- Presencial en las instalaciones del IIJ- UNAM (Aula "Dr. Guillermo Floris Margadant")
Programa
Proyecto del Plan de Desarrollo Institucional 2023-2027
4.25.1 Agenda de investigación en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales
que atienda los problemas nacionales a la luz de los objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible
25 de septiembre
Opening of the Conference
9:00-9:30 hrs.
Welcome Address
- The IACFS President, Eva Maria Belser
- The Director of the Institute of Legal Research of the UNAM, Mónica González Contró
- The Coordinator of Humanities of UNAM, Miguel Armando López Leyva
- The Director of the School of Political and Social Sciences of the UNAM, Alejandro Chanona Burguete
- The President of the Iberoamerican Institute of Constitutional Law, José Ma. Serna de la Garza
Session 1. General reflections on metropolitan governance in federal countries
Chair: Francisco Tortolero Cervantes (Institute of Legal Research, UNAM)
9:30-9:45
“Rebellious Cities: When Metros Challenge Federal Systems”, (Eva Maria Belser, University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
9:45-10:00
“The dialogical city: new notions of decentralized metropolitan governance”, (Nico Steytler, University of the Western Cape, South Africa and Karl Kössler, Institute for Comparative Federalism of Eurac Research Bolzano/Bozen, Italy)
10:00-10:15
“Metropolitan Governance: Challenges of Limited Intergovernmental Coordination in Latin American Metropolises”, (David Gómez Álvarez, Universidad de Guadalajara and Felipe Medel Terrones, Transversal)
10:15-10:30
“Empowering cities within the EU multilevel legal order”, (Erika Arban Melbourne Law School | University of Melbourne, Australia)
10:30-10:50
Discussion
Session 2. Metropolitan governance in the trade partners of North America
Chair: Patricia Popelier (University of Antwerpen, Belgium)
10:50-11:05 “Canadian Municipalities and the Challenges of the Trade War with the United States”, (Eric Champagne and André Lecours, University of Ottawa, Canada)
11:05-11:20 “Metropolitan Governance in the American Federal System: Complexity and Fragmentation”, (Joseph Marbach, Georgian Court University and the Center for the Study of Federalism and J. Wesley Leckrone, Widener University and the Center for the Study of Federalism, USA)
11:20-11:35 ““Property tax collection and fiscal cooperation in metropolitan areas of Mexico: capacities, inequalities, and governance models”, (Carlos Moreno Jaimes ITESO, Guadalajara, Mexico)
11:35-11:50 Discussion
Session 3. Metropolitan governance in Argentina and Brazil
Chair: Denisse Ortiz López (Institute of Legal Research, UNAM)
12:00-12:15 “Subnational Democracy and Metropolitan governance in Federal Countries. The Metropolitan Experience of Córdoba, Argentina, as a Model of Interjurisdictional Governance”, (Cristian Altavilla, CONICET / UNC / Universidad Siglo 21 - Instituto Internacional de Democracia y Derechos Humanos, Argentina)
12:15 - 12:30 “The Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires. Demographic, Economic, and Fiscal Challenges”, (Miguel Ángel Asensio and Florencia Martino, Institute of Federalism NALSS, Córdoba and UNL, Santa Fe, Argentina)
12:30 - 12:45“Metropolitan governance and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (2030 Agenda). The case of Brazil”, (Gilberto M. A. Rodrigues, Federal University of ABC and ConState, Brazil)
12:45 - 13:00 “Governance of the metropolitan region in the State of Rio de Janeiro: an analysis of the metropolis statute and the decision of the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court in constitutional challenge No. 1.842/RJ, (Talden Farias, Federal University of Pernambuco and Federal University of Paraíba and Arícia Fernandes Correia, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
13:00-13:15 Discussion
Session 4. Metropolitan governance in Europe
Chair: Alejandro Chanona Burguete (School of Political and Social Sciences, UNAM)
13:45-14:00 “Metropolitan Governments in Germany”, (Gisela Färber, German Research Institute for Public Administration, Speyer, Germany)
14:00-14:15 “Multilevel governance and metropolitan areas: emerging practices and innovations in Rome”, (Raffaella Coletti and Fabrizio Tuzi, National Research Council of Italy, Institute for the Study of Regionalism, Federalism and Self-Government CNR ISSIRFA, Italy)
14:15 - 14:30 “Limitations to Metropolitan Governance in Australia” (Tracy Beck Fenwick, Australian Centre for Federalism, Australia)
