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Date sent: 20 Jan 2005 Call for papers: Ordinary Spaces of Urban Development Conference of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers London 2005 Recent scholarship has criticised a tendency in urban geography to make analytical generalisations of 'non-western' urban forms (Robinson, 2002).¨This session aims to bring together scholars who are interested in thinking beyond such a parochialist urge and who stress the contingent and particular nature of these urban forms. This requires attention to the ways in which different social actors are engaged in 'Improvement' or 'developing others', and how these meanings are contested. These contingencies arise in a variety of spaces of urban development. For example: i) local power networks and the bargaining between them, social organisations, NGOs, campaigning groups, etc. That is, what Chatterjee has termed the subaltern negotiations of governmental categories in "political society" (2004). ii) Individuals involved in policy implementation, and the tensions that exist between them and the abstract ideals of development initiatives iii) The historical momentum of previous development/improvement programmes iv) The local geographies that must mediate the implementation of general programmes Contributors will seek to chart and explore the diverse geographies of urban development, and may address one or more of the following topics: - Questioning the role of individual authorship and intentionality within the implementation of urban development programmes. - Providing case studies that highlight the effort that goes into urban planning at the local level and the vocabularies and techniques used by city dwellers to negotiate with policy makers. - Historical investigations of colonial or early developmental programmes that may have contemporary resonances. Please send a proposal of between 300 and 500 words to both Steve and Colin. Many thanks Dr Stephen Legg Department of Geography University of Cambridge Email: sil21@cam.ac.uk Dr Colin McFarlane, Department of Geography, Open University Email: C.McFarlane@open.ac.uk
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