Research School Welfare State and Diversity Aalborg University - Roskilde University

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1 Research School Welfare State and Diversity Aalborg University Department of Sociology, Social Work and Organisation Kroghstræde 7 DK-9220 Aalborg East =233 head of school: adc@socsci.aau.dk secretary: kbm@socsci.aau.dk Dear participants, We are looking forward to seeing you at the Ph.D. Course SOCIAL INEQUALITIES. Local and global belonging June 2009 at Aalborg University. We are sorry to tell you that Loic Wacquant has unfortunately cancelled his visit to Denmark. We hope it will be possible to arrange a new course with Wacquant next year. Due to this change the course will finish on Thursday afternoon. Please find enclosed: - Final programme - List of Participants - Reading List Deadline for submission of paper is 28 May. Paper is to be sent to secretary Kirsten Buhl Mathiasen, kbm@socsci.aau.dk Do you have special needs regarding food please inform us not later than 28 May. Best wishes Annick Prieur and Ann-Dorte Christensen 1

2 FINAL PROGRAMME: SOCIAL INEQUALITIES Local and global belonging June Relying on an encompassing understanding of inequalities and their intersections, this Ph.D. course has contemporary forms of inequality and differentiation and their implications on identities and belonging as its topic. The aim is to stimulate the development of theoretical and methodological approaches to grasp both changes and stability in practices, lifestyles and identities, in the formations of communities and patterns of belonging. Invited speaker Professor Mike Savage, Manchester University Organisers Annick Prieur, professor, Department of Sociology, Social Work and Organisation, Aalborg University Ann-Dorte Christensen, professor, Department of Sociology, Social Work and Organisation, Aalborg University. John Andersen, professor, Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change, Roskilde University Venue Aalborg University, Department of Sociology, Social Work and Organisation, Kroghstræde 5, DK-9220 Aalborg East Language English ECTS 2 points for participation, additional 2 points for paper. Fee DKK 1000,- ( 135,-). The fee covers coffee/tea, lunch and a conference dinner. 2

3 Programme: June 10 (Wednesday) Room 47, Kroghstræde 7 1 p.m. 3 p.m. Lecture: Mike Savage: The politics of elective belonging. Discussant: Anja Jørgensen, associate professor, Aalborg University 3.30 p.m p.m. Ph.D. presentations 7.30 p.m. Dinner at San Giovanni (Italian restaurant in the center of Aalborg) June 11 (Thursday) Room 47, Kroghstræde 7 9 a.m a.m. Lecture Mike Savage: Four approaches to the analysis of class and stratification. 11 a.m. 12 Lecture Lecture John Andersen: Action research, critical theory and empowerment - forgotten concepts or the way forward?the lecture will argue for the fruitfulness of research/knowledge creation as part of or linked to empowerment processes and collective action, participatory inquiry in close dialog with critical theory, with examples from recent research about empowerment practices and strategies in deprived urban neighborhoods in Denmark. Lunch 1 p.m. 3 p.m. Ph.D. presentations p.m p.m. Annick Prieur: Class Today. Some results from the COMPAS research project in Aalborg. 3

4 Reading list (Participants should select a minimum of 400 pages from the list below) Andersen, John (2005) Empowermentperspektivet. Social Kritik nr Andersen, John og Hovgaard, Gestur: Metodekombination med sociologisk fantasi. I: Teknikker i Samfundsvidenskaberne. Lars Fuglsang ; Peter Hagedorn-Rasmussen ; Poul Bitch Olsen (red.) Frederiksberg Roskilde Universitetsforlag, s Tony Bennett, Mike Savage, Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva, Alan Warde, Modesto Gayo-Cal, David Wright (2008): Culture, Class, Distinction. London: Routledge T. Blokland and M. Savage (eds.) (2008) Networked Urbanism. Social Capital in the City. Ashgate. Ann-Dorte Christensen (2008) Belonging and Unbelonging in an Intersectional Perspective Paper for the Third Sino-Nordic Women and Gender Studies Conference. Kumning, China, November 2008 link: (will be published in revised version in Gender, Technology & Development, vol. 13, no.2, 2009) F. Devine, M. Savage, J. Scott and R. Crompton (2005) (ed.) Rethinking Class. Culture, Identities & Lifestyle. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Reason, Peter and Bradbury, Hilary: Introduction and Participation in Search of a World Worthy of Human Aspiration. In: Reason and Bradbory (2001) Handbook of Action Research. Partipative Inquiry & Practice. Sage. pp Prieur, A., L. Rosenlund & J. Skjøtt-Larsen: "Cultural Capital Today: A case study from Denmark". Poetics, Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts. Vol 36: 1. Mike Savage, Gaynor Bagnall and Brian J. Longhurst: Globalization and belonging. London: SAGE Wacquant, Loic (2008) Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality. Malden: Polity Press. 4

5 Participants Name Mail Institution Anders Bøgild Christensen VIA University College Annette Quinto Romani Aalborg Universitet Brian Høyer Lorentsen Udviklingsteamet Grazyna Grabowska Polish Academy of Science, System Research Institute Poland Nicol Foulkes University of Tampere, Finland Pia Nielsen Aalborg Universitet Tove Rasmussen VIA University College Yildiz Atas Roskilde Universitet Kristian Delica Roskilde Universitet Martin Frandsen Roskilde Universitet Morten Kyed Aalborg Universitet Further information Accommodations Villa Rosa, BB, Aalborg Sømandshjem og hotel: Limfjordshotellet: 5