Call: 2nd Int'l and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods...

Deadline: 13 June 2022


Call for Abstracts

2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS Conference) & 1st RC33 Regional Conference Latin America: Brazil
08‒10.09.2022, Online-Conference hosted by the University of São Paulo (Brazil)

Dear Colleagues,

We hereby invite you to submit an abstract for the “2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (“SMUS Conference”), which will simultaneously be the “1st RC33 Regional Conference “Latin America: Brazil”, and take place online at the University of São Paulo (Brazil) from Thursday, September 8th, to Saturday, September 10th, 2022.

About the Conference

The “Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (GCSMUS or SMUS) together with the Research Committee on “Logic and Methodology in Sociology” (RC33) of the “International Sociology Association” (ISA), and the Research Network “Quantitative Methods” (RN21) of the “European Sociology Association” (ESA) will organize the “2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (“SMUS Conference”), which will simultaneously be the “1st RC33 Regional Conference Latin America: Brazil”, and take place online at the University of São Paulo (Brazil) from Thursday, September 8th, to Saturday, September 10th, 2022. The three-day conference aims at continuing a global dialogue on methods and should attract methodologists from all over the world and all social and spatial sciences (e. g. anthropology, area studies, architecture, communication studies, computational sciences, digital humanities, educational sciences, geography, historical sciences, humanities, landscape planning, philosophy, psychology, sociology, urban design, urban planning, traffic planning and environmental planning). The online conference programme will include keynotes, sessions and advanced methodological training courses. With this intention, we invite scholars of all social and spatial sciences and other scholars who are interested in methodological discussions to suggest an abstract to any sessions of the conference. All papers have to address a methodological problem.

Please find more information on the SMUS Brazil 2022 Conference on:
https://gcsmus.org/conferences/brazil/

Information about the above institutions may be found on the following websites:
Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (GCSMUS): https://gcsmus.org/
ISA RC33: http://rc33.org/
ESA RN21: www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn21-quantitative-methods
University of São Paulo: https://www5.usp.br

If you are interested in getting further information on the conference and other GCSMUS activities, please subscribe to the SMUS newsletter by registering via the following website:
https://lists.tu-berlin.de/mailman/listinfo/mes-smusnews

Conference Sessions:

Ethnography as Spatial-Temporal Method
The Longue Durée in the 21st-Century Social Sciences:
Methodological Challenges of Analyzing Long-Term Social Processes
Historical Methods in Grappling with the Global South Challenges in the 21st Century
Political Ecology of the “Urban”: Historical and Situated Perspectives
Decolonizing Social Science Methodology
Co-Production (of Knowledge) as Pathway to Decolonization of Knowledge in the Global South
From Living Labs to Sites of Unity: Decolonizing Urban Experiments with Planetary Futures
Hybrid Mapping and Critical Cartography as Research Methodologies for Cities
Mapping as an Applied Spatial Research Method for Urban Landscape Design and Planning
Mapping Actor-Constellations in Sustainability Research:
How Can we Account for Heterogeneity and Invisibility?
Bridging the Gap of Computational (Structural) and Hermeneutic Approaches in Discourse Analysis
Digitization and Infrastructuring of Qualitative Research – On the Debate about the Potentials and Risks of Archiving and Re-Using Qualitative Research Data
Looking Beyond Twitter Data: Methodical Challenges of Unconventional Large Digital Datasets
Methods and Methodologies of Multi-Sited and Multi-Scalar Research
Migration, Mobilities, and Displacement in the “Global South”
Mobile Methods and Sociospatial Inequalities
Methodological Implications of Intersectional Inequality Research
Spatial Methods in Transdisciplinarity for Urban Sustainability
Interdisciplinary Teaching and Research in Urban Sustainability Projects
Navigating between Social Sciences and Spatial Planning - Methods as an Ambiguous Concept
Social Responsibility and/ or Community Engagement Applied for Collaborative Research and Mutual Learning
Studying Urban Planning and Governance Through Qualitative Approaches:
Perspectives from Various Spatial Contexts
Urban Planning and Design Contribution to Understanding the Socio-Spatial Dynamic of Place and Memory
How to Establish Effective Methodologies for Construction of Inclusive Spaces through Land Use Planning in a Pluriverse Latin American Context?
Methodological Weaknesses in Approaching Affordable Housing in the Global South –
Need for Context-Responsive Approaches
Dialogues on Social Housing
Applying Spatial Methods in Homelessness Studies: Methodological and Ethical Challenges
Spatial Dynamics of Violence: Qualitative Methodologies and Discussions
Analysing Forms of Violence and their Spatial Forms
Spatial Methods in Healthcare Research
Methods of Transnational Organisational and Economic Research
Methods in Food Studies Research

Submission of Abstracts

All sessions must adhere to the rules of session organization comprised in the RC33 statutes and GCSMUS Objectives (see below). If you are interested in presenting a paper in at maximum two of the SMUS Brazil 2022 sessions (including joint papers), please submit an English-language abstract containing the following information to SMUS Brazil 2022 via https://smusbrazil2022.sinteseeventos.com.br between 01.04.2022 and 13.06.2022:

Title of (at maximum two) preferred session(s)
Paper title
Author(s) (= name(s), gender(s), institutional affiliation(s), position(s), country(ies), email address(es))
300- to 500-Word Abstract (= short description of the proposed paper.

The abstract should make explicit (i) the methodological problem addressed, (ii) why this is relevant, (iii) how the paper relates to the session, and (iv) what the general line of argument will be.)

The conference organizers will inform you by 31.07.2022 if your proposed paper has been accepted for presentation at the conference. For further information please see the SMUS Brazil 2022 conference website or contact the session organizers.