[ecrea] Call for papers Smart, Sustainable and Just and DPR13 Conference

** On behalf of Blewitt, John<(J.D.BLEWITT /at/ aston.ac.uk)<mailto:(J.D.BLEWITT /at/ aston.ac.uk)>>  **

I am taking the liberty of sending you information about a call for papers for both a SI issue of The International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development and a conference with a symposia on the Right to the City that may be of interest to MeCCSA members. I would be grateful if you could pass on the information. I think those MeCCSA member with an interest in new media and urban spaces will be particularly interested.

A Call for Papers has recently been published regards a Special Issue of the International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development. The title of the call is: Smart, Sustainable and Just: Higher Education and the Remaking of the Right to the City.  Further details may be found at:http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers-special/international-journal-social-ecology-sustainable/1174

The Discourse Power and Resistance (DPR13) conference will be held at the Greenwich University between 9-11 April 2013. Conference title is Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion (http://dprconference.com/)

A widespread abuse of power is to organise the social world into groups that are included and others that are excluded, using the discourse of the powerful group, like subtly barbed wire, to distinguish the insiders from the outsiders on the grounds of gender, ethnicity, age, wealth, sexuality, class and other grouping. Communities may then disintegrate. The excluded members may seek to be admitted to the privileged group by learning and adopting its discourse; or they may resist this assimilation and celebrate their difference in defiant counter-cultures of their own.

Abstracts for papers, workshops, posters, performance and exhibition work to contribute to the conference are now being invited. Conference streams will be announced soon but a number of projects and symposia proposals are already under way:http://dprconference.com/conference/dpr-13/projects-and-symposia.

John
Dr John Blewitt
Co-Director MSc Social Responsibility and Sustainability
Aston Business School
Aston University
Aston Triangle
Birmingham
B4 7ET
United Kingdom

Tel +44(0)121 204 4284
Mob 07733 179820


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