Just a reminder to you all about
The Geography and Politics of Fear
A One Day Conference at UCL Students' Union, Bloomsbury,
London
July 3rd 2001, 9.30am - 5pm
Convenors: Pete Shirlow, Rachel Pain and the Conference
of Socialist
Economists (Capital & Class)
Emphasis, within this workshop, will be placed upon the ways
in which
discourses of fear are manufactured, through state politics, civil
society
and cultural belonging, with the effect of reflecting and
reinforcing the
exercise of power. Key themes include:
the definition and utilisation of "fear" within hegemonic
discourses;
the ways in which "fear" is constructed around and
constructs certain;
socialidentities, reflected in experiences of public spaces,
private;
spaces,national and local territories and environments;
representationsof fear in relation to racism, homophobia,
sexism;
ethno-sectarianismand contemporary patterns of social
exclusion.
The workshop is intended to reflect interesting recent work,
which has a
more strongly political orientation and implication. It will include
critiques informed by radical perspectives such as socialist,
feminist,
anti-racist and queer theory.
Contributors:
Betsy Stanko- (Royal Holloway)- Discussant
John Gold and George Reville (Oxford Brookes
University)=96
Exploring Landscapes of Fear: marginality, spectacle and surveillance
Rachel Pain (Durham University) =96Youth, age and the representation of
fear
Pete Shirlow =96(University of Ulster)-Spaces of Fear and the
Perpetuation of Ethno-Sectarianism in Belfast
Molly Warrington =96 (University of Cambridge) Domestic violence and
fear
Colin Webster =96 (University of Teeside) Construction of race and fear/
Leslie Moran-(Birkbeck University of London) and Beverley Skeggs
(Manchester University) - The gender and spaces of fear
Phil Hubbard- (University of Loughborough)- Dealing with difference:
excursions into the city at night.
Additional details are at
{ HYPERLINK http://www.science.ulst.ac.uk/geog/fear }http://www.science.ul=
st.ac.uk/geog/fear
or email
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Dr Pete Shirlow
Senior Lecturer
School of Environmental Studies
University of Ulster, Coleraine
BT52 1SA
Northern Ireland
Tel: +44 028 7032 4687
Fax: +44 028 7032 4911
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