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1162 | | Residential (im)mobility in life course perspective – facets of residential change in Central and Eastern Europe in conceptual, empirical and methodological critical reflection. | Katarzyna Kajdanek (1)

This session invites proposals that advance our understanding of residential mobility and immobility in the life course perspective in Central and Eastern Europe in ways that are conceptually and theoretically rich, methodologically provoking, and empirically sound. Due to the scarcity of large sets of quantitative data from panel studies that would allow for a more systematic analysis of life courses of the residentially mobile in CEE (for comparison in the UK, the Netherlands, Sweden see: (Coulter et al., 2020; Falkingham et al., 2016; Fedorova et al., 2022; Fischer & Malmberg, 2001; Geist & McManus, 2008; Horowitz & Entwisle, 2021), this session aims to bring together researchers interested in life course perspectives applied to residential mobility in CEE.
The framework for this session is built on two pillars: 1)       Concept of synchronous (concurring) urbanisation (Hierse et al., 2017; Humer et al., 2022; Smiraglia et al., 2021) which addresses and increasing gap between the traditional urban spatial cycle model (Rossi, 1980; van den Berg & Klaassen, 1980) and complex urban–regional forms, functions, and flows that take place in a post-modern realm. Due to changes in economic, demographic, social, and cultural arenas, not only do cities become embedded in multicentric metropolitan and networked regional structures, but also urban–suburban–rural relations are complemented with complex urban–urban (or core–core) relationships, and even hinterland–hinterland relations.
2)      Life course perspective (in contrast to more traditional life cycles) allows us to capture the inter- and intra-individual facets of residential mobility as a biographical experience happening at various life stages. Residential (im)mobility in life course perspective is seen as structured by life events occurring (or not) at a specific time and in a specific order (Elder, 1998). Social geography and urban sociology perspectives on the life course highlight cultural factors, social circumstances, and social interactions as components of change, essential for understanding residential trajectories (Bernard, 2022; Bernardi et al., 2019; Elder, 1998; Mayer, 2018; Mulder & Hooimeijer, 1999; Stockdale & Catney, 2014; Webster et al., 2022). Such a deepened understanding of residential mobility, as one of the key biographical careers, becomes even more important in times of overlapping crises (polycrises) and acceleration of social processes. 
Abstracts for papers looking into facets of concurring urbanization (suburbanization, counterurbanization, and reurbanization) using life course perspective, and applying qualitative and/or quantitative approaches and methods and focusing on CEE urban, metropolitan, and regional settings, also in comparison to western European structures, are welcome. The session welcomes presentations with clear reference to the main themes of the session, with relevant theoretical / conceptial, empirical and methodological contribution.The session will be held in English. Welcome!

Katarzyna Kajdanek (1)
(1) University of Wrocław, Chair of Urban and Rural Sociology

 
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1160 | 292 | Future socio-spatial suburban development in the context of the back-to-the-city movement. Evidence from six functional urban areas in Poland. | Katarzyna Kajdanek

This presentation investigates the reasons for the back-to-the-city movement, as they pertain to suburban quality of life, and the ensuing potential for socio-spatial transformations of suburban areas. This qualitative study, which employs a qualitative method based on a two-pillar conceptual framework, focuses on returnees from suburbia to six major cities in Poland. The first pillar is reurbanization in its residential aspect, particularly the process of re-emigration from suburban areas to the central city. (Glatter, Siedhoff 2008; Ourednicek 2015). The second pillar is a life-course view on the return to the city, emphasising its temporal, multi-scalar, and social dynamics as they unfold over a lifetime (Bernardi et al. 2019). (Elder et al. 2003; Falkingram et al. 2020; Mulder&Hooimeijer 1999, Coulter&van Ham 2013). Some quantitative and qualitative study on selective in-migration in Polish and Czech cities has already been conducted. (Haase et al. 2012). However, as an example of an ECE country, return mobility from suburbs to inner-cities in Poland remains an unstudied occurrence. Thematic coding was used to uncover connections between psychological dispositions, life domain performance, societal subsystems, and the experience of fleeing the suburbs for the city in the study’s empirical material, which consisted of 46 semi-structured interviews. _x000D_
The presentation shows how complex features of suburban liveability in Poland (determined by macro-processes such as spatial planning and housing policies, as well as mezzo-level contexts such as pollution, transportation, and public service availability) contribute to housing stress, create potential for future small-scale change in the suburbs, and gives visibility to residential actors, such as: urbanites by choice (Buzar et al. 2007), urbanites by necessity, transitory urbanites (Haase et al. 2012), temporary suburbanites (Kopecna, Spackova 2012).

Katarzyna Kajdanek
University of Wrocław, Institute of Sociology

 
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