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This is a revised second call for papers for the AAG 2002 in LA for
the following session:
Spaces at the Intersections of 'Race' and Sexuality
Convenors: Camila Bassi, Perry Carter and Tobie Saad
Application Deadline: 1 August, 2001
This session aims to address the links and relationships between
the geographies of sexualities and the geographies of racialisations
- interrogating the constructed narratives of 'race' and sexuality
through a more fluid and situated inquiry into their seemingly infinite
imbrications. Often, intellectual engagements with identity and the
self strategically essentialise racial and sexual categories.
Seemingly pragmatic, with regard to the goal of framing an
argument/inqury, such essentialisations obfuscate the mututally
constitutive nuances of both 'race' and sexuality. This is echoed in
a range of research that indicates both the need to challenge the
ethnocentricity of enquiries into sexuality and space, and the
potentiality of 'new territories' in redefining geographical studies of
'race' and sexuality.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Constructions of sex, gender, race and "the erotic" across the
globe;
Technologies of raced and sexed self;
Homo-alterity;
Racial/sexual hybridity;
Anti-essentialist methods of race/sex research;
Identity and concurrent performances of 'race' and sex;
Sexuality as a means of organizing racial identity;
Raced/sexed bodies as sites of discipline;
Sexual representation of the racial other;
Globalisation and sexual identifications/experiences;
'Whiteness' and sexuality;
The racialisation of sexualities (queer/heterosexual/etc.);
The sexualisation of 'race';
Commercial gay space as a racialised space;
Embodiment and hybridity;
Trespassing boundaries: passing and closet epistemologies AIDS
in the third world;
Commodification of 'desire';
Consuming 'a bit of the other': capitalism,eroticism and the exotic
other;
Constructions of non-Western alterity and allure;
The sex tourist;
International mail-order brides;
Third world sex labor and sex slavery;
Marking boundaries: women at the space between races;
Inclusion/exclusion of sexual and 'racial' identities within differential
sexual and 'racial' spaces;
Negotiating multi-identifications relating to 'race', sexuality, class,
gender, age, etc.;
Music as a modality for racial and sexual identity.
We enthusiastically encourage submissions from individuals in
every subdiscipline of geography and from folks outside of the
discipline.
For those in the US: Please submit your abstract and
full contact details to Tobie Saad OR Perry Carter at the addresses
below, or email an attachment to [log in to unmask], by 1st
August 2001.
For those in the UK: Please submit your abstract and
full contact details to Camila Bassi at the address below, or
email an attachment to [log in to unmask], by 1st August
2001.
For those outside the US/UK: Submit to any of the above, by 1st
August 2001.
Camila Bassi
F-Floor Postragraduates
Geography Department
Sheffield University
Winter Street
Sheffield
S10 2TN.
Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 7956
Fax: (+44) (0)114 279 7912
Perry Carter
Texas Tech University
Department of Economics and Geography
Lubbock,TX 79409-1014
Tel: (806) 742 3838
Fax: (806) 742 1137
Tobie Saad
University of Kentucky
Department of Geography
1457 Patterson Office Tower
Lexington, KY 40506-0027
Tel: (859) 257 2931
Fax: (859) 323 1969
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