The RSA will have again a strong presence at this year's AAG with annual lectures for our journals Regional Studies and Area Development and Policy, eight Economic Geography sessions, several sessions organised by RSA members and an exhibition stand which is part of the Routledge stand.
So, see you in New Orleans!
REGIONAL STUDIES Regional Studies – Annual Lecture
From Dream to Nightmare: Shifting Regional Fortunes and the Growth of American Despair
Friday, 13th April 2018, 15:20-17:00 in Grand Ballroom E, Sheraton, 5th Floor
Presenter: Amy Glasmeier, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Introduction and Chair: Dieter Franz Kogler, University College Dublin, Ireland
Discussant: Christopher Fowler Pennsylvania State University, USA
A widely cited economic explanation for the 2016 U.S. presidential election centers on the pent-up frustration of households that lost ground in relative financial and social position visa vis their expectations and the position of others in a shifting economy. Alternative explanations for the decline in economic position include relative positional losses due to shifts of cultural power and relevance away from normative American values (in the eyes of Trump voters) to those of a globalized, urban, and educated elite that is out of touch with an ‘original’ culture. Another related consensual grievance evident among Trump voters is a sense of eroding racial superiority due to a relative change in economic position. A third perspective sees an end to the era of the American Dream upended by a worldview centered on progress, fairness, and optimism. A fourth view suggests geographic change resulting from the restructuring of society is leading away from notions of individuality toward group identity that allows and encourages people to self-sort into micro-cantons of like-minded individuals. These four perspectives are neither monolithic nor are they mutually exclusive as the American Dream was always for some, but never for everyone. Geographic context plays a critical role in explaining the relative importance of these differing worldviews and their resulting political consequences. Informed by public opinion studies, to trace the evolving geography of economic despair, we utilize multi-decadal census data in analyzing county-level voting patterns in response to regional economic performance. More details at https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/11808
AREA DEVELOPMENT AND POLICY – Annual Lecture
The Raggedy Edges of Globalizing Capitalism: Thinking through Jakarta
Friday, 13th April 2018, 17:20-19:00, Grand Ballroom E, Sheraton, 5th Floor
Presenter: Eric S. Sheppard, UCLA, USA
Chair: Weidong Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Discussants: Mike Dunford, University of Sussex, UK and Henry Yeung, National University of Singapore, Singapore
To address the limits to globalization and challenges faced by urbanization in the global south, this plenary session will invite Prof. Eric Sheppard from UCLA to deliver a themed talk on the raggedy edges of globalizing capitalism thinking through Jakarta. Since 2016, globalizing capitalism has lost its luster. The immediate impetus is grassroots opposition from white nationalist Americans and Europeans, dismissive of anti-neoliberal activism across the post-colony but now disenchanted with globalizing capitalism’s seemingly deleterious impact on their back yard. Yet globalizing capitalism’s inability to deliver on its promise of prosperity for all entrepreneurial people and places lies much deeper. Setting aside problems endemic to the logic of globalizing capitalism, Prof. Sheppard will focus on the compounding effects of its raggedy edges. Today, these include legacies of colonialism, racism and slavery, humans’ more-than-capitalist practices and contestations, global climate change and resource extraction, elite and grassroots informality, enclosures of the information commons, and the untrammeled spaces of financialization. He will explore how these edges shape social and environmental justice possibilities in Jakarta. For more details on this annual lecture: https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/11445
Area Development and Policy (ADP) was launched in 2016 and publishes original academic research examining the multi-scalar and geographically differentiated relationships between economic and political organization, ways of life and work and their context, as they shape regions, cities, rural areas and their inter-relationships. Geographically it concentrates on issues relating to the Greater BRICS and aims to publish research emerging from these countries as well from the developed world. ADP recognizes that the economic, political, cultural and geographical context plays a fundamental role in shaping development. ADP, therefore, recognizes that research should examine the role of diverse national and regional institutional configurations and values, and that theories should derive from the experiences of these countries and regions and not necessarily from theories derived from the possibly exceptional experiences of Northwest Europe and North America. ADP aims to expand common ground while accepting differences, improve mutual communication and increase cooperation and shared learning.
