2005 Business Meeting and Reception

The business meeting and reception are on FRIDAY, the 2nd.  The Business meeting begins at 5:30 at the Omni Shoreham, and the reception will be held directly afterward.  This year the reception is being co-sponsored by the Urban Institute and Fannie Mae Foundation to welcome members of the Urban Section to Washington. We appreciate their sponsorship (which will enable us to have a nice array of choices), and hope that you and many other colleagues will join us.

Karen Mossberger
Secretary-Treasurer

Comparative Urban Politics Panel 1

Friday, Sep 2, 8:00 AM  

 

Title: “Cities and Globalization: the Politics of Competition”

 

Chair    Richard Stren, University of Toronto

 

Roundtable:

            Neil Brenner, New York University

Steven Erie, University of California,           San Diego

            Susan Fainstein (Columbia University)

 

 

Workshop on Divided Cities

 

Co-sponsored by

Comparative Urban Politics related group (APSA) and

Comparative Urban Studies Project (Wilson Center)

 

When:              Wednesday, August 31

 

Time:                9:30-5:30

 

Location:         

Comparative Urban Studies Project

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

5th Floor Conference Room

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

One Woodrow Wilson Plaza

1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW

Washington, DC 20004-3027

T 202/691-4000

 

Registration required: To register or for more information, please send an e-mail to  Ronald K. Vogel at ron.vogel@louisville.edu or call at (502) 852-3312.

 

Workshop Description:

 

Concentrated poverty, inter-racial or ethnic hostility and national conflict divide cities around the world.  In some cases, “animosity” is so great that groups do not “recognize the political and/or cultural sovereignty of the other” (Hepburn 2004, p. 2).  At the more violent end the spectrum are Belfast and Jerusalem which have experienced large scale casualties.  Toward the middle of the spectrum are Johannesburg and Bogota where deep ethnic or class divisions explode in periodic violence or endemic crime.  Still other cities, such as  Mostar and Sarajevo,  try to preserve a precarious stability in times of national crisis. And at the most pacific end of the spectrum we find Brussels and Montreal where the most serious crises have been successfully mediated.  In this workshop we explore

 

Divided and contested cities may also refract larger phenomena like globalization, terrorism, nationalism or religious upheaval.  These occurrences can be found in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.  They may also tell us something about the United States where poor, minorities, and immigrants occupy central cities while the middle and upper classes have fled to the suburbs.  The Los Angeles riots in 1992 and the Miami riots in 1980 illustrate these perils. Our comparative perspective highlights the alternative futures cities face.  Are the conflicts that are so prominent for divided or contested cities harbingers of an increasingly dangerous future or are they a transitional phenomenon?

 

Presentations by:

Scott Bollens (University of California, Irvine)

Robert Cameron (University of Cape Town)

A.C.Hepburn (University of Sunderland)

Marc Levine (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Blair Ruble (Wilson Center)

H.V. Savitch (University of Louisville)

Ronald K. Vogel (University of Louisville)

 

NOMINEES FOR OFFICERS IN THE URBAN POLITICS SECTION

The Urban Politics Organized Section Nominations Committee has proposed the following slate of officers for 2005-2006, to be voted on at our Business Meeting in Washington:

President-Elect
Wilbur Rich, Wellesley College,

Council
Lenneal Henderson, University of Baltimore
J. Edwin Benton, University of South Florida
Susan Baer, San Diego State
Regina Freer, Occidentail College
Lorraine Minnite, Barnard College
Sharon Austin, University of Florida