Final call for papers - if you're interested, please get in touch by the
end of today - thanks.
AAG 2005 DENVER April 5-9, 2005
Geographies of Affect
The empirical encounter is central to geographical research. Present
theoretical currents emerging out of non-representational theory,
performative understandings of the social and further unravellings of Actor
Network Theory, have destabilized what such an encounter looks like and is
comprised of. There is a politics here both in the way that this opens up
new opportunities for figuring knowledge and in the way that this refigures
traditional political markers. Perhaps a key conceptual intervention here
has pivoted around what has been termed the ‘affective’ principally defined
as a “series of inhuman or presubjective forces and intensities” (Spinks,
2001).
These issues have led towards a research focus around the concrete,
embodied knowledges of the body, with a particular attention being paid to
the ethical coping strategies that everyday engagements draw out of us
(Varela, 1999); to the less than certain ways in which we know the world,
touching upon how things are evidenced to us, how we are called to be
witness to, document and make sense of, the world’s more intangible
aspects; and how belief and faith in and through practice scripts our
ongoing. Above all then, how in all this there is a world of affect,
punctual yet continuous, which speaks of an unactualized, perhaps
unsayable, yet vitally real realm.
Contributions to this session are invited from those researchers who are
attempting to take up the challenge of the affectual world, which situates
the research encounter outside the sociolinguistic fixings that have
generally come to order our academic understandings.
Please send expressions of interest as soon as possible to Jennifer Lea
([log in to unmask]) or JD Dewsbury ([log in to unmask]).
Abstracts of no more than 250 words are required by 14th October 2004.
The AAG abstract specifications can be found at the following address:
http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/Denver2005/abstract.cfm
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