Learning from Small Cities: New Urban Frontiers in the Global South
Further to my earlier CfP for the 2014 Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG) annual meeting, I am very pleased to announce that our double session 'Learning from Small Cities: New urban Frontiers in the Global South' has been chosen to represent RGS-IBG/Wiley’s new open access journal Geo, which will launch at the conference. As part of this RGS-IBG are sponsoring a set of sessions that are engaging with audiences in novel ways across the discipline of geography. These sessions are expected to be 'high-quality, innovative, peer-reviewed research that makes the most of digital and open access capabilities to engage new audiences and policy-makers in new ways'. These sessions will be highlighted in the written conference materials and signaled through the conference app. They are approaching around 6/7 different session/strands – our double session is one of the strands.Listed below are the breadth of papers that will be part of this double session.
LEARNING FROM SMALL CITIES: NEW URBAN FRONTIERS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
Organizers: Ayona Datta (University of Leeds, UK) and Abdul Shaban (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai)Paper Session: Learning from Small Cities: Urban neoliberalism and 'smallness'
Urban Neoliberalism and Small Cities in the Global South Mathieu Hilgers (Free University of Brussels)
Learning from Solo (aka Surakarta), Indonesia Tim Bunnell (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
The Taj Mahal Love Story: ‘Smallness’ in the age of heritage tourism in Agra Sheela Prasad (University of Hyderabad), Kapil Kumar Gavsker (University of Hyderabad)
The Forgotten City: Small Urban Centres in the Global South Ian M. Cook (Central European University, Hungary)
Redefining the role and place of small towns and cities in the South African urban system Etienne Nel (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Panel Session: Learning from Small Cities: Urban experiments, creativity and identity
City Forgotten: Urbanization and local citizenship in Malegaon, Maharashtra Ayona Datta (University of Leeds) and Abdul Shaban (Tata Institute of Social Sciences)
Auroville, Utopianism, City-ness: experimental urbanism, ideology and the ‘city’ as category of analysis Tariq Jazeel (University College London)
Ramallah is (not) Paris Christopher Harker (Durham University)
Urban Citizenship in Small Cities: Dalit identity in Pokhara during political transition in Nepal Bishnu Pariyar (University of Leeds), Jon Lovett (University of Leeds)
Vibrant small cities can keep rural youth closer to home: A case study of Narendra Nagar, Tehri Garwhal, India Mutka Naik (mHS City Lab)