The 2007 World Conference of IGU/C 04.27 on Marginalization, Globalization and Regional and Local Response
August 20-25, 2007
Hokkai School of Commerce,
Kitami, Japan
(Second Circular)
Conference Theme: Critical reflections on Local and Regional Responses: Perspectives from the North and the South
Date:
19 August: Arrival in Kitami, Hokkaido
20: Plenary (morning), Parallel Sessions (afternoon, evening)
21: Parallel Sessions (morning, afternoon, evening)
22: Parallel Sessions (morning), Plenary (afternoon), Excursion (Evening; the Suburbs of Kitami City)
23-25: Excursion (ends on evening of the 25th)
Venue:
Development Policy Research Institute, Hokkai School of Commerce
235 Hokkou, Kitami City, Hokkaido 090-8555, Japan
Excursion:
Theme: Economically depressed areas that are endowed with natural beauty attractions.
Tour (provisional):
22 evening: A case study of MAFF’s rural landscape conservation policy. Travel from Kitami city to Abashiri city。MAFF is Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan.
23: Examples of small-sized cities experiencing depression, the Shiretoko World Natural Heritage site, the Sand peninsula and the use of the shallow seabed for harvesting shrimps and shellfish. Visit to a Spa
24: Border region with Russia: the partially barren Konsen plateau, pasture and agricultural landscapes, the home environment for ‘Ainu’ the indigenous people, Kushiro Marshland National Park
25: Coal mining areas, Volcanic landscapes and Mashuu Lake with its high levels of transparency, and Canoe tourism
Chartered Bus. Brief introduction of the hotels during the excursion are shown in the Appendix 1.
Focus and Scope of the Conference:
Commission 04.27 has as its focus the goal of researching and comparing the marginalization and regional/local responses in various areas both rural and urban around the world. One of the main dimensions of marginalization is the economic one, which is often associated with the effects of the spread of capitalism word wide. Globalization, that is, the simultaneous integration of economic factors/fluctuations all over the world is a good example of this. The local/regional effects and responses occur differently around the world due to the local/regional natures and situations. The function of industries, the role of the small and medium-sized cities, entrepreneurship and so on constitute a key part of this sub-theme. These kinds of topics will be summarized as economic research in general.
Commission 04.27 also has the tradition of focusing upon the marginalization and regional/local response to it from the viewpoints of cultural, ecological, historical, psychological and so on. The regional comparisons and the frame of reference upon these topics are expected to pursue.
When considering the successful regional/local responses for a sustainable society, both the tangible and intangible assets and resources and their management play important roles. In this sense, the topic of the suitable management of local/regional resources and heritages constitutes one of main sub-themes. Social capital in contemporary society and its temporal dynamics and areal differentiation also are one sub-theme. Their role and management in the post-industrial society and in the knowledge society may also become a topic to be touched upon.
In contemporary society we see the strong impact and function of the politics and regional policies. If we look carefully, we will notice a lot of policies weave a web in a society. Not only agricultural and forestry policies as well as industrial policies, but also regional policies such as the policies for less favoured areas cover and function in the contemporary world. Critical comparative reflections on them will constitute a topic of interest, too.
The restructuring and innovative responses of the communities are taking place in many countries. In several countries the merger/amalgamation or the cooperation of the administrative corporations are taking place. In many countries various struggles for the community governance are tied together such as in cooperation with informal/voluntary sectors and in the system of partnership among several organizations. The principles such as social inclusion/exclusion, community involvement, the sense of belonging and empowerment all fall within the same category. Elderly care welfare, redundancies, social networks and the creative communication systems are typical topics of this branch. All of these relate to the topic of community development as social/sociological study in general.
Papers of both theoretical and empirical nature are welcome. The scales of the study area range from local, to regional, national and international. While any scale may be the focus, comparison between countries (regions, or continents, that is, at the same scale) will be particularly welcomed. Among topics of interest above mentioned (but not limited to) are:
･Rural, Urban, and Rural-Urban Development (also including the Role
of Industry, the Role of Medium and Small-Sized Cities, Opportunities and
Mechanism to Escape from the Marginalization, (and associated Economic considerations
in general)
･The Restrictions
and Structures of Marginalization induced by Economic Globalization, and
associated Cultural, Historical, Psychological Factors etc.
