10TH URBAN SPACE AND SOCIAL LIFE: THEORY AND PRACTICE

CHALLENGES TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

Location: Osaka University & Tenjin Daiichi Building 6FL, Osaka, Japan

Building on previous conferences on Urban Space and Social Life, this conference seeks to explore a timely and a critical issue of our time: the rising trend of exclusion and a retreat from diversity within many countries. Given the rising levels of tension and sometimes violence within and among communities, cities, and nations due to recent political, economic, and social divisiveness around the world (anti-globalization, Trumpism, trade wars, Brexit, US-Canada-Mexico Trade Agreement, climate change etc), our 10th conference brings together scholars and practitioners from all disciplines to provide scrutinize and analyze pressing issues related to inclusion and exclusion.

The conference invites research papers, case studies, policy proposals, and photo essays pertaining topics relating to challenges to inclusivity. Suggested topics include the following:

- Diversity and Inclusiveness
- Spatial design for inclusivity and exclusion
- Participation in local and global communities
- Immigrants, migrants, and refugees, inclusion and exclusion
- Urban/Rural heritage and urban renewal/expansion and urbanization of rural areas
- Dynamics in sustainable tourism / balance between locals and tourists / assessment
- Wild life and humans
- Education empowerment: inclusion and exclusion
- Disempowerment
- Multiculturalism (race, gender, class, age, sexuality, cultures, religions…)
- Transportation infrastructure and inclusion
- Inclusion and exclusion in the work place
- Inclusive and exclusive designs of the built and social environments
- Politics of inclusive growth and exclusion
- Food/water/air/land access

Other topics and themes as appropriate