Innovative comparative methods in international research and practice (call for papers ACSP 2007)
Pre-Organized ACSP session, call for papers
Track: International Development Planning
Co-organizers: Ayse Pamuk and Smita Srinivas
We are experiencing the need for new methods of data conceptualization, definition, collection and analysis for planning research and practice in the face of new global realities. These realities include the shifting frame of what planners do, transformation of the planners’ ability to access digital spatial and other data, regional efforts to standardize collection of urban data, the increasing availability of data to a wide range of planners and the need to conceptualize and collect new types of data.
Widely used current methods in an international context include case studies, cross-national (or cross-regional) statistical analyses, and qualitative comparative research using mixed methods. Increasingly, new types of cross-country, intra-regional and longitudinal studies in a global context are emerging that require alternative types of data, methods and analysis. Conventional methods are also being faced with rapidly shifting definitions of planning and policy analysis, including increasingly inter-disciplinary scholarship and practice. This is particularly true in the so-called “developing” world, but also for researchers attempting studies across the “developed/developing” divide.
We encourage the submission of papers on innovative or new types of methods, mixed-methods or reflective pieces addressing current methodological challenges in international research and practice. These innovative methodologies deal with specific challenges in planning practice as well as present a set of questions on defining new approaches to planning theory, policy-making and program analysis. We also encourage presenters to make explicit where possible the political, ethical or other institutional context within which their data and methods were situated. Papers based on recent empirical research are especially invited. We welcome submissions from established scholars, recent Ph.Ds as well as doctoral students. We anticipate the papers from this session leading into a co-edited volume on innovative international development and planning methods. Finally, we hope to have this lead into a broader engagement with the Global Planning Educators’ Interest Group (GPEIG) in influencing the types of urban and regional data that are collected for scholarship and practice globally.
To be included in this pre-organized paper session, paper abstracts should be sent to *both* and no later than Feb. 14. If you have any questions regarding the scope of your paper or the session, please email us.
Ayse Pamuk and Smita Srinivas
Ayse Pamuk, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Urban Studies
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, California 94132-4155
Tel: 415/338-7045
Fax: 415/338-2391
Email:
http://bss.sfsu.edu/pamuk
Smita Srinivas, Ph.D.
Asst. Prof. of Urban Planning
Director, Technological Change and Urban Social Policy Unit (TCUSP)
Columbia University
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
1172 Amsterdam Avenue MC 0340
New York, NY 10027 USA
Office: 303 Buell Hall
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