Call for Applications: The 9th East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography

9th EARCAG (East Asian Regional Conference on Alternative Geography)
“For Spatial Justice: Rethinking Socio-spatial Issues from East Asian Perspectives”

  • Date: 10 (Mon) – 13 (Thurs) December, 2018
  • Venue: Daegu University (10 December) and Daegu Exco (11-13 December), South Korea
 Submission of Abstracts
If you are interested in participating in this conference, please send an abstract (500 words max) to earcag.9th.korea@gmail.com by 31 July, 2018. The organizing committee will review the abstracts and contact you with the result by 31 August, 2018.

Potential session topics include but are not limited to:

  • Division, conflict and peace in East Asia
  • Embedded developmentalism and spatial justice in post-developmental-state society; post-territorial dynamics of spatial justice
  • Right to the cities and urban commons
  • Geography of precarity; increasing precarity and the precariat’s spatial dynamics and precarious spaces
  • Gender, Space and Justice; Gendered migration within and from East Asia
  • Alternative spaces for spatial justice; critical geopolitics for spatial justice
  • Mobilities as threats to and possibilities for spatial justice; Mobilities promoted and mobilized under the post-developmental state
  • Challenge of climate change and risk governance in East Asia
  • Environmental justice; critical geography for nature and the environment
  • Technology development and spatial justice in a smart era
  • Urban alienation and just city in East Asia
  • Uneven regional development and spatial justice
  • Equity issues in cities and regions under Neo-liberalism; Planning and policy issues for social justice from East Asian perspective
  • Transnational migration, multiculturalism, and global justice
Conference Theme & Call for Paper: http://earcag2018.wordpress.com/9thearcag/