Call for Papers for AAG San Francisco, April 17-21, 2007
Title: Race and State Development: Racialization and the (re)production
of Latin American Geographies
Organizer: Sharlene Mollett (Dartmouth College)
In this era of globalization, the simultaneous barrage of neo-liberal
imperatives for state development and the resurgence of indigenous and
Afro-Latin identities raises questions regarding prevailing
interconnections of race and space in Latin America. On the one hand,
elite and popular expressions of national identity as well as many state
development initiatives have responded to the revalorization of
indigenous and Afro-Latin citizenship through sanctioning of a
multicultural citizenry. Yet, the promises of racial equality purported
in the displacement of mestizaje by multiculturalism remain unfulfilled.
In many ways, state development initiatives continue to emphasize racial
difference whereby concomitant racial hierarchies are normalized and
form a profound part of a historically rooted “racialized common sense”
(Goldberg 1993); embodied in a myriad of policies, performances and
popular thought in Latin America. How do globalized approaches to state
development continue to (re) produce the racialization of space in Latin
America? This panel seeks to critically engage the spatialization of
race and the racialization of space in Latin America.
We invite papers from authors who focus on the way questions of race, as
broadly construed, inform the construction of Latin American geographies
embodied in the context of development initiatives such as eco-tourism,
land legalization, rural-urban migration, informal economies,
environmental conservation, natural resource extraction etc.
While the deadline for submission is not until October 26th, 2006, we
ask that you send notice of your (firm) interest in this paper session
by October 6th, 2006.
Abstracts may be sent subsequently but must be received by October 18th,
2006. Please send notice of interest, abstracts and any queries
regarding this session to [log in to unmask] or
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Sharlene Mollett, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Geography
Department of Geography
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
Tel. 603 646 0404
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Dr. Kate Swanson
Urban Studies Research Fellow
Geographical & Earth Sciences
University of Glasgow
www.ges.gla.ac.uk/staff/kswanson
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