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News from EURA-JUNIUS
about
Junior Network for International Urban Studies
JUNIUS
(Junior Network for International Urban Studies) is an informal
network aiming to contribute to the ongoing urban studies on
particularly European contexts. It is established as an initiative
of junior scholars on July 14th, 2005 by the participants
of the Xth EUROLOC Summer University on Leadership and Local
Democracy that took place between July 4th and 15th,
2005 in Budapest.
click for the rest...
Post-Warsaw
Update
Hi all,
After a
fruit- and beer-full EURA congress, we are back at our homes (or
almost). I imagine that it has been really a great experience for
all the members of JUNIUS. In fact, we were quite a number: Tommaso,
Lea, Chiara, me as paper givers, Marta as both a paper giver and a
co-organiser of the event and Katarzyna as a hooligan shield :) last
but not the least of course Pawel, our honorary leader, as the
everything of the event...
Apart from the scientific richness of the conference, we also
enjoyed the event as a means for advancing the activities of the
JUNIUS. We had the opportunity to discuss what and how we can do
things within JUNIUS and the reactions were more than encouraging.
We could discuss with Hubert, Robin and Pawel the future of JUNIUS.
There are quite a number of ideas that came up during these
conversations.
The first
and perhaps the most important development is that EURA has very
kindly invited one member of JUNIUS to its executive committee and I
was elected on the board during the business meeting that took place
yesterday. So, I will represent Junius in the EURA board and try to
facilitate -with Pawel- the relations in between and the activities
in the future.
There were a
quite number of ideas for future activities.
First of all, we thought about organising a paper-prize among junior
researchers; so the PhD candidates will be invited to submit a paper
and the winning paper will be either published or presented in the
upcoming EURA conference in Glascow. The details are not determined
yet and surely concluded after discussing it among us.
Secondly, we plan to organise a Junior workshop or seminar at
Glascow. We first thought about proposing an entire panel in the
event; than we realized that it is indeed not a good idea to suggest
a ghetto of Junior researchers who can already be present as equal
participants as in Warsaw. So, we should think about what we can do
in Glascow.
Finally, we
need to develop our website. A first step in this direction would be
the launching of our working-paper series by starting with the
papers presented at the conference.
I hope the
EURA conference provides a great push to our projects and
activities.
Finally, in
the name of all the group, I would like to warmly welcome our new
members that joined to the network in Warsaw.
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News and Announcements
Aesop Young Academics Network
JUNIUS and AESOP Young Academics Network
have decided to collaborate on future activities
For more information about the Network
either click here or check the website of the Network
(http://www.aesop-youngacademics.net/)
EURA-Junius Panel at the ECPR Graduate
The panel proposition that
EURA-JUNIUS members made to the ECPR Graduate conference that will take
place between 7-9 September 2006 in Essex has been
accepted. The panel composed entirely by the members of Eura-Junius is
entitled as
“Leaders, citizens and democracy in European cities: Local politics in
the global order.“
The panel’s structure will be as follows:
.S. Ulas BAYRAKTAR
(Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris- France)- CHAIR
Social capital and
local democracy in Turkey: Local participatory mechanisms in a
comparative perspective
2. Tommaso
CHIAMPARINO
(Universitŕ degli Studi di Firenze- Italy) DISCUSSANT
The Quality of Local
Democracy in Italy and France. A Multidimensional Analysis
3. Lea KŐSZEGHY
(Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences Budapest-Hungary)
New challenges for
local governments in spatial planning in Hungary
4.
Chiara
PORROVECCHIO (SEAF Universitŕ di Palermo-Torino-Italy)
European Spatial
Development, tools for planning and consensus: Some evidences
5.
Katarzyna
RADZIK (Maria
Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin-Poland)
The transformation
of urban political leadership in Polish local government. A comparative
study of capital cities of Polish regions
Click for more information about the event...
ISA World Congress
23-29 July 2006
Durban,
South Africa
Call for
papers for the sessions of RC21 Sociology of Urban and Regional
Development
Recent Publications
Universities and the Battle for
Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods
John I. Gilderbloom - Author
R. L. Mullins Jr. - Author
Henry Cisneros - Foreword by
Revue
Tiers Monde, Janvier-Mars 2005, n°181, "Décentralisation et
développement local: un lien ŕ repenser" (For the TOC and abstracts (in
french), click here).
Comparing Local Governance
Trends and
Developments
Bas Denters and
Lawrence E. Rose, 2005, Palgrave
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