･Sustainable Management of Local/Regional Resources and Heritage
･The Role of
Social Capital in Contemporary Society and Its Temporal Dynamics/Areal
Differentiation
･The Role and
Perspective of Politics and Regional Policies in Contemporary Society
･Community Development and associated issues of Governance,
Voluntarism, Partnership and so forth, that is, Social Studies in general
Composition of the Conference:
The conference is constituted by plenary and parallel sessions. The parallel sessions will also include the following two special sessions:
1) The Asian session: As the Conference is held in Asia, one session is intended to focus upon the comparison of marginalization, globalization and regional/local response in East, Southeast and South Asia.
2) The session on Social Capital and Development Trends in the Japanese and Swedish Countryside: This session is jointly organized by Swedish researchers and the MARG(Marginal Areas Research Group) members interested in the development of sparsely populated areas with a particular focus on social capital.
3) Other parallel sessions will be constituted according to the abstracts that participants submit.
On the first day, in the morning of 20 August, the opening greetings of the Conference will be made and the keynote lectures presented. These will be open to the general public, that is, the citizens of Kitami City and Hokkaido. Translated documents at hand will be distributed. From the afternoon of 20 August to the morning 22 August, the parallel sessions will continue. On the afternoon of 22 August, the concluding plenary session will be held.
In order to make the Conference more productive and fruitful, discussants will be appointed to each presentation and chair for each module of each session will also be appointed.
Publication:
As well as the previous Conference, all efforts will be made to ensure that selected papers from the Conference are published. Detailed information will be supplied later.
Submission Information and Key Dates:
- 15 April 2007: Deadline of the submission of abstracts to Local Organizer, Yasutaka Matsuo. Title and Abstracts in Word (max 300 words) may be sent by e-mail to matsuo@isc.senshu-u.ac.jp. The abstract should include title, author(s), affiliation, complete address, phone number and e-mail address
- 15 April 2007: Final date for delegates to submit a statement of their intention whether or not to participate in the excursion of 22 - 25 August
- 10 June 2007: Closing date for payment of the registration fee, accommodation fee from 19 night-22 morning (three nights) and the 22 – 25 evening excursion fee
- 30 June 2007: Provisional programme announcement by Local Organizer
- 30 July 2007: Deadline of the submission of the completed presentation papers to the Local Organizer. The Local Organizing Committee will prepare the necessary number of copies of the papers submitted by this day. After this day, the presenter will need to bring the required number of copies with him/her.
- 5 August 2007: Discussants appointed. Details will be shown on the homepage and an email will be sent to inform him/her of it by the Local Organizer.
- 19 August 2007: Delegates arrive in Kitami.
- 20-25 August 2007: Conference and Excursion
Fees of Registration, Accommodation and
Excursion
Payment: to Japanese postal savings account or the bank account below.
<<The postal savings account>>
Name: “2007 IGU/C. 04.27. Local Organizing Committee”.
Account Number: 10230-57130571. It does not have the swift code (international bank deposit number).
Address: A49 (Yasutaka Matsuo) 6th Building, Senshu University, 2-1-1 Higashimita, Tama-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken,
Postal Code: 214-0033
Nationality: Japan
As the countries to and from that the international remittances where the postal savings account is available are restricted, I also set up another bank account.
<<Bank Account>>
Name: “Fukutakezaidan Kenkyujosei Matsuo Yasutaka”
Bank name: Noborito Branch of Bank of Yokohama.
Swift Code: 0138, ‘Branch Number’ 826, and ‘Account Number’ 1396362.
The charge of remittance from Japan of the postal savings is cheaper than that of the bank. The list of the countries to which the remittance from Japanese postal savings account is available is shown in the appendix 2. As I do not know which is better from abroad to Japan, please ask the office first and use the better one.
If you have queries, please ask me. E-mail is matsuo@isc.senshu-u.ac.jp and work phone number is +81.44.911.1290.
Registration fee: 12,000 yen. Inclusive of the cost of participation, documents at hand, name card, lunches of 20th, 21st, and 22nd August, coffee break.
Fee for Accommodation from the evening of the 19th to morning of the 22nd (three nights): 21,600 yen at the. “Kitami Tohwa Hotel.” (Single room with breakfast rate). 30 single rooms are temporarily secured.
Fee for Excursion from the evening of the 22nd – evening of the 25th: 45,000 yen. (It includes the dinner and breakfast during the excursion. Lunch is not included. I sincerely hope many members will participate in the Conference and Excursion and enjoy it!) Excursion begins 15:00 on 22nd at Kitami city and ends at 17:00 of 25th at Memanbetsu Airport. If you would like to attend only part of the excursion, please write down the date and place where you would like to leave the excursion. There are airports near Nakashibetsu and Kushiro from where you can flight to Haneda Airport.
