Call for Papers
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2006
"Globalising Failures"
30 August - 1st September 2006
Royal Geographical Society with IBG, London
A session sponsored by the Economic Geography Research Group
Conveners: Diane Perrons, Gender Institute and Geography Department and Silvia
Posocco, Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science
Globalisation has been heralded as a source of doom and progress, and
sometimes both, depending on the differential situatedness and forms of
integration of people and communities. In both cases however the reality of
globalisation itself is not questioned. This session seeks to take a rather
different perspective by interrogating globalisation discourses and
experiences through the concept of 'failure', itself a cultural construct to
which may correspond a plurality of interpretative, ethical and aesthetic
strategies, as well as complex forms of social life. The session seeks to
attract papers which address some or all of the themes below. What is the role
and place of 'failure' in globalising processes? Can globalising policies
'fail'? How and with what effects and implications? What is produced through
these failures, socially, culturally and spatially? What forms does 'failure'
take and how is it imagined and experienced? What happens when the products of
globalising processes are disconnections, stoppages in flows or cuts in
networks? What is the place of 'failure' in theoretical, analytical and
ethnographic/empirical models deployed by people and knowledge communities to
make sense of globalising processes and processes of globalising failure? Can
'failure' constitute an analytical resource and a space or opportunity to
rethink objects of analysis, including globalising processes, and identify
alternative pathways?
Key words: globalisation, failure, networks, inequality, flows, ethnography
Paper proposals, in the form of a 200 word abstract (using the IBG form -
http://www.rgs.org/pdf/AC2006%20Abstract%20submission%20form.doc), should be
submitted to the session convenors by 26th January 2006. Please email Silvia
Posocco ([log in to unmask]) to submit an abstract or if you have any
questions about the session.
Full proposals of papers must be submitted to the RGS-IBG by 31 January 2006
using the Abstract Submission Form at: http://www.rgs.org/AC2006.
Dr Silvia Posocco
Gender Institute
LSE Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE UK
Tel. +44 (0)207 955 7771
email: [log in to unmask]
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