14:30-14:45 “Metropolitan governance in Spain: The Community of Madrid in the State of the Autonomous Regions: Centrality and the challenge of territorial balance”, (José Tudela, Mario Kölling, Fundación Manuel Giménez Abad, Spain)
14:45-15:00 “Explaining the absence of the metropolitan question in Spain’s State of the Autonomies”, (Albert Orta and Mireia Grau, Institut d’Estudis de l’Autogovern, Spain)
15:00-15:20 Discussion
Session 5. Metropolitan governance in India and Africa and other topics for debate
Chair: Eva Belser (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
15:40-15:55 “Reconfiguring Metropolitan Governance through Federal Funding Schemes? A Review of India’s Smart Cities Mission”, (Tathagata Chatterji, School of Human Settlements, XIM University, Bhubaneswar and Centre for Multilevel Federalism, New Delhi, India)
15:55-16:10 “The governance of metropolitan regions in Africa”, (Jaap de Visser & Tinashe Chigwata, Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
16:10-16:35 “Governing Federal Capital and its Surrounding in Ethiopia: The Case of Addis Ababa and Shagar Cities”, (Ketema Wakjira and Zemelak Ayele, Center for Federalism and Governance Studies of Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Yonatan Fessha, University of Western Cape, South Africa)
16:35-16:50 “Ten topics for debate concerning the governance of metropolitan zones in federal countries”, (José Ma. Serna, Institute of legal Research, UNAM).
16:50-17:15 Discussion
17:30-18:30 Introduction of the recipient of the Ronald Watts Award 2025
26 de septiembre
Session 6. Metropolitan governance in specific policy areas (I)
Chair: Mireia Grau (Institut d’Estudis de l’Autogovern, Spain)
9:00-9:15 “Competing Provincial Conceptions of Federalism in Canada: Intergovernmental Relations and Housing Policy in Montreal and Toronto as a case study”, (Chloe Bell and Johanne Poirier, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Canada)
9:15-9:30 "Social Housing in Metropolitan Areas and its implications for social mobility”, (Enrique Díaz-Infante Chapa, Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias”, Mexico)
9:30-9:45 “Brazilian States and the Inducing Role in Metropolitan Cooperation in Solid Waste Management”, (Marcelo Labanca Corrêa de Araújo, ConState Center and Catholic University of Pernambuco and Eduardo Grin, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil)
9:45-10:00 “Cities as Sites of Inclusion and Federal Contestation: Examining Social Assistance for Immigrants in Switzerland”, (Rekha Oleschak Pillai, Institute of Federalism, University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
10:00-10:15 “Metropolitan governance in Mexico: evolution and perspectives” (Hugo Concha Cantú, Institute of Legal Research)
10:15-10:35 Discussion
Session 7. Metropolitan governance in specific policy areas (II)
Chair: Carla Huerta Ochoa (Institute of Legal Research, UNAM)
10:55-11:10 “Sustainable Development Goal 6 in a Riverine Metropolitan Area. Copling Mexican municipal councils and river basin organizations”, (Daniel Armando Barceló Rojas, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, UNAM, México)
11:10-11:25 “The importance of water governance in Mexican metropolitan zones”, (Denisse Ortiz López, Doctoral student at Institute of Legal Research, UNAM, Mexico)
11:25-11:40 “Public Consortia and Horizontalized Metropolitan Governance in Brazil: A Mechanism for Cooperative Federalism”, (Leonam Liziero, ConState and State University of Paraíba, Brazil)
11:40-11:55 “(Un)Equal Needs, (Un)Even Capacities in the German Federal System: Insights from a Saxon Municipal Survey on Local Investment Demand since 2016” (Fabio Botta, Mario Hesse, Katharina-Sophie Dziurla, and Thomas Lenk, Institute of Public Finance and Public Management, Germany)
11:55-12:10 Discussion
Session 8. Cross-Border Metropolitan governance and global practices
Chair: Daniel Barceló Rojas (Institute of Legal Research, UNAM)
12:10-12:25 “Cross-Border Metropolitan Governance in a Federal Capital: the Case of Ottawa-Gatineau”, (Luc Turgeon, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa)
12:25-12:40 “Binational Environmental Governance in the Metropolitan Region of Cali-Baja”, (Gabriela Muñoz Meléndez, COLEF, Tijuana, México)
12:40-12:55 “Global Practices in Metropolitan Governance”, (Rupak Chattopadhyay and Diana Chebenova, Forum of Federations)
12:55-13:15 Discussion
13:15-13:30 Closing session
Se entregará constancia de asistencia con el 80% de participación
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