Along with standard Research Articles (8,000 words) and Review Articles (6,000 words), ADP also welcomes Research Notes (short articles presenting the results of original research and which briefly situates the research in relation to the existing empirical and theoretical literature) of up to 4,000 words, and Commentaries (short articles commenting in a significant way on, or supplementing arguments and evidence in, a Research Article or a Review Article) of up to 2,000 words. More on ADP at https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rard20/current
RSA RESEARCH NETWORK EVENT – RSA FinGeo Network
Real estate and finance were at the roots of the global economic crisis that started in 2007. States and their many institutions, including central banks and financial regulators, have also been seen as complicit to the crisis. Cities have recently entered a period of severe economic turbulence, with high levels of financial uncertainty as resources of governments as well as citizens and businesses have diminished. Future funding for urban development is likely to be increasingly limited due to the reform and re-regulation of financial markets and changing underlying financial-economic conditions of urban property markets.
The sessions are organised by Manuel Aalbers
Urban Geography Specialty Group, Economic Geography Specialty Group, Political Geography Specialty Group
Real Estate, Finance and Urban Development 1: Privatization and Public Real Estate
Tuesday 10th April 2018, 8:00 – 9:40, St. Charles, Marriott, 41st Floor
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/341
Real Estate, Finance and Urban Development 2: Financialization of Urban Development
Tuesday 10th April 2018, 10:00 – 11:40, St. Charles, Marriott, 41st Floor
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/10939
Real Estate, Finance and Urban Development 3: Financializing Transport and Planning
Tuesday 10th April 2018, 12:40 – 2:20, St. Charles, Marriott, 41st Floor
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/10944
Real Estate, Finance and Urban Development 4: Fictitious Commodities and Financial Tools
Tuesday 10th April 2018, 14:40 – 16:20, St. Charles, Marriott, 41st Floor
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/10953
Real Estate, Finance and Urban Development 5: Financialization of Housing
Tuesday 10th April 2018, 16:40 – 18:20, St. Charles, Marriott, 41st Floor
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/10957
Real Estate, Finance and Urban Development 7: Political Economy of Renting
Wednesday 11th April 2018, 10:00 – 11:40, Riverview I, Marriott, 41st Floor
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/10963
Real Estate, Finance and Urban Development 8: Investment Trusts and Funds
Wednesday 11th April 2018, 13:20 – 15:00, Riverview I, Marriott, 41st Floor
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/10965
Real Estate, Finance and Urban Development 9: Speculation
Wednesday 11th April 2018, 15:20 – 17:00, Riverview I, Marriott, 41st Floor
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/10968
ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY SESSIONS – Multi-scalar & multi-dimensional aspects of economic development
The series of “Economic Geography” special sessions features theoretical and empirical research papers under the heading ‘MULTI-SCALAR & MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ASPECTS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT’. The various sessions highlight such topics, including innovation space, networks, policy, economic development, knowledge creation, relatedness, specialization, institutions, trade, resilience, and regional growth, amongst others. The sessions are organised by Dieter Kogler, Jennifer Clark, and Peter Kedron.
