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Lieber AK,<br>
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Nina Baur von der TU Berlin bat darum, den unten stehenden Call an
den AK Feministische Geographien weiterzuleiten. Perspektiven aus
der Geographie sind offenbar herzlich willkommen!<br>
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Viele Grüße,<br>
anne<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span>
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lang="EN-US">Call for Abstracts: “1st International and
Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods” (SMUS
Conference) 23 – 26.09.2021 (Deadline: 31.05.2021)</span></b><span
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style="color:#2E74B5;letter-spacing:0pt;font-style:normal"
lang="EN-GB">Call for Abstracts<br>
for the “1st International and Interdisciplinary
Conference on Spatial Methods” (SMUS Conference)<br>
and “1st RC33 Regional Conference – Africa: Botswana”<br>
in cooperation with ESA RN21 “Quantitative Methods”<br>
23 – 26.09.2021, Gaborone, Botswana<br>
(Deadline: 31.05.2021)</span></b></p>
<p class="StandardAbstandvorne"><span lang="EN-GB">Dear
Colleagues,</span></p>
<p class="StandardAbstandvorne"><span lang="EN-GB">We hereby
invite you to submit an abstract for the “1st International
and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods” (SMUS
Conference) and “1st RC33 Regional Conference – Africa:
Botswana” in cooperation with ESA RN21 “Quantitative
Methods” 23 – 26.09.2021, organised and hosted online by the
University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana.</span></p>
<h1 style="text-align:left" align="left"><span lang="EN-GB">About
the Conference</span></h1>
<p class="StandardAbstandvorne"><span lang="EN-GB">The “Global
Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (GCSMUS)
together with the Research Committee on “Logic and
Methodology in Sociology” (RC33) of the “International
Sociology Association” (ISA) and the Research Network
“Quantitative Methods” (RN21) of the European Sociology
Association” (ESA) will organize a “1<sup>st</sup>
International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial
Methods” (“SMUS Conference”) which will at the same time be
the “1<sup>st</sup> RC33 Regional Conference – Africa:
Botswana” from Thursday 23.09 – Sunday 26.09.2021, hosted by
the University of Botswana in Gaborone, Botswana. Given the
current challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference
will convene entirely
<b><span style="color:#5B9BD5">online</span></b>. The
conference aims at promoting a global dialogue on methods
and should attract methodologists from all over the world
and all social and spatial sciences (e.g. area studies,
architecture, communication studies, educational sciences,
geography, historical sciences, humanities, landscape
planning, philosophy, psychology, sociology, urban design,
urban planning, traffic planning and environmental
planning). Thus, the conference will enable scholars to get
in contact with methodologists from various disciplines all
over the world and to deepen discussions with researchers
from various methodological angles. Scholars of all social
and spatial sciences and other scholars who are interested
in methodological discussions are invited to submit a paper
to any sessions of the conference. All papers have to
address a methodological problem.</span></p>
<p class="StandardAbstandvorne"><span lang="EN-GB">Please find
more information on the above institutions on the following
websites:</span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">“Global
Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability”
(GCSMUS):<br>
</span><a href="https://gcsmus.org" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
lang="EN-US">https://gcsmus.org</span></a><span
style="mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-US"> and
</span><a href="http://www.mes.tu-berlin.de/spatialmethods"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span lang="EN-US">www.mes.tu-berlin.de/spatialmethods</span></a><span
lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="FR-CA">ISA
RC33: </span><a href="http://rc33.org/"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span lang="FR-CA">http://rc33.org/</span></a><span
lang="FR-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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href="http://www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn21-quantitative-methods"
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www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn21-quantitative-methods</a></p>
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of Botswana in Gaborone:
</span><a href="http://www.ub.bw" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
lang="EN-US">www.ub.bw</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="StandardAbstandvorne"><span lang="EN-US">If you are
interested in getting
<b><span style="color:#5B9BD5">further information on the
conference</span></b><span style="color:#5B9BD5">
</span>and other GCSMUS activities, please <b><span
style="color:#5B9BD5">subscribe to the GCSMUS newsletter</span></b><span
style="color:#5B9BD5">
</span>by registering via the following website:</span><span
lang="EN-US"> </span>
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moz-do-not-send="true"><span lang="EN-US">https://lists.tu-berlin.de/mailman/listinfo/mes-smusnews</span></a><span
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<h1 style="text-align:left" align="left"><span lang="EN-GB">Conference
Sessions:</span></h1>
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Social Science Methodology – Towards African Epistemologies</span></p>
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Social Science Methodology – Overcoming Positivism and
Constructivism</span></p>
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Methodologies and Epistemologies: Discourse Analysis and
Sociology of Knowledge
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">Culturally
Sensitive Approaches for the Global South – Potential New
Directions of Empirical Research</span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">Critical
Conversations on Bagele Chilisa’s Indigenous Research
Methodologies</span></p>
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the History of Postcolonial States with Qualitative Methods</span></p>
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‒ Interaction ‒ Social Structure</span></p>
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and Multi-Method Approaches to Global-South-Migration</span></p>
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Micro-Macro-Analysis
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Networks between the Structural and the Everyday: Methods
that Bridge Macro- and Micro-Perspectives for a Better
Comparative Understanding of Cities
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for the Investigation Spatial Transformation Processes</span></p>
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Centric Approaches on Urban Futures</span></p>
