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Subject: Beyond the Academy? Final call for bookings
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:37:14 +0100
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Beyond the Academy? Critical geographies in Action
12-14 September 2001
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Convened by Duncan Fuller and Rob Kitchin
For booking forms and further information, access the conference web-site
at:
http://online.northumbria.ac.uk/faculties/ss/gem/conferences/beyond.html
FINAL PROGRAMME (subject to minor changes)
Opening Paper: 13.00-13.30
Duncan Fuller (UNN) and Rob Kitchin (NUI Maynooth)
Beyond the Academy: Critical Geographies in Action
Session 1: 13.30-15.30
Keith Halfacree (Swansea)
'I could only do wrong': academics, academic research and DiY culture
Chris Wilbert (Anglia)
'Say something constructive': Critique today
James DeFilippis (King's London)
What if 'the community' is wrong? Politics, ethics and insider/outsider
issues in participatory research.
Paul Routledge (Glasgow)
Relational ethics and critical engagement
Session 2: 16.00-18.00
Rachel Pain (Durham)
Whose account counts? Reflections on PRA and tyranny in the 'developed'
world.
David Crouch (Derby)
Working for empowerment and inclusivity: engaging in the everyday.
Pete North (LEPU)
Democratic evaluation: universities as research partners in regeneration.
(Like...hello!?!).
Rhys Evans (Aberdeen)
Making Discursive Interventions
Thursday 13th September
Session 3a: 8.30-10.30
Alan R. Townsend (Durham)
Learning from experience in local governance
Peter O'Brien and Andy Pike (Newcastle)
Working with the trade unions in regional development and governance in the
North-East of England
Richard Meegan (Liverpool) and Caitriona Ni Laoire (NUI Maynooth)
The politics of consultancy: engaging in policy evaluation
Andrew Collins, John Kirkby, Phil O'Keefe (Northumbria)
Learning by doing: lessons from disaster management
Session 3b: 8.30-10.30
Kelly Barclay (Wellington)
Pakeha and Praxis: locating theory and practice within an ethnicised
politics of difference in Aotearoa New Zealand
Paul Chatterton (Newcastle)
'Squatting is still legal, necessary and free'. A brief intervention in the
corporate city
Andrew Donaldson (Newcastle)
Nyns ov vy Sowsnek: research in the (mine)field with Cornish nationalists.
Session 4a: 11.00-13.00
Dave Featherstone (OU)
Engaging with the Imaginative Geographies of Counter-Globalisation Politics
David Wood (Newcastle)
The Changing Composition and Tactics of Anti-Globalization Activism from MAI
to GATS: an Actor-Network Interpretation.
Michael Duckett (Newcastle)
Oi! Recuperator! - An Anarchist Critique of Research
Marie Cieri (Rutgers)
Activists Speak Out: Reflections on the Pursuit of Change in America
Session 4b: 11.00-13.00
Andrew Jones (Birkbeck)
Thinking Beyond the Think-Tank: political research from an academic
background
Geoff O'Brien and Phil O'Keefe (Northumbria)
Politics and the Academy - Do they mix?
Mike Samers (Liverpool)
The justice of geography: managing the British asylum crisis.
Catherine White and Cathy Bailey (Northumbria)
Ethics in qualitative geography.
Session 5a: 14.00-16.00
Jane Tooke (Goldsmiths)
Making space for diversity: a transversal approach to community involvement.
Mike Kesby (St Andrews)
Beyond the participatory arena: a Foucauldian reading of empowerment?
Mark Goodwin, Dawn Armstrong-Esther (Aberystwyth), Jenny Deaville (Institute
of Rural Health), Marie Grannell (Powys and Ceredigion Health Promotion
Unit)
Linking Participation, Evaluation and Implementation: Some Key Issues in
Undertaking Action Research.
David Storey (Worcester)
Contract Research: Problems and Possibilities
Session 5b: 14.00-16.00
Judith Tsouvalis (Oxford)
Critical Immobility -The dilemmas posed by the Crisis of Representation
Michael Woods (Aberystwyth)
Critical Engagements with a Changing Countryside: A speculative agenda.
Andrew Jonas (Hull)
Conservation and death threats (working title)
Session 6: 16.30-18.00
Jenny Robinson (OU)
'The Practice of post--colonial Geography' or 'Can Geography be
Post-colonialised?'
Janet Townsend (Durham)
A feminist in the new NGO-mediated imperialism
Paul Cloke (Bristol)
Exploring boundaries of professional/personal practice and action: being and
becoming in Khayelitsha Township, Cape Town
Friday 14th September
Session 7: 9.00-10.30
Tim Angus, Ian Cook, James Evans et al (Birmingham)
Material culture and cyborg pedagogy
Gill Valentine (Sheffield)
Beyond queer theory: using academic work to challenge heteronormativity in
the classroom and queer educational practice
Tim Unwin (Royal Holloway)
Bridging the digital divide: partnership, ethics, and geographical praxis
Session 8: 11.00-13.00
Dave Sibley (Hull)
On being disengaged
Noel Castree (Manchester)
Border geography
Discussion: issues and agendas for an engaged critical geography
Duncan Fuller (Northumbria) and Rob Kitchin (NUI Maynooth)
Final words
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Dr. Duncan Fuller
Division of Geography and Environmental Management
Lipman Building
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
UK
Tel (Direct): (0191) 2273753
Mobile: 07946 401359
Tel (Division Office): (0191) 2273951
Fax: (0191) 2274715
'Beyond the Academy? Critical geographies in Action'
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
12-14 September 2001
Conference website -
http://online.northumbria.ac.uk/faculties/ss/gem/conferences/beyond.html
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