Power,
Territory and Transnationalism theme sessions planned:
Chair: Altha Cravey
Papers:
1. Anna Secor, University of Kentucky, “Re-imagining civil society: A view from Istanbul”
2. Pun Ngai, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, “The Politics of Dyscape: Mapping Everyday Resistances in a Hong Kong Community”
3. Ralph Saunders, California State University-Dominguez Hills, “Transnational Communities and National Identity in Los Angeles"
4. Hung-Jen Tan, National Taiwan Normal University, “The politics of public space: a case study from Taiwan”
Chair: Scott Kirsch
Papers:
1. Ben Derudder, University of Ghent, “Timeless Time and Placeless Space in a Network Society? A Geohistorical Critique”
2. Anna Clua, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, “Whose information? Locating ‘information society’”
3. Janos Kiss, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, “Who is subsidized by the state? The role of governmental policy in the growth of regional differences in Hungary after 1990”
4. Gabriel Videla, University of Buenos Aires, “Exploring current capital(ism) through the international hotel industry: An approximation from Buenos Aires”
Chair: Scott Kirsch
Panelists:
1. Altha Cravey, University of North Carolina
2. Scott Kirsch, University of North Carolina
3. Claudio Minca, University of Venice
4. Joe Painter, University of Durham
5. Blanca Ramirez, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Chair: tba*
Papers:
1. Jeronimo Montero, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina, “Obstacles for the FTAA and the ‘military option’: Lights and shadows in Latin America”
2. Neil Smith, CUNY, “Mapping the American Century: Lost geographies and failed globalizations from Versailles to Afghanistan”
3. Banu Gokariksel, University of Washington, “Territorializing Globalization and Transnationalism: Developing the Concept of “Situated Modernities”
4. Katharyne Mitchell, University of Washington, “Comparative Geographies of Globalization, Neoliberalism and Education”