Conceptualising and Measuring Segregation: Spatial Scale, Population Structure
and Population Dynamics

Call for papers:

Segregation studies have moved beyond using global indicators to measure
residential population patterns at one point in time.  Increasingly,
geographical population structures have been investigated in more sophisticated
ways through the use of spatial indicators and other approaches drawn from
spatial statistics.  Attention has also been directed to understanding more
about the temporal context for segregation (whether in analyzing segregation
change through time or in considering how population patterns evolve in the
context of migration).  Beyond this, imaginative attempts have also been made to
explore other dimensions of segregation (such as that of employment) beyond the
purely residential.

Organized sessions in the 2010 AAG Annual Meeting in Washington, DC attempt to
draw these developments together.  Expressions of interest are sought from
geographers and other social scientists working on segregation.  Contributions
that focus on (1) spatial statistics and their use in understanding geographical
population structures; (2) the analysis of change through time; and (3) the
dynamic context for segregation are particularly pertinent although research in
other allied areas is also welcome.  If you are interested to present your paper
in one of our organised sessions, please provide the abstract and PIN to one of
us by October 23rd after you submit your abstract on the AAG website
(http://www.aag.org).

		       
Chris Lloyd		c.lloyd@qub.ac.uk
Ian Shuttleworth	i.shuttleworth@qub.ac.uk
David Wong		dwong2@gmu.edu