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of Architectural Research</span></p>
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and Design Based-Research, Cross-Disciplinary Approaches for
Material Knowledge Production</span></p>
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Contribution of Urban Design to the Qualitative Methodology
Discourse</span></p>
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for Change? Resituating 'Slow Time'. Craftwo/manship and
Power</span></p>
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Research Methods in Interdisciplinary Urban Sustainability
Projects</span></p>
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Role of ‘Productive Interactions’ between Researchers and
Stakeholders in Creating Rigorous and Relevant Research for
Urban Sustainability</span></p>
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Creation in Informal Settlements: The Process, Ethics and
Outputs of Co-Productive and Community-Led Research Methods</span></p>
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in the Global South – Shedding Light into the Black Box</span></p>
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Data Quality in Interviewer-Administered Surveys in LMIC
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">Assessing
the Quality of Survey Data</span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">Digital
Methods in Action: Use, Challenges and Prospects</span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">Researching
Climate Change Communication: Methodological Challenges and
Opportunities in the Digital Era</span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">Money
and Digitalisation in the Global South</span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">Methods
in Food Studies Research</span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">Locating
the Religious/Secular in Africa: Methodological Challenges
Conveners</span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">Ethical
and Methodological Dilemmas of Social Research in Violent
Conflict Situations</span></p>
<h1 style="text-align:left" align="left"><span lang="EN-GB">Submission
of Papers</span></h1>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language:DE" lang="EN-GB">All
sessions have to comply with the conference organization
rules (see below).
</span><span lang="EN-US">If you want to present a paper,
please submit your abstract via the official conference
website:
</span><a href="https://gcsmus.org" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
lang="EN-US">https://gcsmus.org</span></a><span
lang="EN-US"> between 20.02.2021 and 31.05.2021. You will be
informed by 31.07.2021, if your proposed paper has been
accepted for presentation at the conference. For further
information, please see the conference website or contact
the session organizers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">Conference Organizers</span></i><span
lang="EN-US">:<br>
Gabriel Faimau (University of Botswana, Botswana) and Nina
Baur (TU Berlin, Germany)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">Botswana Organizing
Team</span></i><span lang="EN-US">: Gabriel Faimau,
Sethunya Mosime, France Maphosa, Godisang Mookodi, Ikanyeng
Malila, Gwen Lesetedi, Latang Sechele, Esther
Nkhukhu-Orlando<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1><span lang="EN-GB">Rules for Session Organization (According
to GCSMUS Objectives and RC 33 Statutes)</span></h1>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">There
will be <span style="color:#5B9BD5">
no conference fees</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">The
conference language is <span style="color:#5B9BD5">
English</span>. All papers therefore need to be presented
in English.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">All
sessions have to be <span style="color:#5B9BD5">
international</span>: Each session should have speakers
from at least two countries (exceptions will need good
reasons).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">Each
paper must contain a <span style="color:#5B9BD5">
methodological problem </span>(any area, qualitative or
quantitative).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">There
will be several calls for abstracts via the GCSMUS, RC33 and
RN21 Newsletters. To begin with, session organizers can
prepare a call for abstracts on their own initiative, then
at a different time, there will be a common call for
abstracts, and session organizers can ask anybody to submit
a paper.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">GCSMUS,
RC33 and RN21 members may distribute these calls via other
channels. GCSMUS members and session organizers are expected
to actively advertise their session in their respective
scientific communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">Speakers
can only have <span style="color:#5B9BD5">
one talk per session</span>. This also applies for joint
papers. It will not be possible for A and B to present at
the same time one paper as B and A during the same session.
This would just extend the time allocated to these speakers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">Session
organizers may present a paper in their own session.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">Sessions
will have a length of 90 minutes with a maximum of 4 papers
or a length of 120 minutes with a maximum of 6 papers.
Session organizers can invite as many speakers as they like.
The number of sessions depends on the number of papers
submitted to each session. E.g. if 12 good papers are
submitted to a session, there will be two sessions with a
length of 90 minutes each with 6 papers in each session.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">Papers
may only be rejected for the conference if they do not
present a methodological problem (as stated above), are not
in English or are somehow considered by session organizers
as not being appropriate or relevant for the conference.
Session organizers may ask authors to revise and resubmit
their paper so that it fits these requirements. If session
organizers do not wish to consider a paper submitted to
their session, they should inform the author and forward the
paper to the local organizing team who will find a session
where the paper fits for presentation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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directly addressed to the conference organising committee
(and those forwarded from session organizers) will be
offered to other session organizers (after proofing for
quality). The session organizers will have to decide on
whether or not the paper can be included in their
session(s). If the session organizers think that the paper
does not fit into their session(s), the papers should be
sent back to the conference organizing committee as soon as
possible so that the committee can offer the papers to
another session organizer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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