438 - Section on Community and Urban Sociology. Questioning the City: New Directions in Urban Theory

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Sociologists have long taken the forms, processes, and scales of urbanism associated with 19th and early 20th century industrial cities as foundational for urban scholarship and thought. In recent decades, these inherited frameworks have struggled to account for emerging modes of urban restructuring —for instance, the growth of “megaregions” and “megacities” in the global North and South; political and demographic responses to climate change; and exurban/trans-urban patterns of place/landscape consumption, economic/infrastructural development, and political subjectivities. This panel presents new research on topics that illustrate these challenges to traditional categories and modes of urban inquiry, aiming to put them in conversation in theoretically productive ways.

Sub Unit

• Section on Community and Urban Sociology / Questioning the City: New Directions in Urban Theory

Presider

• Hillary Angelo, University of California - Santa Cruz

Individual Presentations

• Claiming the "Right to the City" Beyond the City: The Role of Agrarian Social Movements - Angela Serrano Zapata, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Consuming Abu Dhabi - Harvey L. Molotch, New York University

• Eco-Professionals, Gentrification, and the Contradictions of the Climate Friendly City - Jennifer Rice, University of Georgia; Daniel Aldana Cohen, University of Pennsylvania; Joshua Long, Southwestern University; Jason Jurevich, Portland State University


• Manhattan's Koreatown as a Transclave: The Emergence of the New Ethnic Enclave in a Global City - Jinwon Kim, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Discussant

• Leonard Nevarez, Vassar College