Many members of the UPD Research Cluster will be convenors, chairs, discussants and authors at this year’s RGS-IBG (Royal Geographic Society with the Institute of British Geographers) Annual Conference. This year’s annual conference is chaired by Peter Jackson and will explore the theme ‘Nexus Thinking’. The conference will be held by the Royal Geographical Society in London, from Tuesday 30 August to Friday 2 September, 2016.
Detailed information about sessions featuring UPD staff and research students can be accessed by clicking the links below.
STAFF PRESENCE
- Discussant, ‘Author Meets Critics: Sarah Radcliffe’s Dilemmas of Difference and the limits of postcolonial development policy‘
- Presenter, ‘Migration, Low Pay and Work Incentives in London’ in session ‘The geography of work, employment and poverty‘
- Convenor, Chair, Author of ‘Deregulating short-term lettings in London: innovation or policy-led informality?’ in session ‘Housing Practices, Informality and the Global North (1)‘
- Convenor, ‘Housing Practices, Informality and the Global North (2)‘
- Convenor of ‘The City-Hinterland Nexus in Global Context: The dynamics of rural-urban connections in different global contexts (1)‘
- Convenor of ‘The City-Hinterland Nexus in Global Context: The dynamics of rural-urban connections in different global contexts (2); also Presenter, ‘Presenter of ‘Bringing the rural back in: postcolonial suburbs in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’ in the session
- Convenor and Chair, ‘Negotiating citizenship across (post)colonial borders‘
- Presenter, ‘Aspirational Infrastructures: Making Elite Private Housing in India’ in session ‘Cities, Housing and Infrastructure: the politics of urban change (1): Housing and the politics of urban change in the Global South‘
- Convenor, ‘Housing Practices, Informality and the Global North (1)‘
- Convenor, ‘Housing Practices, Informality and the Global North (2)‘
- Presenter, ‘An Urban Crisis: Syrian Refugees, Humanitarian responses and the Politics of Governance in Lebanon’ in the session ‘Responding to the ‘refugee crisis’: critical geographies and the politics of support (1)‘
- Convenor and Discussant, ‘Narrating Displacements: A Radical Way to Rethink Urban Theories and Politics‘
- Discussant, ‘Authors meet critics: Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin and Ernesto López-Morales’ Planetary Gentrification‘
- Discussant, ‘Author meets critics: Geoff DeVerteuil – Resilience in the Post-welfare inner city: Voluntary Sector Geographies in London, Los Angeles and Sydney‘
RESEARCH STUDENT PRESENCE
- Presenter, ‘Space, Identity and the Politics of Belonging: Migrant domestic worker and their unequal access to Singapore’ in session ‘New and Emerging Research within Gender and Feminist Geography (1)‘
- Presenter, ‘From Survival to Decent Work: Supporting Home-Based Enterprises in Santiago de Chile’ in session ‘Geographies of housing (2): policy and crisis‘
- Convenor and Presenter, ‘Who has the right to remain in place?’ in session ‘Narrating Displacements: A Radical Way to Rethink Urban Theories and Politics‘
- Co-Convenor, Chair and Presenter of ‘Moving back to the Center: investing in cruel optimism on the margins of modern Cairo’ in session ‘Youth and Urban Marginality‘
- Co-Convenor, ‘Youth and Urban Marginality‘
- Presenter, ‘Reconceptualising Green Space: Austerity as an Impetus for London’s Changing Green Space Governance’ in session ‘Contested urban green spaces in the ‘austerity city’: Re-politicising the environment and commoning public spaces? (2): Planning and Governance‘
- Convenor, Chair and Presenter, ‘Antagonistic Space and Subjects in Beijing’s Greenbelt’ in session ‘Narrating Displacements: A Radical Way to Rethink Urban Theories and Politics‘
