ICUES 2013 - Fourth International Conference on? Urban and ExtraUrban Studies

These are ominous times. As globalization, neoliberalism, and economic eclipse cast a foreboding shadow across a vast terrain, we experience the reality of growing socioeconomic polarization and widening socio-spatial cleavages. Spaces and Flows is an international conference, a peer reviewed scholarly journal, a book series and an online knowledge community that address some of the most pressing and perturbing socio-spatial questions of our times. These discussion forums focus on spaces and flows as crucibles of ongoing transformation. In this context, we address three central issues:
What are the new and emerging spaces of production, consumption, and human living (as human created products) as communities, regions, and societies organize and re-organize in current times?
What are the new flows of people, goods, services, information, and ideas in current times?
In addressing these questions, our discussions range between the local the global, the empirical and the theoretical, the utopian and the pragmatic, the disciplinary and the transdisciplinary, research and its application, and the practices of knowledge making and those of knowledge dissemination.