Apologies for cross posting
CALL FOR PAPERS
AAG Chicago 7th-11th March 2006
Session title: Categories in Human Geography
In recent years the use of all types of categories in academic research
has come under substantial scrutiny. The boundaries between different
scales, classes, races, ethnicities, nationalities, and genders are
being broken down as their multiplicity, hybridity, and
intersectionality are increasingly understood. As each category is
questioned, and its socially constructed roots exposed, their utility in
academic research has become uncertain at best. What role should
categories play in geographic research? Is it necessary to maintain a
distinction between categories of practice, those that are used and
understood by people in everyday life, and categories of analysis used
in academic research? If so, how is this distinction maintained?
This session seeks papers that investigate the theoretical basis of
categories in geographical research, case studies that flesh out how
these schemes of classification and identification operate in everyday
life, and research that explores the tension inherent in geographic
concepts that operate as both categories of practice and analysis.
Potential session participants are encouraged to contact Reece Jones
([log in to unmask]) or Adam Moore ([log in to unmask]).
Reece Jones
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Madison
550 Science Hall, 550 N. Park St.
Madison, WI 53706 USA
http://champlain.geography.wisc.edu/~reecejones/
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