Hi everyone,
Please could you forward this message to anyone who you
think might be interested in contributing to the conference
session detailed below. Many thanks.
IBG/RGS 2001, Belfast 2-6th January.
Session Title: PUTTING PHILOSOPHIES OF GEOGRAPHY INTO PRACTICE
Full-day session with the History and Philosophy of
Geography Research Group and British Geomorphological
Research Group.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Recently we have been struck by the rather austere and
unworldly presentation of philosophy within geography.
Often this approach has little appeal for students, nor
does it give much sense of the historical and local
development of teaching, research or fieldwork in
individual geography departments. Outside of unofficial,
unpublished accounts, the grass-roots stories of these
institutional sites are seldom told. Given different
attitudes to philosophy and practice in human and physical
geography, we are also concerned with the ways in which
these stories might vary - despite an ongoing sense in
certain quarters that the discipline should remain as a
unitary endeavour.
The 'gulfs' between grand histories and localised
practices, and between different disciplinary specialisms,
are ones that we hope this session will begin to bridge. We
invite papers that address issues such as:
- cultures, traditions, politics and practices of
teaching/learning the history and philosophy of geography
- links between (sub)disciplinary discourses, the internal
practices of departments and popular geographical knowledges
- uses of space and time within, and outside, the
geography department (libraries, laboratories, lecture
theatres, common rooms, field courses…)
- staff or student strategies promoting or resisting
integration of the discipline
- the impacts of activities such as the RAE or QAA
benchmarking on departmental activities
- conflicts of interest between intellectual histories of
the discipline and the market-led motivations of
undergraduate 'customers'
Further details on this conference session can be accessed at:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~geo337/belfast.html
Please e-mail or post your proposed title and abstract (200
words max.) to:
Hayden Lorimer / Nick Spedding
Department of Geography and Environment
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 3UF
Tel: 01224 272339/273838
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Deadline for abstracts: 15th June 2001
IBG-RGS conference website: http://www.qub.ac.uk/geog/ibg.html
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