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Subject: Call for Papers
Practicing Historical Geography Session
AAG Conference, New Orleans, March4-8, 2003
Organizers: Katherine Jones, Matthew Kurtz, Rebecca Sheehan
Practicing Historical Geography I:
Racialized Bodies and the Making of Historical Geographies
As Toni Morrison wrote in 1992, we live in a thoroughly racialized
world, and the processes of racialization have taken on added complexity
and import since September 11th. To better understand these processes, and
our roles as embodied scholars within and against these processes, we wish
to convene a session of historical geographies of race and racism. We seek
to highlight an eclectic mix of critical theories and methodologies that
can be used to build empirically-rich historical geographies of race. To
facilitate dialogue about scholarly practice and race, we invite papers
that together employ diverse methods for research and presentation in
historical geography.
That said, we set parameters with three qualifications. First, we
ask that the presenters each address, in part, the openings and closures
that emerge when their methodological approach is applied within a chosen
context. Second, we ask that the papers seek critical, potentially
destabilizing approaches regarding historical geographies of race and
racism. Here we define "critical" in a broad sense, as we see it as a
highly contested term. Third, we ask that all the presentations work, to
some degree at least, at the scale of the body: how bodies specifically
shaped, were shaped by, and placed within, larger racialized social
relations and practices on an everyday basis. We believe that the third and
last qualification for papers recalls a tradition where (as commentators
reminded us last year in Los Angeles) historical geographers focused on
"everyday life" well before social history became a prominent field, and
where broadly "historical" geographers continue to highlight the everyday
and the otherwise unnotable in very different ways.
Empirical historical geographies of race in this session can be framed
around issues that include, but are not at all limited to, the following:
racialized bodies and past knowledge production;
race, contemporary theory, and historical methods;
race, traces, and archival records;
racialized bodies of researchers and researched;
racialization, gender, and sexuality;
racialization and class formations;
racialization and colonialism;
racialization, image, and corporate practices;
racialization in/of a landscape;
racialization, mobile bodies, and emplacement;
racialization and embodied temporalities
Please respond to either Rebecca Sheehan ([log in to unmask]) or Matthew Kurtz
([log in to unmask]), should you have questions or a tentative proposal.
Finalized abstracts will be due 20 August, 2002.
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