Berkeley Journal of Sociology
24.10.2008, Berkeley
Deadline: 24.10.2008

The Berkeley Journal of Sociology Call for Papers

VOLUME 53: CHANGING URBAN SPACES

Modern history is frequently characterized as being driven by the
dynamic transformation of urban centers.  The evolution of the city,
however, has consistently exploded its predetermined limits and betrayed any imagined narrative of progress or modernization.  The push of urbanization on its rural, suburban, or exurban frontier meets the equally formidable pull of supposedly external forces of trade, migration, and the natural environment.  The 53rd volume of The Berkeley Journal of Sociology is soliciting new and innovative studies of the construction of urban space in the effort to explore mechanisms for the symbolic and geographic division of contemporary society.

The BJS invites submissions of well-researched and theoretically
interesting papers relating to changing urban spaces by graduate
students and untenured faculty in sociology or other disciplines. While we accept both theoretical and empirical papers, original empirical work is especially encouraged. Papers may address any context or empirical site that contributes to sociological understanding in this area.
Examples of possible topics include, but are not limited to:     
    - Urban Dynamism
    - Cities and National Economic Expansion
    - What is a city?
    - Urban Experts
    - Urban Retrenchment
    - Gentrification
    - Geographic Space vs. Social Space
    - Urban Status Markets
    - Urban Class Structure
    - The Global City
    - Urban Ecology
    - The Ghetto
    - The Slum
    - Suburbanization
    - Migration and Urbanization
    - Urban Ethnicities
    - Demolition and Eviction
    - Informal Housing
    - Squatters’ Movements
    - The Future of the Planned City
    - Foreign Direct Investment and Urban Change


Submissions for Volume 53 are due October 24th, 2008. Papers submitted will be considered for presentation at the 9th annual BJS conference in March 2009. Please see the Guide for Contributors below. Submissions may be sent as an email attachment to thejournal@berkeley.edu, or two copies
may be mailed to:

Berkeley Journal of Sociology
Department of Sociology
410 Barrows Hall #1980
University of California Berkeley
CA 94720-1980

Guide for Contributors
General Contributions may be in the form of articles and review
essays. Each submission will be read by at least two members of the editorial board, and substantive comments will usually be returned, whether the work is accepted or not. The BJS is interested in contributions of critical analysis of important contemporary issues. A special effort is made to publish empirical research by graduate students and untenured faculty. Potential
articles should be free of jargon or references which might make the contribution inaccessible to an audience outside the author’s
particular specialty or theoretical school. Manuscripts to be returned must be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Articles appearing in the BJS are indexed in Sociological Abstracts and the Alternative Press Index. We welcome both electronic and paper submissions. The former must be for Word 6.0/95 or later, and may be submitted on disk (PC but not Mac) or
as an e-mail attachment (which may be sent from a Mac) to
thejournal@uclink4.berkeley.edu. Paper submissions should include two copies, with a cover page listing authorship, institutional affiliation, article title, acknowledgements, and the date of submission. Since manuscripts are reviewed anonymously, the author should be identified only on the cover page, and not in the manuscript itself. Provide the title only as identification on the manuscript. Enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard so we can acknowledge receipt. All manuscripts must be typed and double spaced with ample margins on all sides. All text, including titles, headings, and footnotes, should be in Times New Roman, and mixed-case where appropriate. The inclusion of an abstract is
appreciated.  Format  In general, we recommend that submissions not have too complex a hierarchy of sections and subsections. In the case of a heading, the title should be separated from the preceding paragraph by two (2) lines, and by one (1) line from the proceeding paragraph. The heading should appear in 12-point boldface type, left justified. In the case of a sub-heading, the title should be separated from both preceding and proceeding paragraphs by a single line. The sub-heading should appear in
12-point italicized type, left justified. Block quotes, used for long quotes, should be 10-point, full justified, and not indented. The block quote should be set off from the rest of the article by a single line both before and after. The margins should be set in another half (½) inch on both the left and right sides. Footnotes should be used  for concise supplementary comments, not citations. Any long or especially complicated supplementary material should be included in appendices rather than footnotes, or made available from the author on request. Table and figure titles should be normal text, mixed case, and centered. Tables should be numbered consecutively throughout the article and may
be typed on separate sheets. In the latter case, insert a note at the appropriate place in the text. (For example, “Table 2 about here.”) Each table must include a descriptive title and headings to the columns. Illustrations submitted for the final draft should be professionally drafted on white paper in black ink, and ready for photo-reproduction. Figures should be capable of legible reduction to 5.5 by 8.5 inches. They should be numbered consecutively, and include separate captions.

Reference Format
In the text, all references should be identified by author’s last name, year of publication, and pagination where needed. Identify later citations in the same way as the first. If there are more than two authors of a single work, use all names in the first citation, and afterward use “et al.” Citations should follow the following format: (<author> <year>: <pagenumber>). If no page numbers are specified, the citation then looks like: (<author> <year>). If there are multiple citations, separate each author/year/page number combination with a semicolon (“;”) and a space. References come at the end of the paper and should be prefaced with the heading “References” in 12-point boldface type, left justified, three lines after the end of the article body. The reference entries themselves should be formatted in accordance with the fourteenth edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, which is also used by the American Sociological Review, and summarized in Turabian (1996). (Note that previous to Volume 44 2000, the BJS used a different reference format.) For further clarification, please see either the articles appearing in this issue or:

Turabian, Kate. 1996. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. 6th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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