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India's Urban Ecologies 2018 : Envisioning the Future and Understanding the Realities of India’s Urban Ecologies

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Link: http://dga.kennesaw.edu/yearof/india/conference.php
 
When Mar 15, 2018 - Mar 17, 2018
Where Marietta, GA
Submission Deadline TBD
 

Call For Papers

India, a land of ancient wisdom and cultural world heritage, is home to the world’s first
cities. In the last twenty years it has experienced unprecedented growth, development, and change, altering its physical, cultural, and social landscape with dramatic effect. Today, its cities embody a paradoxical mix of globalization, modernity, and advanced technology with regionalism, tradition, and religion, juxtaposed with extreme poverty and
inequality.

Sustainability, in all its facets has emerged as a key problem in India’s development story. Urbanization is not an independent variable of development, but an integral part and product of the development process itself. Therefore, there is a need to understand urban issues as part of a larger development process affecting both rural and urban
communities and livelihoods, employing historical and contemporary perspectives (with regional and global implications).

Building off research in the fields of Sociology, Biology, and Architecture, the conference will examine contemporary urban growth in India and its effects on the everyday ecologies of its people. Our goal is a more holistic understanding of India’s urban ecologies, their interdependence, and the need for more sustainable strategies for
urbanization. India’s cities can provide applicable lessons to the more global concerns of urbanization around the world.

Potential topics include:

Is there a distinctly ‘Indian’ Urbanism?
Rural Urbanization and Urban Planning
Balancing Growth and Development
Colonial and Postcolonial Cities
Dispersed Cities
Infrastructure and Innovation in Historic Cities
Global/Smart City Development in India and its Implications
E-governance and Technology
Green Cities and Sustainability
Current Trends, Future Projections, and Key Challenges for Sustainability
Inclusive Growth: Slums, Urban Villages, and the Challenge of Urbanism
Value Struggles: Waste, Work and Ecology
Agrarian Crisis and Land Acquisition
Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship
Impacts of Urbanization on the Environment
Urban Health and Quality of Life
Global Warming, Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Re-emerging Diseases
Infrastructure & Industrialization: Impact on Air, Water, Sanitation & Pollution

To participate, please submit papers of no more than 5,000 words. The entire paper submission (title page, abstract, main text, figures, graphs, tables, references, etc.) must be in ONE document created in either Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx), or Rich Text Format (.rtf).

Please include your name, institutional affiliation, position or title, contact phone number, and e-mail. If you wish to propose a panel, please submit the names and institutional affiliation of all panelists.

Attach the document to an email message. Type “Year of India Conference” in the subject line and send it to Dan Paracka at dparacka@kennesaw.edu.

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