AAG 2006 CALL FOR PAPERS
Chicago 7th-11th March 2006
CRITICAL ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN GOVERNMENTALITY STUDIES & MARXIAN GEOGRAPHY
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Proposed AAG Organized Session (March 7-11th, 2006,
Chicago):
Title: “Critical Encounters Between Governmentality
Studies & Marxian Geography”
Over the past decade, Foucault’s concept of
‘governmentality’ has strongly influenced scholarship
in many academic disciplines, including geography.
Although the Foucauldian-inspired governmentality
literature has not produced a unified theoretical
approach or perspective, most studies of
governmentality share a common concern for critically
examining the role that ‘knowledge production’ has
played in the formation of modern governmental
practices (defined in a broad sense, including both
sovereign and non-sovereign forms of power). Marxian
geographers have also shown a renewed interest in
analyzing the role of the state in the production of
abstract space under capitalist rule, yet there
remains tremendous room and opportunity for a fuller
rapprochement between governmentality studies and
Marxian geography.
Marxian geography still provides critical analytical
entry points into understanding the production of
abstract spaces and the governmental knowledges that
depend on such spatial orderings. Similarly,
governmentality perspectives enhance and nuance
dialectical analyses of the production of space in
ways that strengthen contemporary Marxian geography.
The aim of this organized session is to bring together
scholars with an interest in engaging in a ‘critical
encounter’ between governmentality studies and
anti-essentialist Marxian geography. Matt Hannah, one
of the leading scholars of governmentality in
geography, has agreed to be the discussant for one of
the sessions. Historical, contemporary, and purely
theoretical analyses are all welcome. Potential topics
include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) non-sovereign forms of governmentality and the
ordering of space
(2) urban governmentality and capitalism in historical
perspective
(3) statistics, mapping, and spatial ordering as
technologies of power
(4) contradictory tendencies of governmentalities
(5) governmentality, geography, and the geo-coding of
the world
If you are interested in submitting a paper to this
session, please email your title and abstract by
September 30 to Reuben Rose-Redwood, Ph.D Candidate,
Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State
University, at [log in to unmask]
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