Means of Transportation:
Narita International Airport – (train. 2 and a half hours) – Haneda Airport – Memanbetsu Airport –(bus) – center of Kitami
Kansai International Airport – Memanbetsu Airport –(bus) - center of Kitami
Narita I A and Haneda A are located in Kanto District (Tokyo metropolitan area). Kansai I A is located in Kinki District (South of Osaka). The distance between Narita I A and Haneda A I is about 50 – 60 km. The distance between Narita I A (Haneda A) and Kansai I A is about 600 - 650 km.
Memanbetsu airport provides good bus service to the center of Kitami city. It also provides another bus service to other cities, so you should ask the bus driver the destination first. The cost of one-way bus is about 1000 yen. After dropping the terminal bus stop, you will arrive at the Kitami Tohwa Hotel in less than 15 minutes walk. I will attach the guide maps later.
As the middle of August public transport and roads get jammed with people going home because a great deal of Japanese people move around due to “Bon”, the Buddhist souls festival at midsummer to pay homage to the spirits of ancestors at hometowns. Nowadays some people spend these days as their vacation in foreign countries, so that the airplane also gets jammed. Therefore, it would be recommended, if possible, to book the tickets in much advance.
Organizing Committee:
Commission 04.27 Steering Committee:
Chair (Organizer) Prof. Etienne Nel, Rhodes Univ., South Africa.
Prof. Bradley Cullen, Univ. of New Mexico, USA.
Prof. Fernanda Delgado Cravidão, Coimbra Univ., Portugal.
Prof. Gareth Jones, UK.
Prof. Yasutaka Matsuo, Senshu Univ., Japan.
Prof.Stanko Pelc, Univ. of Primorska, Slovenia.
Prof. Pushkar, K. Pradhan, Tribhuvan Univ., Nepal.
Prof. Margarita Schmidt, Univ. Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina.
Prof. Ali Toumi, Tunisie.
Prof. J A(Tony) Binns, Univ. of Otago, New Zealand.
Secretary: Prof. Walter Leimgruber, Univ. de Fribourg, Suisse
Local Organizing Committee:
Local Organizer Prof. Yasutaka Matsuo, Senshu Univ.
Prof. Tohru Tamura, Muroran Institute of Technology.
Prof. Hideaki Abe, Hokkai School of Commerce.
Prof. Kiyoshi Takahashi, Kitami Institute of Technology.
Prof. Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto Univ.
Application Sheet of Registration,
Accommodation and Excursion
Registration: one person, two persons,
Given Name:
Surname:
Given Name:
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Accommodation: Please draw a circle in the box when you stay at night
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Total Cost: yen
Please fill this sheet and send it to me as an attached file to matsuo@isc.senshu-u.ac.jp.
If you have some restrictions on the meals, please write the foodstuffs (ingredients) that you evade.
Appendix 1.
Thirty rooms are temporarily booked every day. All can be used as a single room. If you are accompanied with some person(s), please inform it and your request such as the kind of rooms to me. As for the meals restriction, please inform it to me too. URLs of the hotels are shown below.
Hotel of the night of August 22: “Abashiri-koso” (The meaning is Hotel alongside the Lake Abashiri). All the rooms are twin types, but you can use it as a single room. As it has two kinds of large spa bathrooms additionally, you can enjoy them. Address: Yobito 78, Abashiri-shi 099-2421. Phone: 81.152 48 2311, Fax: 81.152 48 2828. http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~abashiri/koso/index.html.
Hotel of the night of August 23: “Toyo Grand Hotel”. Most areas of Hokkaido are suffering from depopulation. The central city Sapporo and the local municipality Nakashibetsu are among rare exceptions. Address: Kita 1 chome, Higashi 20 jo, Nakashibetsu-cho 018-1060. Phone: 81.153 73 1234, Fax. 81.153 73 1040. http://toyo-hotel.jp/.
Hotel of the night of August 24: “Kushiro Tokyu In” It is located in front of the Kushiro station. Address: 13-1-14 Kita-ohdori, Kushiro-shi 085-0015. Phone: 81.154 22 0109. http://www.kushiro-i.tokyuhotels.co.jp/ja/index.html.
Appendix 2.
The list of countries to which Japanese services of the international remittances of the postal savings are available is as follows (within my checking capability);
<Asia> Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Republic of Korea, Laos, Macao, Malaysia, Maldives, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam
<Africa> Algeria, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Ghana, Guinea, Madagascar, Mayotte, Morocco, Mozambique, Reunion, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia
<Europe> Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Moldova, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Vatican
<Americas>
Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mexico, Peru, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Suriname, Uruguay, USA
<Oceania>
Australia, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau