REMINDER
RC 43 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Housing Assets,
Housing People
Glasgow September 1 – 4, 2009
RC43 of the International Sociological Association and the Department of Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow are pleased to invite participation in their international housing research conference to be held in Glasgow from 1-4 September 2009.
Further Information
Professor Kenneth Gibb
Conference Chair
Head of Department of Urban Studies
University of Glasgow
Tel: +44 (0)141 330 6891
email: k.gibb@lbss.gla.ac.uk
Conference announcement, click here
RC43 2009 Housing Conference website:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/events/housing/
Abstracts are welcome on theoretical, empirical and applied housing research but are particularly welcomed from a sociological or social sciences perspective (broadly and not in any way exhaustive: geography, political science, public policy, social policy, economics, finance, management & business, planning, anthropological, real estate and behavioural science).
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Call for Papers:
XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology,
11 - 17 July, 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden
December 8, 2009 deadline for
submission of abstracts
to Dennis Keating w.keating@csuohio.edu
for RC43 sessions on the theme
"Housing Tenures: Alternatives and Issues"
Session 1: Tenure Mix: A Feasible Policy
Session 2: Social Housing: Status and Prospects
Session 3: Preserving Rental Housing
Session 4: Gentrification: Conversion of Rental Housing to Ownership
Session 5: Management of Public Housing by Private Organizations
Session 6: Promotion of Home Ownership: Promise and Pitfalls
Session 7: Emergency Shelter/Transitional Housing/Self-help Housing
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The research committee on Housing and the Built Environment is an international association founded in 1978 to provide a forum for promoting research and communication among housing researchers.
- the international organization for housing and built environment researchers
- the global link for researchers from all disciplines
- the networking link among and between researchers, policy analysts and NGO staff
- the most recent RC43 conference brought together 350 researchers, policy analysts and NGO actors from 40 countries for 4 days in Toronto
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For a list of papers presented at the
ISA World Congress, RC43 Sessions
Durban, July 2006, click here |
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Message from the new President of RC43
I have the honour to be selected as President of RC43, succeeding Willem Van Vliet. On behalf of its members, I want to thank Willem for all his past work on behalf of RC43.
Agreeing to continue to serve another term as members of the RC43 board are:
Michael Bounds (Australia),
Flavio de Souza (Brazil),
David Hulchanski (Canada),
Ted Koebel (USA),
Mara Sidney (USA), and
Janet Smith (USA).
Ken Gibb (UK) has agreed to join the board. Wim Blauw (Netherlands) and Alan Murie (UK) have stepped down; thanks to them for their past service.
Thanks also to Anirban Pal for editing Housing Notes and to David Hulchanski for maintaining the RC43 website.
My immediate concern is to expand RC43's membership. Please join me in recruiting your colleagues who have an interest in housing and the built environment. I am also looking at the possibilities for a future RC43 conference. I hope to be able to see many of you at future conferences. In the meantime, if you have any suggestions for RC43 activities, please contact me: dennis@urban.csuohio.edu
Dennis Keating
Levin College of Urban Affairs
Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
December 2006
The Research Committee had its origins thirty years ago in sessions held at the Uppsala Congress in 1974 and has organized sessions on housing-related topics at each subsequent World Congress of Sociology. In addition, it conducts biennial international conferences and also has sponsored a number of smaller regional meetings. Past venues include Amsterdam, Paris, Hamburg, Prague, Montreal, Beijing, Nairobi, Budapest, and Alexandria (USA).
Members come from an array of disciplines including sociology, geography, political science, economics, planning and public policy. RC43 is not an association of sociologists but a multi-disciplinary group of researchers with a focus on housing and the built environment. The topics of housing and the built environment do not belong to any one discipline.
Membership in RC43 is global, covering every continent and more than 30 countries. Contacts between group members have led to mutual visits, guest lectures, and collaboration in research and practice.
Given its long history and excellent reputation, the International Sociological Association serves as an appropriate home for scholars focused on the many aspects of housing and the built environment.
The committee on Housing and the Built Environment became a formal Research Committee of the ISA in 1990.
The objectives of RC43 are:
To create an international community among scholars in the field of housing and the built environment;
To promote the development of social science theory and research on housing and the built environment;
To contribute to informed decisions regarding intervention in and invention of housing and the built environments supportive of human needs.
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