[Urbanstudy] CFP: Ecologies of Urbanism in Asia II: Cities, Towns, and the Places of Nature, Hong Kong, June 9-12, 2014

[Curt Gambetta]

Courtesy of the H-Asia list.

May 3, 2013

Call for papers{ Ecologies of Urbanism in Asia (South Asia, 
Southeast Asia, South China) II: Cities, Towns, and the Places of 
Nature, Hong Kong, June 9-12, 2014
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From: Sahana Ghosh <sahana.ghosh at yale.edu>

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*Ecologies of Urbanism in Asia II: Cities, Towns, and the Places of 
Nature*

*June 9-12, 2014*

*Hong Kong*

*Anne Rademacher and K. Sivaramakrishnan*

We invite paper submissions for a conference to investigate urbanism,
nature, and ecological sustainability in Asian cities and towns. We will
explore the ways that urban social processes intersect with assessments of
urban environmental order and disorder in specific cities by asking, how
are relationships between urban environments and urban societies made, and
made *meaningful*? How do biophysical properties, rules, and histories of
nature matter in the city? How is the urban environment used to construct
social identities and demarcate political spaces?

  The papers will engage cases grounded in the cities and towns of South
Asia, Southeast Asia, and south China. We seek submissions in the following
thematic areas: the political ecology of the city, urban environmentalism,
nodes and networks, and the social lives of infrastructure.

Paper proposals, *of no more than 300 words (1 double spaced page),* and a
two-page author?s CV showing current institutional affiliation with postal
and email addresses, should be sent via email attachment as pdf documents.
Applications must be sent in by *July 15, 2013*, and invitations to
participate will be sent by August 15, 2013. Applicants should send their
material to Sahana Ghosh (sahana.ghosh at yale.edu).

All selected participants will be provided a round-trip economy airfare to
Hong Kong, and up to six nights accommodation, as well as invitations to
the conference dinner and associated field trips. Only those able to stay
for the whole conference and field trips should apply; this would mean
arriving Sunday, June 8, 2014, and staying through Friday, June 13, 2014.

This conference follows *Urban Ecologies in Asia*, which convened in Hong
Kong in 2010 with the support of the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities
and Social Sciences. A detailed conference description and program 
from *Urban Ecologies in Asia* are posted here:
http://www.ihss.hku.hk/conference/index.html.

The resulting book may be found at:

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-988-8139-76-7/ecologies-of-urbanism-in-india

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Sahana Ghosh
Yale University
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