Call For Papers
Annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers 7 to 11 March
2006, Chicago, IL
STORIED SPACES: NEW RESEARCH ON NARRATIVE GEOGRAPHIES
Organiser: Gareth Hoskins, University of Wales-Aberystwyth
Discussant: Nick Entrikin, University of California-Los Angeles
An interest in narrative has done much to shed light on our understandings of geography. Studies
linking narrative to nation building (Bhabha 1990, Anderson 1991), the making of place (Tuan
1991), identity (Benhabib 1992, Somers 1994), the region (Sayer 1988, Passi 2001, MacLeod and
Jones 2001) the geographies of health (Kearns 1997), heritage (Crang 1994, DeLyser 2003), the
rural (Fish 2004, Law and Singleton 2004) and the in between (Entrikin 1991, JP Jones III and
Woodward 2004) give some indication of the breadth at which geographical debate has been
pushed forward by narrative-led inquiries.
While the diversity of topics subjected to a narratological approach suggests the concept’s
flexibility and robustness, there remains room for thinking about narrative and its iterative
relationship with space in a far more sustained and focussed manner. STORIED SPACES invites
reflection on this iterative relationship requesting papers that examine narrative’s epistemological,
ontological, representational and performative dimensions.
Contributions are encouraged from all areas of the discipline but should ideally address story-
space reciprocities. Discussion might include arguments, accounts, and explanations about …
Narrative’s productive capacities
How stories initiate new forms of engagement with place;
How place operates through narrative;
How place provokes story;
How practices of storytelling invoke and/or embed spatial configurations.
Narrative imaginations and geographical imaginations
Narrative and the negotiation of identity.
If interested in participating in this session please contact the convenor Gareth Hoskins
[log in to unmask] with an abstract of no more than 250 words by September 16th
For more information on the conference visit:
http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/
Dr Gareth Hoskins
Institute of Geography and Earth Science,
University of Wales Aberystwyth
SY23 3DB
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