Organizing Committee:
· Bozhkov Oleg Borisovich – senior researcher, head of the Fund of Biographical, sociological Institute, Chairman of the organizing Committee
· Zaporozhets Oksana Nikolaevna – Cand. SOC. Sciences, leading researcher, Russian state them. Poletaev V. A., NRU "HSE"
· Nenko Alexandra Evgenievna – Cand. SOC. Sciences, associate Professor at ITMO University, head of the project "Arts4City"
· Pachenkov Oleg Vyacheslavovich – candidate. SOC. D., Director of the Center for applied studies
· Protasenko Tatyana Zakharovna - senior researcher, sociological Institute
· Skvortsov Nikolay Generowicz – Doc. pilot. Sciences, Professor, Dean of the faculty of sociology
· Sezneva Olga V. – PhD, Professor, Department of political science and sociology
· Tikanova Elena V. – Cand. SOC. Sciences, senior researcher, head of the Center for urban studies, sociological Institute, Board member SAVED
· Khokhlova, Anisya Mikhailovna – candidate. SOC. Sciences, associate Professor, supervisor of master profile "Studies in European Societies", faculty of sociology
Urban sociology, urban studies, and urban studies (urban studies) is the most actively developing research areas in contemporary sociological knowledge. The growth of suburbanization and the merger of large cities in the Metropolitan area and the metropolis, the globalization of urban space and the emergence of global cities, strengthening communication, transport and other threads, the commercialization and commodification of modern cities, as well as reciprocal processes in the form of local resistance, lead to the transformation of urban space and the actualization of activities of urban communities. New trends in the development of cities lead to the emergence of new urban technologies, housing and mobility provoke and stimulate consumption of residents, problematizing issues related to social order and security in public spaces, provoking the search for new urban images and develops a repertoire of informal urban practices.
Thematic areas:
1. Social groups and communities. The social dimension of inequality in urban space
2. Urban policy and urban Economics
3. The transformation of urban public spaces and quasipublic
4. New trends of housing policy and residential mobility
5. Social order and security in urban space
6. Creative industries and cultural consumption in a big city
7. The specificity of urban life, including informal urban practices
8. The potential STS-approach to research cities
9. Art-the methods of development of the urban environment
To participate in the IX Readings you have to make an application until March 15, 2017 (Boshkov Oleg Borisovich, email address: olegbozh@gmail.com)
Application for participation in the conference must contain the name and a brief summary of the report up to 300 words, indicating one of the suggested thematic areas of the conference, information about the speaker (s): name, position, academic degree, rank, main place of work, email address and contact telephone number.
The organizing Committee reserves the right of selection of submitted applications.
Following the conference planned publication of the conference materials registration in RSCI.
The registration fee will be charged. Travel, accommodation and catering are at the expense of the participants or the sending party.
Information about the conference venue will be available soon.
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