Call for papers
A session on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin is planned for the
RGS-IBG conference in January 2001. The session is
supported by the Social and Cultural Geography Research
Group of the RGS-IBG. Please send enquiries to James Kneale
and abstracts to Julian Holloway (emails and addresses
below).
Spaces of Dialogism
Julian Holloway (Manchester Metropolitan University)
James Kneale (University of Exeter)
Since his ‘discovery’ by Western theorists like Todorov and
Kristeva, and the translation of many of his works into
English in the 1980s, Mikhail Bakhtin has become one of the
most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. His
writings on the philosophy of language, the ethics and
aesthetics of literature, and cultural history have proved
immensely attractive to academics across the humanities and
social sciences. While geographers have drawn on aspects
Bakhtin’s work, notably the carnivalesque, a fuller and
more sustained dialogue is possible.
This session aims to offer a chance for geographers and
others to engage more fully with the spatial elements of
Bakhtin’s dialogical thinking, whether as theoretical
explorations or as empirical studies informed by his ideas.
Though we welcome any ideas, a wide range of topics suggest
themselves: historical studies of spaces of carnival and
the disciplining of the modern self; contemporary
enactments of the carnivalesque and languages of the
marketplace; the chronotopic representation of time and
space in literature; spatial readings of Bakhtin’s
‘anti-linguistics’; his take on the notion of ‘position’
with regard to the mutual constitution of Self and Other;
polyphony in geographical research, writing, and teaching;
spatialities of ‘eventness’ and becoming; and dialogism in
hybrid and diasporic geographies.
Enquiries to James Kneale, School of Geography and
Archaeology, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes
Drive, Exeter, Devon, EX4 4RJ, email:
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Abstracts should be submitted to Julian Holloway,
Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences,
Manchester Metropolitan University, John Dalton Extension,
Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD, or email:
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James Kneale and Julian Holloway
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James Kneale
University of Exeter
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