European Urban &
Regional Studies

Europe, Crisis and Uneven Development

14 - 17 September, 2016 | Chania, Crete, Greece | Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (CIHEAM - MAICh)

Programme

Programme Summary

 

Wednesday 14th September

 

3.00pm onwards           Arrival and Registration

 

5:00pm – 5.15pm          Welcome (‘Aristotle’ conference hall)

                                    Adrian Smith (Editor in Chief, EURS) & Vassilis Arapoglou (Local Organizer, EURS)

 

5:15pm- 7.45pm           Opening Plenary:

 

                                    Luiza Bialasiewicz (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

                                    The urban border: translating difference in the European city

 

                                    Kevin Ward (University of Manchester, UK)

                                    Policy mobilities, politics and place: the making of urban futures

                       

7:45pm                         Drinks/food Reception

 

 

Thursday 15th September

 

9.00am – 10.45am               Parallel Sessions

10.45am – 11.15am            Tea/Coffee Break

11.15am – 1.00pm              Parallel Sessions

1.00pm – 2.00pm                Lunch

2.15pm – 4.00pm                Parallel Sessions

4.00pm – 4.30pm                Tea/Coffee Break

4.30pm – 5.30pm                Editors’ meeting (EURS editors and editorial board members only)

8:00pm                         Dinner (Fish Tavern ‘Thalassino Ageri’ at Chania- Tabakaria) – dinner and return bus           

                                    travel will be provided for those who included this in their conference fee package         

 

 

Friday 16th September

 

9.00am – 10.45am               Parallel Sessions

10.45am – 11.15am            Tea/Coffee Break

11.15am – 1.00pm              Parallel Sessions

1.00pm – 2.00pm                Lunch

2.15pm – 4.00pm                Parallel Sessions

4.00pm – 4.30 pm               Tea/Coffee Break

 

4.30pm – 7.00pm                Closing Plenary (‘Aristotle’ conference hall):

 

                                    Margit Mayer (Free University Berlin, Germany)

                                    Crisis, migration, movement: the European city a site of refuge or resistance

 

                                    Thomas Maloutas (Harokopio University, Greece)

                                           Contextual diversity and urban social change

 

8.00pm             Final Conference Dinner (Méditerranée: MAICH restaurant)

 

 

 


 

 

Wednesday 14th September (5.00pm onwards)

 

 

5.00pm                         Welcome - Adrian Smith (Editor in Chief, EURS) and Vassilis Arapoglou (Local Organizer, Editor, EURS) (Aristotle conference hall)

 

 

5:15pm- 7.45pm           Opening Plenary

 

                                    Luiza Bialasiewicz (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

                                    The urban border: translating difference in the European city

 

                                    Kevin Ward (University of Manchester, UK)

                                    Policy mobilities, politics and place: the making of urban futures

 

                      

7:45pm                         Drinks/food Reception

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Thursday 15th September (9.00am – 10.45am)

 

 

Mobility, diverse cities and migration I

Chair: Vassilis Arapoglou  (Room “Epicurus”)

 

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

Stefania Animento (University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy)

Internal Migration and Uneven Development in the EU: A Study Based On The Narratives of Young Italians Living in Berlin

 

Stephen Syrett and Janroj Keles (Middlesex University, UK)

Transnational diaspora linkages and regional economic development: the role of politicised ethnic entrepreneurship

 

Anna Micheli, Elena Katseniou and Christy Petropoulou (University of the Aegean, Greece)

Commons, public urban space and the perception about refugees.  The case of Mytilene

 

 

Europe in the world and the political economy of European integration

Chair: Adrian Smith (Room “Socrates”)

 

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

 

Mirela Barbu, Liam Campling and Adrian Smith (Queen Mary University of London, UK) & James Harrison and Ben Richardson (University of Warwick, UK)

Towards Responsible Global Trade? Global Value Chains and Labour Standards in the European Union’s Free Trade Agreements

 

 Michael Lischka (University of Bremen, Germany)

The relationship between crises and network dynamics of intergovernmental interdependencies in the EU28

 

Gregory Schwartz, (University of Bristol, UK)

Labour markets in the wake of Ukraine’s association with the EU: The political economy of a combined and uneven union

 

 

Industrial and regional creativity and change

Chair: Nick Henry (Room “Pythagoras”)

 

 

 

 

3

 

 

 

 

Tassilo Herrschel (University of Westminster, UK)

The need for ‘smart moves’ between metropolitan ‘new’ space and ‘old’ state territory. Challenges of metropolitanised regionalism in the Øresund

 

