Hi,
This CFP may be of interest.
----
au revoir
niall johnson
Email: [log in to unmask]
Department of Geography and Sidney Sussex College
University of Cambridge Cambridge
United Kingdom CB2 3EN United Kingdom CB2 3HU
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Call For Papers: Association of American Geographers Meeting, Los Angeles,
March 19-23, 2002
Empires of Science - Proposed Full Day Session
Organizers:
Matthew Farish, UBC
Richard Powell, Cambridge
It is now widely acknowledged that science is constituted by place-based
practices. Various commentators have, in turn, become interested in
questions surrounding spatiality and scientific knowledge. However, the
engagement with 'space' in science studies frequently relies on a simplistic
and de-politicized conception of geography. This may well be because the
critical lenses of science studies have rarely been turned on the
geographical sciences themselves.
The geography of science, in other words, must include the 'science' of
geography - from the geopolitics of cartography to the production of
knowledge and identity in the field. We request abstracts and papers that
address such issues. As a result, we hope the session will also bear
directly on critical histories of geography (in the broadest sense),
particularly those recent studies that extend textual analyses to encompass
accounts of corporeal networks, practices and performances.
Subjects for investigation might include:
- Science, geography, and imperialism
- Embodied accounts of scientific practices
- Power, identity and difference in fieldwork
- Spatial science in critical perspective
- Spaces of cross-cultural scientific encounters
- Technoscience and critical geopolitics
- Geographic technologies in historical perspective
- Traveling Science
Please direct all expressions of interest, queries and submissions to:
[log in to unmask]
or
[log in to unmask]
Deadline for Abstracts: July 31, 2001
|