32nd International Geographical Congress in Cologne 2012 - Call for Papers
Session “Neighborhood Governance Under Conditions of Globalization – An International Perspective”
The debates on the question of the governance of states through their political systems have increased not only in number but also in their intensity. They extend, for example, from the crisis in or structuring of state social security systems to the transformation of states following system breakdowns, to the disintegration processes triggered by those breakdowns, to democratic deficits, and to bloated or even undersized civil services in contexts of urban growth and shrinking. On the one hand, these discussions make clear the high expectations of governance systems, but on the other they also reveal serious contradictions within systems. One strategy to deal with this contradictions is the partial withdrawal of the state from tasks in almost all policy areas – an approach accompanied in the theoretical discourse by the conceptual clarification of ‘government to governance’. The governance discourse is usually conducted at the state or urban level, less often at the neighborhood level. Neighborhoods, however, in the wake of new forms of governance are considered an important nucleus of the “glocalized” society in which challenges of modern societies are dealt with under quasi-laboratory conditions and possible solutions are to some extent found in terms of small-scale, participatory-oriented local governance. Under these assumptions there have been developed in recent years models and concepts that focus on different levels and that have already been partially applied to neighborhood development, for example the Urban Regime Theory, network theories, Regulation Theory, social area analysis or even concepts such as Public Private Partnerships (PPP) or Neighborhood Branding. International academic linkages in neighborhood research are relatively sparse. The aim of the meeting is to establish linkages between active but hitherto rather solitary research spheres and to discuss and compare at the international level concepts, tools and models of neighborhood governance.
Deadlines: The call will be open from 1 July 2011 until 15 December 2011.
Abstract submission:
Abstracts can solely be submitted online. Proposals submitted by postal mail or fax will not be accepted. The IGC 2012 offers an online submission system to submit all abstracts.
Please follow the 5-step procedure described below for submitting your paper or poster abstract:
1. Create an account on the IGC 2012 website (https://igc2012.org/).
2. Choose the session for which you want to submit your abstract from the list of available sessions on the IGC website.
3. Log in to your account.
4. Fill in your personal data and provide an abstract of your paper or poster of no more than 3000 characters. You can either copy and paste your abstract into the form or type your abstract directly into the appropriate box.
5. Submit your abstract.
Please bear in mind that abstracts must not exceed 3000 characters and that it will not be possible to include graphs, maps, pictures etc in the text. The number of abstracts is limited to two abstracts per person.
The selection of papers for each session will be the responsibility of the session chairs. Participants will be informed about acceptance by 15 February 2012 to take advantage of early registration for the reduced IGC conference fee.
Session Chairs:
Dr. Matthias Drilling
Head of the Institute of Social Planning and Urban Development
University of Applied Sciences
Departement Social Work
Thiersteinerallee 57
CH‐4053 Basel
Switzerland
eMail: matthias.drilling[at]fhnw.ch
PD Dr. Olaf Schnur
Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen
Institute of Geography
Dept. of Urban and Neighborhood Studies
Visiting Professor, Dept. Manager
Ruemelinstraße 19-23
D-72070 Tuebingen
Germany
eMail: olaf.schnur[at]web.de
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