Evert Meijers and Rodrigo Cardoso (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Contrasts between first-tier and second-tier cities in Europe: a functional perspective

 

Jamie Kesten and Tatiana Moreira de Souza (University College London, UK)

Regeneration for whom? The impact of creative class urbanism on diverse local businesses

 

 

 

 


 

Thursday 15th September (11.15am – 1.00pm)

 

 

Border cities/regions and development

Chair: Adrian Smith (Room “Epicurus”)

 

 

 

4

 

Cigdem Varol and Emrah Soylemez (Gazi University, Turkey)

The hidden actors of regional and local networks at Turkish and EU border region

 

William Kutz (University of Manchester, UK)

Geo-economic municipalization: New strategies of statecraft in the European Union

 

Christian Lamour (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research)

20 minutes for the securitisation of the French border?  The urban mediatisation of a European crisis

 

Pablo Antonio Fernàndez Sànchez (University of Seville, Spain)

The control of the European Borders at the sea, a dilemma between human rights

 

 

 

Politics of urban change and grassroots movements

Chair: Vassilis Arapoglou (Room “Socrates”)

 

 

 

 

 

5

 

Alexandra Oanca (Central European University, Hungary)
The city is not for sale: emotions, activism and the critique of mega-events

Aritz Tutor Anton (Universitat de Autonoma, Barcelona, Spain)

Squatting as a resistance practice in Barcelona

 

Dimitris Pettas (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) and Maria Daskalaki (Kingston University, UK)

What happened to the squares’ movement? The Aganaktismenoi movement in Greece and the evolution of horizontal urban initiatives

 

 

Alternative and solidarity economies

Chair: Mike Bradshaw (Room “Pythagoras”)

 

 

 

 

6

 

 

Stefania Kalogeraki, Maria Kousis and Maria Mexi (University of Crete, Greece)

Greeks’ volunteerism in times of crisis

 

Darja Reuschke (University of Southampton, UK)

Home-based self-employment and its role in economic recovery across UK regions

 

Anders Lund Hansen (Lund University, Sweden)

Something political in the air: between the human right city and the right to the city

 

 

 

 

 

 


Thursday 15th September (2.15pm – 4.00pm)

 

 

Mobility, diverse cities  and migration II

Chair: Stefan Bouzarovski (Room “Epicurus”)

 

 

 

 

7

 

 

 

 

Ivana Přidalová, Martin Ouředníček (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)

Differential impact of economic crisis on various groups of international migrants in Prague

 

Maja de Neergaard, Lasse Koefoed  and Kirsten Simonsen (Roskilde University, Denmark)

Purpose-built mosques in Copenhagen: on visibility, materiality and cultural dispute

 

Mike Raco (University College London, UK)

Living with diversity and the rise of a cosmopolitan urban consciousness: lessons from London

 

 

Urban and regional peripherality and interactions between urban and rural spaces I

Chair: Mireia Baylina (Room “Socrates”)

 

 

 

 

8

 

 

 

 

Ilgvars Jansons (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)

Householding and peripheralisation in south-eastern Hungary

 

Judit Timar (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)

A changing role of the state in displacement

 

Jiří Nemeškal and Jana Jíchová (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)

Crime in Czech metropolitan and peripheral areas

 

 

 


 


Friday 16th September (9.00am – 10.45am)

 

 

Austerity urbanism/regionalism I

Chair: Mike Raco (Room “Epicurus”)

 

 

 

 

 

9

 

 

 

 

Christian Smigiel (University of Salzburg, Austria)

It’s a material world: Multiscalarity and relationalities of urban political strategies

 

David Beel and Martin Jones (University of Sheffield, UK) & Ian Rees Jones (Cardiff University, UK)

Local and city regional relations: regionalisation and civil society in a time of austerity

 

Ebru Ertugal (Baskent University, Turkey)

Towards place-based approaches to crisis and uneven development in Turkey’s regions?  An assessment of strategic regional plans

 

 

Energy transitions, energy poverty and affordability in European cities and regions

Chair: Mike Bradshaw (Room “Socrates”)

 

 

 

 

10

 

Michael John Laiho (Durham University, UK)

Tracing energy and climate change discourse through time and space, and back to the future in the EU’s Arctic policy

 
Harriet Thomson, Stefan Bouzarovski, Saska Petrova and Neil Simcock (University of Manchester, UK)

Quantifying energy poverty and affordability in Europe: an exploration of data and indicators

 

Neil Simcock, Stefan Bouzarovski, Saska Petrova and Harriet Thomson (University of Manchester, UK)

Experiences of domestic energy deprivation: a qualitative study in Central and Eastern Europe

