Call for Papers

You are invited to participate in an organized special session entitled 'Globalization and World Cities' at the:

96th Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Tuesday, 4th April - Saturday 8th April, 2000

Organizers

Dr Jonathan Beaverstock (J.V.Beaverstock@lboro.ac.uk)1
Dr Richard Smith (rgs10@le.ac.uk)2
Professor Peter Taylor (P.J.Taylor@lboro.ac.uk)1 

1 Department of Geography, University of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, LE11 3TU. 
2 Department of Geography, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, England, LE1 7RH. 

Researching world cities has been both exciting and fruitful ever since the seminal writings of Peter Hall, John Friedmann, Saskia Sassen, and most recently, Manuel Castells. But, at both a theoretical and empirical level, world cities still remain contested and under-researched as contemporary globalization processes. This session serves to explore avenues for future research on globalization and world cities as we enter the 21st Century.

Possible themes may include:

• Theorising globalization and world cities
• World city as process
• Contesting world cities
• World cities and relational studies
• World cities as international financial centres
• World cities and post-Fordism
• World cities and the nation-state
• World city regions
• World cities, civil boosterism and place promotion
• Social polarization
• Transportation, telecommunications and Information technology
• Consumption and cultural economy
• Immigration and labour market restructuring
• Urban hierarchies
• African, Latin American and Islamic world cities

You are welcome to contact one of the organizers prior to the submission of an abstract. Please submit an abstract of not more than 250 words by August 1st 1999 to Richard Smith (rgs10@le.ac.uk).