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RGS/IBG 2001
Postcolonial economic geographies?
Economic Geography Research Group Session convened by:
Ian Cook and Nick Henry (School of Geography and Environmental Sciences,
University of Birmingham) and Parvati Raghuram (Department of International
Studies, Nottingham Trent University)
The 'cultural turn' in economic geography has generated significant new
research on diverse economic activities. This session aims to highlight
work on economic life that has been particularly influenced by postcolonial
debates. Postcolonial studies has worked to destabilise dominant discourses
in metropolitan Europe/US, to challenge inherent assumptions, and to
critique the material and discursive legacies of colonialism. Economic
geographies have paid increasing attention to ethnic entrepreneurship,
diasporic trading networks, hybrid economies, and commodifications of
ethnicity and multiculture. These bodies of work obviously have a lot in
common, but how can they be more explicitly engaged? What might economic
geographies look like after postcolonial critique? What might postcolonial
studies look like with colonialism's material legacies and contemporary
economic relations made more prominent?
Abstracts of not more than 200 words (to arrive by 2 June 2000) should be
addressed to:
Nick Henry, School of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of
Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, +44 (0) 121 414 7262 Fax: +44
(0)121 414 5528,
email: [log in to unmask]
Any one interested in submitting papers on the above topics is invited to
contact any of the three convenors:
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Dr Ian Cook Tel: (0121) 414 6262 (direct)
School of Geography (0121) 414 5543 (office)
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston Fax: (0121) 414 5528
Birmingham B15 2TT
UK Web: http://www.bham.ac.uk/geography/
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