 

Sorin Cebotari, Marius Cristea, and Ciprian Moldovan (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)

Renewable energy’s impact on rural community development

 

 

 

City/place transformations: experiences of poverty and inequality

Chair: Judit Timar (Room “Pythagoras”)

 

 

 

 

11

 

 

 

 

Olga Lafazani (ERC Researcher, GRECO Project)

Spatialities and temporalities of the crisis

 

Svenja Timmins (University of Sheffield, UK)

A Comparative Youth Perspective on Territorial Stigma

 

Giovanni Guidetti (University of Bologna, Italy) and Giulio Pedrini (University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy)

Multi-dimensional inequality in European Cities

 

 

 

 

 

 



Friday 16th September (11.15am – 1.00pm)

 

 

Austerity urbanism/regionalism II

Chair: Diane Perrons (Room “Epicurus”)

 

 

 

 

12

 

 

 

 

Joe Painter, Paul Langley, Sue Lewis, Colin McFarlane and Antonis Vradis (University of Durham, UK)
Urban social innovation in austerity”

 

Nick Henry, Carlos Ferreira and Jennifer Ferreira (Coventry University, UK)

The ‘rise’ of social investment: social financialisation in the face of austerity?

 

Katja Thiele & Britta Klagge (Universität Bonn, Germany)

Selling municipally-owned land and urban austerity politics: the case of Berlin

 

Urban and regional peripherality and interactions between urban and rural spaces II

Chair: Tassilo Herrschel (Room “Socrates”)

 

 

 

 

 

13

 

 

 

Aura Moldovan (Babes-Bolyai Universtity, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

Territorial Mobility and Socio-Spatial Polarization in Romania

 

Erika Nagy and Gabor Nagy (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Bekescsaba, Hungary)

Fixing marginality? Changing  state agency and the rise of new dependencies on the eastern European peripheries after the crisis

 

Gabor Velkey (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Bekescsaba, Hungary)

School segregation in certain rural areas of the periphery in view of the crises (economic and political) and the reaction thereto

 

 

New forms of urban residential and employment segregation

Chair: Mike Raco (Room “Pythagoras”)

 

 

 

 

 

14

 

 

 

Anna Grzegorczyk (University of Warsaw, Poland)

Residential segregation in Warsaw Metropolitan Area and in the city in the context of changing housing policy

 

Peter Svoboda (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)

Changes of work localization in the Prague metropolitan region 1991-2011

 

Simone Scarpa (Linköping University, Sweden)

The urban consequences of austerity politics: income inequality and economic residential segregation in Stockholm Metropolitan area before and after the global financial crisis

 

 

 

 

 


 

Friday 16th September (2.15pm – 4.00pm)

 

 

Austerity urbanism/regionalism III

Chair: Nick Henry (Room “Epicurus”)

 

 

 

 

 

15

 

 

 

 

Bernd Belina (Goethe University, Germany) and Sami Mosio (University of Helsinki, Finland)

The consolidation of austerity politics in Europe: an inquiry into strategic selectives and political geographies

 

Ioannis Chorianopoulos and Naya Tselepi (University of the Aegean, Greece) and Jonathan S. Davies (De Montfort University, UK)

Austerity urbanism: Rescaling and collaborative governance policies in Athens

 

David Etherington (Middlesex University, UK) and David Beel & Martin Jones (University of Sheffield, UK)

Making city region devolution work? Skills, employment and labour market inequalities

 

 

Gender, poverty and inequality in European cities and regions

Chair: Adrian Smith (Room “Socrates”)

 

 

 

 

16

 

 

Diane Perrons and Ania Plomien (London School of Economics, UK)

Gender, austerity and alternatives in post-crisis Europe: London and Warsaw

 

Mireia Baylina and Maria Dolors Garcia Ramon (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain), Isabel Salamaña (Universitat de Girona, Spain),  Ana María Porto  and Montserrat Villarino(Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

Gender, rurality and everyday (im)mobilities in Spain

 

Hyerim Yoon and David Saurí (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)

An urban dead zone - the story of resource poverty in occupied housing in Barcelona

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday 16th September (4.30pm – 7.00pm) – Closing Plenary

 

 

 

 

4.30pm – 7.00pm                 Closing Plenary (Aristotle conference hall):

 

                                    Margit Mayer (Free University Berlin, Germany)

                                    Crisis, migration, movement: the European city a site of refuge or resistance

 

                                    Thomas Maloutas (Harokopio University, Greece)

                                 Contextual diversity and urban social change

 

 

 

8.00pm             Final Conference Dinner