The IGU Commission on Marginalization, Globalization and Regional and Local Response will be holding their annual meeting in Dunedin, after the IGU Regional Conference in Brisbane.

FIRST CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

Venue: Dunedin, New Zealand from 9 - 12 July 2006
Date: 9 - 12 July 2006

CONFERENCE THEME:LOCAL AND REGIONAL RESPONSES TO GLOBALIZATION AND MARGINALIZATION
CONFERENCE SUB-THEMES:

• The nature of Globalization and its effects, nationally, regionally and locally.
  
• Spatial and social responses to Globalization and Marginalization.
  
• The changing role of communication, technology and industrial and societal organizational structure in analyzing marginality.
  
• Examples of contingent, systemic, leveraged, collateral, and self-imposed marginality at various scales.
  
• Geographic marginality and the spatial organization of the world-economy: the role of free-trade and enterprise zones, TNCs, and international unions.
  
• hysical and societal dimensions of marginality at different scales, international, national, regional, metropolitan, in situ.
  
• Grassroots responses to marginalization.
  
• Environmental marginalization.

g.bellezza, 18th January 2006