Economic Geography I – The Transformation of Urban Economies & Multi-dimensional Aspects of Economic Development
Tuesday 10th April 2018, 8:00-9:40, Regent, Marriott, 4th Floor
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/11815
Economic Geography II – The Evolution of Knowledge Spaces in Regional and Global Economies
Tuesday 10th April 2018, 10:00-11:40, Regent, Marriott, 4th Floor
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/11826
Economic Geography III – Knowledge Production, Trade, Collaborations, Occupational Dynamics and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Tuesday 10th April 2018, 12:40-14:20, Regent, Marriott, 4th Floor
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/11826
Economic Geography IV- Regional Diversification and Resilience, Firms, Innovation and International Business
Tuesday 10th April 2018, 14:40-16:20, Regent, Marriott, 4th Floor
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/11828
Economic Geography V- Collaboration, Mobility and Changing Occupational Structures in Innovation Networks
Tuesday 10th April 2018, 16:40-18:20, Regent, Marriott, 4th Floor
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/11830
Economic Geography VI – Environmental Technologies and Regulation, Renewable Energy & Agricultural Production
Wednesday 11th April 2018, 8:00-9:40, Regent, Marriott, 4th Floor
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/11831
Economic Geography VII – Emerging Industries, Path Creation, Entrepreneurial Experimentation, Inequality and Polarization
Wednesday 11th April 2018, 10:00-11:40, Regent, Marriott, 4th Floor
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/11832
Economic Geography VIII – Agglomeration Economies, Collective Spatial Dynamics and Smart Specialization
Wednesday 11th April 2018, 13:20-15:00, Regent, Marriott, 4th Floor
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/11855
RSA MEMBERS' SESSIONS
Sustainable Coastal Transitions: Coastal Restoration, Remediation and (Re)Development
Tuesday, 10th April, 2018, 14:40 – 16:20, Borgne Room, Sheraton, 3rd Floor
Organisers: Marcello Graziano, Matthew Liesch
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/10930
Urban Geography Specialty Group, Regional Development and Planning Specialty Group
Urban hierarchies and the financial and economic crisis after 2008/2009: a relational perspective on the state of affairs (I)
Wednesday 11th April 2018, 08:00 – 09:40, Evergreen, Sheraton, 4th Floor
Organisers: Michael Bentlage, Stefan Lüthi, Alain Thierstein
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/57
Urban Geography Specialty Group, Transportation Geography Specialty Group, Media and Communication Geography Specialty Group
Network Analysis and Geography III: Elite and Corporate Networks
Wednesday 11th April 2018, 13:20 – 15:00, Evergreen, Sheraton, 4th Floor
Organisers: Michiel Van Meeteren, Justus Uitermark
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/11032
China Specialty Group, Asian Geography Specialty Group, Political Geography Specialty Group
China's Belt and Road Initiative: Views from the ground (I) – Mapping the BRI: Textual and discourse analysis of the new 'Silk Roads'
Wednesday 11th April 13.20 – 15:00 Bacchus, Marriott, 4th Floor
Organisers: Yang Yang, Alessandro Rippa, Galen Murton
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/481
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group, Latin America Specialty Group, Rural Geography Specialty Group
Agrobiodiversity in Conflict and Post-Conflict Landscapes: Paper Session
Wednesday 11th April 2018, 15:20 – 17:00, Mid-City, Sheraton, 8th Floor
Organisers: Megan Baumann, Gabriel Tamariz
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/449
Transportation Geography Specialty Group
Changing Technologies and Sustainability in Transportation
Wednesday 11th April 2018, 15:20 – 17:00, Oak Alley, Sheraton, 4th Floor
Organisers:Vanessa Guerra
Quantitative Methods, Urban Geography, Geographic Information Science and Systems
Predicting Neighbourhood Change in London with Random Forests
Thursday 12th April 2018, 08:00 – 09:40, Bayside A, Sheraton, 4th Floor
Authors: Jonathan Reades, Jordan de Souza, Elizabeth Sklar
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/abstracts-gallery/13368
Economic Geography Specialty Group
Services, Markets and Globalisation I
Thursday 12th April 2018, 08:00 – 09:40, Grand Ballroom B, Astor, 2nd Floor
Organisers: Andrew Jones, James Faulconbridge
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/10628
Economic Geography Specialty Group
Public Wealth of Cities and Regions? Session 1
Thursday 12th April 2018, 08:00 – 09:40, Napoleon C2, Sheraton 3rd Floor
Organiser: Peter O'Brien
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/11570
Economic Geography Specialty Group
