Date and location: 27th - 28th November, 2014, Holiday Inn London Bloomsbury, UK
Abstract submission date: 18th August 2014
Full paper submission date: 6th October 2014
This conference provides a platform on which to address the new economic order and its spatial manifestations. The world has seen a series of shifts in socio-economic relations over the past decade, which has picked up pace since the global financial crisis of 2008, particularly in relation to the complex inter-related processes of industrialisation, urbanisation, and regional and local development. Is the mediation between economic logic and political institutions leading to new patterns of economic activity at a local, regional, national and global level?
This Regional Studies Association Winter Conference 2014 presents a timely opportunity to discuss these issues, to establish the need and nature of future research imperatives, and to address the concerns and challenges confronting policymakers and practitioners. The conference organisers are keen to attract papers and sessions which address a broad research and policy agenda, including contributions from any discipline which can offer relevant insights associated with the remaking of the world space economy and its shaping of our cities and regions. Papers which are collaborative, international or multi-disciplinary are especially welcome:
- Modelling and theorising the space economy: urban renewal and regional growth;
- New approaches to agglomeration and the clustering of economic life;
- The impacts of devolution and constitutional change on economic policy, and vice versa;
- Cities, Regions, or City-Regions: searching for scalar and institutional fixes;
- Post-suburbia and governance of metropolitan areas;
- New industrial spaces of the 21st Century and the future of old industrial regions;
- EU and OECD agendas for Smart, Inclusive, and Sustainable Economies;
- The future of work and work-welfare regimes: labour market policy, flexibility, resilience or flexploitations?;
- Creative city-regions and urban leadership;
- The politics and policies of urban and regional austerity;
- The lived experience of urban and rural change in times of austerity;
- Social enterprise, the third sector, and alternative economic geographies;
- Low Carbon Futures: Green deals and beyond;
- Methodological challenges for studying crisis, austerity, and the space economy.
More information on registration, schedule and conference fee is available on Regional Studies Associations’ web page. If tweeting about this event please use #RSAWINTER2014
Participation in the Regional Studies Association is a part of "Support For Civic Participation in Sustainable Cooperation" project. The project is financially supported by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
