[Urbanstudy] Call for Collaboration: GEST-Group for the Study of Society and Territory.

[Joel Outtes]

Call for Collaboration: GEST-Group for the Study of Society and Territory,
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

GEST- The Group for the Study of Society and Territory, a research group
based at UFRGS-The Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto
Alegre-RS, Brazil, is interested in establishing agreements and
collaborating with colleagues in other institutions, cities and countries.
We can either be a South American and/or American "leg" of comparative
research projects and/or have colleagues as partners in any of our projects.

We are also willing to collaborate with other colleagues applying for NEH,
and/or NSF grants as well as other funding agencies worldwide such as the
European Science Foundation. For instance, I have just received a message
from the NSF representative for international collaboration with Brazil
saying that they are prepared to fund research here as long as there is/are
USA-based colleagues willing to put research bids together with us at GEST.

We have several research projects, many with a strong historic component. I
would like to say that I do accept new partners in these projects, where we
have several undergraduate research assistants, the so-called "estagiários
de iniciação científica" in the Brazilian research system. This is to say
that if you want to propose your own project, I am "here" to discuss
possibilities and if you want to become a partner in a comparative study
with any of the projects below, which are obviously in different degrees of
completion, we can also explore options together. Please find below our
description.

GEST-Group for the Study of Society and Territory.

GEST is an interdisciplinary research group based at the Universidade
Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil; composed of
professors, researchers, graduate and undergraduate students. GEST members
work on subjects ranging from the History and Geography of Housing and
Cities in South America to the Spatial Dynamics of Crime in the Metropolitan
Region of Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil.

Other research interests in the group include economic restructuring,
spatial cycles and their spatial impacts; residential and intra-metropolitan
mobility; and the grape and the colonization of the Brazilian territory: A
Geography of wine. GEST members have done empirical work in places such as
Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Recife, Porto Alegre, and Buenos Aires, and in
several libraries and universities in Europe (Paris, Oxford, Cambridge,
London, Stockholm, Copenhaguen, Turim), Latin America, and the USA
(Chicago, Washington, Milwaukee, New York, and Boston).

We are also interested in receiving foreign scholars to give lectures here.
We recently received Prof. Shaul Krakover who gave a set of lectures on
Spatial Cycles. We have no funds to pay travel expenses from abroad at the
moment, but we might pay your travel from any point in Brazil and we will
provide accomodation here for sure. Please get in touch if you want to
lecture or do research here.

GEST research projects include:

1. Cities Representing the Nation: Planning and Nation-Building in Brazil in
a Comparative Perspective (1855-2005).

2. At the Crossroad of Urban and Social Reform: The International Federation
for Housing and Planning and the International Union of Local Authorities in
a Comparative Perspective (1913-2005).

3. The Urban and Environmental History of the Porto Alegre and Caxias do Sul
Metropolitan Regions, Brazil.

4. Spatial Dynamics of Crime in the Metropolitan Regions of Porto Alegre and
Caxias do Sul: A Geography of Unlegal Territories.

5. Geography of Wine: Grapes and the Colonization of Southern Brazil (c.
1875-2005).

6. Economic Restructuring and its Impacts in South America, Brazil and Rio
Grande do Sul.

7. The History of Housing and Housing Policies in Brazil in a Comparative
Perspective (c. 1850-2005).

8. Intra-Metropolitan Residential Mobility in the Regions of Porto Alegre
and Caxias do Sul, Brazil (1886-2005).

9. Participative Democracy and Urban Planning in the Metropolitan Regions of
Porto Alegre and Caxias do Sul.

If you would like to establish any kind of collaboration with GEST and/or
discuss possibilities, please write to me. Please forward this message to
interested parts.

Thank you for your time and consideration.
Yours,

Joel Outtes

Prof. Dr Joel Outtes, DPhil (University of Oxford)
Head, GEST-Group for the Study of Society and Territory
UFRGS-Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
E-mail: Outtes at uol.com.br

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