR China

Planning in transition

Ebrahimzadeh, Issa, University of Sistanand Baluchestan, Iran,

Migration and urban dwelling without planning Case Study

3. Segregation, Polarization and Urban Poverty

Organizer and/or Chairperson: TBA

Participants

De Brito Soares, Paulo Ricardo, State University of Campinas, Brazil

Zoning and socio-spatial segregation in Campinas.S.P. Brazil

Yim, Seok-Hoe, Taegu University, S.Korea

Geographical Feature of Social Polarization in Seoul, S. Korea

Waack, Christoph, Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany

Gold rush in Romania - strategy for regional development against poverty or dirty game of global players ?

Rahnema, Rahim, Ferdowsi Mashhad University

Strategies for reduction of urban poverty in Iran case study

4. New Perspectives on Urban Culture and Cultural Governance

Organizer and/or Chairperson: TBA

Participants

Thorsen, Hans W.E., Nord-Trondelag University College, Norway

Cross-boundary educational network in middle Scandinavia

Schyma, Bernd, University of Cologne, Germany,

New electronic music in Cologne: scenes, structures and flows

Bickl, Martin, University of Durham, UK

Image, representations and governance in Inward Investment promotion

Barimani, Faramarz, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran

Hembazi: A kind of unknown cultivational system in the North of Iran