‘Inclusive growth’ and ‘inclusive economies’ 2 – Challenges and Opportunities in the U.S. and UK
Thursday 12th April 2018, 14:00 – 15:40, Bayside B, Sheraton, 4th Floor
Organisers: Chris Benner, Andy Pike, Danny Mackinnon
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/11348
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group, Political Geography Specialty Group, Latin America Specialty Group
The Border Wall and Beyond: Political and Geopolitical Implications
Thursday 12th April 2018, 08:00 – 09:40, Studio 9, Marriott, 2nd Floor
Organisers: Margaret Wilder, Valente Soto-Cortes, Wendy Jepson
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/10743
Business Geography Student Paper Competition 2
Thursday 12th April 2018, 10:00 – 11:40, Bacchus, Marriott, 4th Floor
Organisers: Tony Hernandez
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/11810
Asian Geography Specialty Group, China Specialty Group, Political Geography Specialty Group
China's Belt and Road Initiative (VI): Local experiences and international implications of China's 'global integration'
Thursday 12th April 13.20 – 15:00 Regent, Marriott, 4th Floor
OrganisersGalen Murton, Tyler Harlan, Gustavo Oliveira
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/10684
Digital Geographies Specialty Group, Development Geographies Specialty Group, Socialist and Critical Geography Specialty Group
Revolutionary Methodologies Revisited
Thursday 12th April 2018, 15:20 – 17:00, Gallier B, Sheraton, 4th Floor
Organiser: Margath Walker
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/279
Relational approaches to cities in globalization
Thursday 12th April 2018, 15:20 – 17:00, Studio 8, Marriott, 2nd Floor
Organisers: Ben Derudder, James Faulconbridge, Michael Hoyler
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/10676
Relational approaches to cities in globalization
Thursday 12th April 2018, 17:20 – 19:00, Studio 8, Marriott, 2nd Floor
Organisers: Ben Derudder, James Faulconbridge, Michael Hoyler
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/10677
Gating communities: An open perspective on gated living in cities
Thursday 12th April 2018, 17:20 – 19:00, Galerie 6, Marriott, 2nd Floor
Organisers: Simone Pekelsma, Arnoud Lagendijk
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/11225
China Specialty GroupUrban and Regional Development in China IV
Thursday 12th April 2018, 17:20 – 19:00, Galerie 4, Marriott, 2nd Floor
Organisers: Xinyue Ye, Max Woodworth
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/12082
Energy and Environment Specialty Group
Small hydroelectric power (SHP) in policy and practice
Thursday 12th April 2018, 17:00 – 19:00, Poydras, Sheraton, 3rd Floor
Organisers: Thomas Ptak, Arica Crootof
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/11210
China Specialty Group
Writing and Publishing about China
Friday 13th April 15:20 – 17:00 Grand Ballroom D, Sheraton, 5th Floor
Organiser: Xiaobo Su
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/10621
Mapping remittances and development
A study of the Australian Seasonal Workers Programme through East Timorese workers
Friday 13th April 2018, 17;20 – 19:00, Estherwood, Sheraton, 4th Floor
Organiser: Annie Wu
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/abstracts-gallery/15269
Just Green Enough: A dialogue on gentrification and just sustainabilities
Saturday 14th April 08:00 – 09:40 Borgne Room, Sheraton, 3rd Floor
Trina Hamilton, Winifred Curran
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/11122
Regional Policy and Planning in Europe
Disparity as an instrument of regional policy in Ukraine
Saturday 14th April 2018, 08:00 – 09:40 Muses, Sheraton, 8th Floor
Organiser: Olga Shevchenko
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/12218
Urban Geography Specialty Group, Regional Development and Planning Specialty Group
Seeing Like a Region 1: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Saturday 14th April 2018, 10:00 – 11:40, Iris, Sheraton, 8th Floor
Organiser:Jean-Paul Addie
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/11140
Urban Geography Specialty Group, Regional Development and Planning Specialty Group
Seeing Like a Region 2: City- Regional Geopolitics
Saturday 14th April 2018, 14:00 -15:40, Iris, Sheraton, 8th Floor
Organiser: Jean-Paul Addie
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/445
Paper
Population Geography Methods
Saturday 14th April 14:00 -15:40 Balcony M, Marriott, 4th Floor
Organiser: Program Committee
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/12232
Urban Geography Specialty Group, Regional Development and Planning Specialty Group
Seeing Like a Region 3: Debates and Future Directions
Saturday 14th April 2018, 16:00 -17:40, Iris, Sheraton, 8th Floor
Organiser: Jean-Paul Addie
https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202018/sessions-gallery/444