Poverty, Ethnicity

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Poverty, Ethnicity and Spatial Change in Eastern and Central Europe

July 9-July 27, 2001

Course Director:

János Ladányi, Budapest University of Economics, Hungary

Resource Persons:

Peter Marcuse, Columbia University, USA

Enzo Mingione, University of Milano, Italy

Jiri Musil, Prague

Gábor Csanádi, ELTE Institute of Sociology

Iskra Dandolowa, Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

Course objectives

The socio-economic structure of a city, and the spatial allocation of different social groups, can be interpreted as the spatially objective reflection of their complex system of social relations. As the house or apartment has the highest value among the available durable consumer goods, and as the different social groups try to express social distances through their spatial segregation, the changes in the socio-spatial structure of cities can be interpreted as one of the best indicators of changes in basic structural inequalities.

The course intends to deal with the following issues:

	What were the specific characteristics of social and spatial structures of Eastern and Central European societies inherited from the state-socialist period?
	In what ways have these structures changed since 1989?
	If the trends of the past few years can be extrapolated what kind of changes could be expected in the socio-spatial structure of Eastern and Central European countries in the future?

The course intends to analyze

	post-communist regional and urban developments within the context of social and economic restructuring
	regional and urban social and ethnic conflicts
	the new forces structuring the socio-spatial structure of cities in the context of privatization, deregulation and globalizzation

Course content

Course Introduction – János Ladányi

Globalization and the Partitioning of Cities – Peter Marcuse

Regional and Urban Poverty and the Underclass. An International Comparison. Local Welfare Systems – Enzo Mingione

Changing Patterns of Social and Ethnic Residental Segregation. Suburbanization and Ghettoization - János Ladányi

Privatization and Urban Restructuring in Prague. Urbanism as a Way of Life Revisited – Jiri Musil

Computer Maps on Socio-Spatial Structure of Cities - Gábor Csanádi

Stigma and Division of American and French Poor – Loic Wacquant

Privatization and Urban Restructuring in Bulgarian Cities – Iskra Dandolowa

Round Table Discussions

	Globalization and Partitioned Cities. Chairman: Peter Marcuse
	New Forms of Urban Poverty. Chairman: Enzo Mingione
	New Roles of Urban Culture and Multiculturality. Chairman: János Ladányi

We have recruited some of the best regional and urban specialists in order to give to this program a unique perspective via different disciplines from geography to sociology and history.

Participants

By combining all of the experts, the participants of this course will be able to come out of it with the best knowledge of regional and urban studies specifically for this region. Participants will be required to attend all lectures, seminars, round-table discussions and field trips.

Required Materials

A reader will be also compiled of selected articles and will be sent to the participants in advance. At the beginning of the course books related to the topic will be given to the participants.

CEU Non-Discrimination Policy

Central European University does not discriminate on the basis of --including, but not limited to-- race, color, national and ethnic origin, religion, gender or sexual orientation in administering its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.

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