*** CALL FOR PAPERS *** RGS-IBG 2002 BELFAST ***
HPGRG (HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF GEOGRAPHY RESEARCH GROUP)
HALF-DAY SESSION:
"SENSES & SENSIBILITIES"
ORGANISERS: Mark Paterson, University of Bristol
([log in to unmask]) and John Wylie, University of Sheffield
([log in to unmask])
The aim of this session is to explore the historical and ongoing
production of geographies of senses and sensibilities. Building upon
the recent and growing interest in the role of bodily practices and
sensations in the production of geographical knowledges, the session
seeks to address issues concerning the differentiation of the senses
within specific cultural and historical arenas. This in turn raises
questions regarding the ordering of human sensibilities and the
persistent valorisation of certain ways of knowing the world. We are
especially interested in both theoretical and empirical discussions of
how places, sites and landscapes, both 'real' and 'virtual', come to be
configured and experienced within the terms of particular
sensibilities, particular somatic and kinaesthetic regimes.
Some key themes which we hope to highlight and discuss in the session
are:
· Historical constructions and contestations of the senses.
· The role of the senses in producing culturally and historically
specific conceptualisations of subjectivity and space/time
· Philosophical discourses of the senses beyond the visual.
· Aurality, orality and tactility in the production of spaces of
dwelling and inhabitation.
· 'Abilities' and 'disabilities': sensing geographical worlds.
· The scripting of sensuous geographies. How can be sensibilities
be represented?
· Sensuous technologies: digital augmentation and immersion.
Please send enquiries to John or myself at the email addresses listed
above. Interdisciplinary work will be encouraged and we urge you to
forward this call for papers to anyone who you think may be interested.
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Mark Paterson
School of Geographical Sciences
University of Bristol
(0117) 928 8809
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