Programme
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Programme Summary |
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Wednesday 14th September |
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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
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Thursday 15th September |
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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
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Friday 16th September |
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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) |
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Wednesday 14th September (5.00pm onwards)
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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
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Thursday 15th September (9.00am – 10.45am)
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Mobility, diverse cities and migration I Chair: Vassilis Arapoglou (Room “Epicurus”)
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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
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Europe in the world and the political economy of European integration Chair: Adrian Smith (Room “Socrates”)
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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
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Industrial and regional creativity and change Chair: Nick Henry (Room “Pythagoras”)
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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
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Thursday 15th September (11.15am – 1.00pm)
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Border cities/regions and development Chair: Adrian Smith (Room “Epicurus”)
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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
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Politics of urban change and grassroots movements Chair: Vassilis Arapoglou (Room “Socrates”)
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Alexandra Oanca (Central European University,
Hungary) 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
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Alternative and solidarity economies Chair: Mike Bradshaw (Room “Pythagoras”)
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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
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Thursday 15th September (2.15pm – 4.00pm)
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Mobility, diverse cities and migration II Chair: Stefan Bouzarovski (Room “Epicurus”)
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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
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Urban and regional peripherality and interactions between urban and rural spaces I Chair: Mireia Baylina (Room “Socrates”)
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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 |
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Austerity urbanism/regionalism I Chair: Mike Raco (Room “Epicurus”)
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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
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Energy transitions, energy poverty and affordability in European cities and regions Chair: Mike Bradshaw (Room “Socrates”)
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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 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
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City/place transformations: experiences of poverty and inequality Chair: Judit Timar (Room “Pythagoras”)
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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
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Friday 16th September (11.15am – 1.00pm)
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Austerity urbanism/regionalism II Chair: Diane Perrons (Room “Epicurus”)
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Joe Painter, Paul Langley, Sue Lewis, Colin McFarlane
and Antonis Vradis (University of Durham, UK)
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 |
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Urban and regional peripherality and interactions between urban and rural spaces II Chair: Tassilo Herrschel (Room “Socrates”)
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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
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New forms of urban residential and employment segregation Chair: Mike Raco (Room “Pythagoras”)
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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
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Friday 16th September (2.15pm – 4.00pm)
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Austerity urbanism/regionalism III Chair: Nick Henry (Room “Epicurus”)
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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
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Gender, poverty and inequality in European cities and regions Chair: Adrian Smith (Room “Socrates”)
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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
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Friday 16th September (4.30pm – 7.00pm) – Closing Plenary
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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
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