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THE THEME - ‘Being at home in the housing market’:
In
contemporary societies, the meaning and function of the built
environment has been transformed by the intensification and growing
volatility of capital accumulation in housing and real estate. With
sustained housing commodification in context of declining economic
stability, most households have become ever more sensitive to the
status of their homes as exchange goods and consider their respective
housing market positions as central to their chances of security or
future prosperity.
This
conference explores the dynamic interaction between homes and (housing)
markets over time and across different socio-economic contexts. There
are various ways of thinking about the idea of ‘being at home’ in this
regard. First are the connections between homes as places, spaces and
objects of family and social life, as well as housing commodities that
circulate on, and are subject to, fickle and dispassionate markets.
Second is the significance of the shift from pre- to post-crisis
conditions and how the housing market has been experienced in different
cities, regions and countries. In Europe and North America, for
example, this is a distinction that not only marks out a fundamental
economic reorientation but also cultural, socio-political and even
family and generational transitions. In Latin America and East Asia by
contrast, housing has not been so interwoven with recent global
economic crises, albeit with housing commodification still deeply
embedded with social change.
KEYNOTE AND
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Raquel
Rolnik, UN Special Rapporteur on Housing, University of
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Ray
Forrest, City University of Hong Kong
Manuel
Aalbers, Leuven University, Belgium
Susan
J. Smith, Cambridge University, UK
Fulong
Wu, Bartlett School, University College London, UK
Ben
Huat Chua, National University of Singapore
Edward
G. Goetz, University of Minnesota, USA
Seong-Kyu
Ha, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea
THE CALL
The RC43 encourages cross-disciplinary debate and welcomes housing
research papers from all social science disciplines. We invite both
panel sessions proposals and individual abstracts related to the
following sub-themes:
- The social and cultural implications of housing markets
- The political economy of housing and home
- Housing policy responses and the crisis
- Comparative contexts: diversity, variety and/or convergence
- Housing, policy and society
- Family, housing, and (inter)generational issues
- Citizenship, ex/inclusion and participation
- The structural crises of housing markets
SCHEDULE
January
19th 2013 -
Deadline for abstracts and panel session proposals
January 31st 2013 -
Confirmation of acceptance/Registration opens
May
18th 2013 - End of 'early bird' registration prices
June
26th 2013 - Submission of full paper
July
8th 2013 - PhD Student Pre-Conference
July
9th 2013 - Urban China Seminar
July
10th to 12th 2013 –
RC43 Conference
Abstract submissions and other inquiries may be sent to:
RC43-2013-fmg@uva.nl
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.
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the international organization for housing and built environment
researchers
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the global link for researchers from all disciplines
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the networking link among and between researchers, policy analysts and
NGO staff
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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
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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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University of Toronto's Centre for Urban and Community Studies, host of
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