Apologies for cross-postings. Please find below the provisional =programme
for the 'Beyond the Academy? Critical Geographies in Action' conference
being held at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, 12-14th September
2001. We are now taking bookings for this conference - please download a
booking form from within the conference web-pages, situated at:
http://online.northumbria.ac.uk/faculties/ss/gem/conferences/beyond.html
and return this form, with payment, by the end of August 2001. Upon receipt
of your booking form and payment, you will be sent information on local
accommodation. Hope to see you in September for what should be a
stimulating event!
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Beyond the Academy? Critical Geographies in Action
Provisional Programme
Opening Paper
Duncan Fuller (UNN) and Rob Kitchin (NUI Maynooth)
Beyond the Academy?: Critical Geographies in Action
Session 1: 13.30-15.30
Keith Halfacree (Swansea)
'I could only do wrong': academics, academic research and DiY culture
Chris Wilbert (Anglia)
'Say something constructive': Critique today
James DeFilippis (King's College London)
What if 'the community' is wrong? Politics, ethics and insider/outsider
issues in participatory research.
Paul Routledge (Glasgow)
Relational ethics and critical engagement
Session 2: 16.00-18.00
Rachel Pain (Durham)
Whose account counts? Reflections on PRA and tyranny in the 'developed'
world.
David Crouch (Derby)
Working for empowerment and inclusivity: engaging in the everyday
Ray Hudson (Durham)
tbc
Ron Martin (Oxford)
Doing policy research: assessing the local impact of Labour's new deal
Session 3a: 8.30-10.30
Alan R. Townsend (Durham)
Learning from experience in local governance
Peter O'Brien and Andy Pike (Newcastle)
Working with the trade unions in regional development and governance in the
North-East of England
Richard Meegan (Liverpool) and Caitríona Ní Laoire (Queen's)
The role of geographers in policy evaluation: lessons from Merseyside
Andrew Collins, John Kirkby, Phil O'Keefe (Northumbria)
Learning by doing: lessons from disaster management
Session 3b: 8.30-10.30
Gavin Brown (King's College London)
Critical entanglements in East London: journeys of a queer geographer
through consultancy work and activism
Kelly Barclay (Wellington)
Pakeha and Praxis: locating theory and practice within an ethnicised
politics of difference in Aotearoa New Zealand
Paul Chatterton (Newcastle)
'Squatting is still legal, necessary and free'. A brief intervention in the
corporate city
Andrew Donaldson (Newcastle)
Nyns ov vy Sowsnek: research in the (mine)field with Cornish nationalists.
Session 4a: 11.00-13.00
Dave Featherstone (OU)
Engaging with the Imaginative Geographies of Counter-Globalisation Politics
David Wood (Newcastle)
The Changing Composition and Tactics of Anti-Globalization Activism from MAI
to GATS: an Actor-Network Interpretation.
Michael Duckett (Newcastle)
Oi! Recuperator! - An Anarchist Critique of Research
Marie Cieri (Rutgers)
Activists Speak Out: Reflections on the Pursuit of Change in America
Session 4b: 11.00-13.00
Andrew Jones (Birkbeck)
Thinking Beyond the Think-Tank: political research from an academic
background
Geoff O'Brien and Phil O'Keefe (Northumbria)
Politics and the Academy - Do they mix?
Rhys Evans (Aberdeen)
Making Discursive Interventions
Catherine White and Cathy Bailey (Northumbria)
Ethics in qualitative geography
Session 5a: 14.00-16.00
Jane Tooke (Goldsmiths)
Working with communities: the politics of participation
Mike Kesby (St Andrews)
Beyond the participatory arena: a Foucauldian reading of empowerment?
Mark Goodwin, Dawn Armstrong-Esther (Aberystwyth), Jenny Deaville (Institute
of Rural Health), Marie Grannell (Powys and Ceredigion Health Promotion
Unit)
Linking Participation, Evaluation and Implementation: Some Key Issues in
Undertaking Action Research
David Storey (Worcester)
Contract Research: Problems and Possibilities
Session 5b: 14.00-16.00
Marc Garrett (Furtherfield.org)
Reclaiming the Artists' Identity
Judith Tsouvalis (Oxford)
Critical Immobility -The dilemmas posed by the Crisis of Representation
Michael Woods (Aberystwyth)
Critical Engagements with a Changing Countryside: A speculative agenda.
Andrew Jonas (Hull)
Conservation and death threats (working title)
Session 6: 16.30-18.00
Jenny Robinson (OU)
'The Practice of post--colonial Geography' or 'Can Geography be
Post-colonialised?'
Janet Townsend (Durham)
A feminist in the new NGO-mediated imperialism
Paul Cloke (Bristol)
Exploring boundaries of professional/personal practice and action: being and
becoming in Khayelitsha Township, Cape Town.
Session 7: 9.00-10.30
Tim Angus, Ian Cook, James Evans et al (Birmingham)
Material culture and cyborg pedagogy
Gill Valentine (Sheffield)
Beyond queer theory: using academic work to challenge heteronormativity in
the classroom and queer educational practice
Tim Unwin (Royal Holloway)
Bridging the digital divide: partnership, ethics, and geographical praxis
Session 8: 11.00-13.00
Dave Sibley (Hull)
tbc
Noel Castree (Manchester)
'Border geography'
Discussion: issues and agendas for an engaged critical geography
Duncan Fuller (Northumbria) and Rob Kitchin (NUI Maynooth)
Final words
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Dr. Duncan Fuller
Division of Geography and Environmental Management
Lipman Building
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
UK
Tel (Direct): (0191) 2273753
Mobile: 07946 401359
Tel (Division Office): (0191) 2273951
Fax: (0191) 2274715
'Beyond the Academy? Critical geographies in Action'
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
12-14 September 2001
Conference website -
http://online.northumbria.ac.uk/faculties/ss/gem/conferences/beyond.html
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