1st Call for papers
Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference 2007
28-31 August 2007, London
Session: Geographical imaginings of ‘Europe’ in the 21st century
Sponsored by: Post-Socialist Geographies Research Group
Convenors: Dr Craig Young (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Dr Duncan Light
(Liverpool Hope University, UK), Dr Kathy Burrell (De Montfort University, Leicester,
UK).
The future of ‘Europe’ - how it is constituted, imagined and institutionalised - is a
key question for the shape of the world and the fortunes of its citizens in the C21st.
2007 is a significant year for Europe, three years after the ‘accession-eight’ Eastern
and Central European states joined the European Union, with the addition in 2007 of
Romania and Bulgaria bringing the total EU member states to 27, and with heated debate
about future accession for Turkey, Croatia and other states. The enlarged Europe now
exhibits considerable variation in levels of development and quality of life. Linked to
these variations, and important for the future of European integration, are various
‘imaginings’ of ‘Europe’ within discourses such as European enlargement,
European citizenship, migration and development. This session invites papers which extend
geographical considerations of meanings, borders, boundaries and imaginings of
‘Europe’ in the C21st. With the eastern expansion of the EU can we still
conceptualise ‘Europe’ in relation to a ‘non-European, Eastern other’? What role
is played by the increasing presence of migrant labour and transnational networks and
flows and how these processes are imagined (eg. in media representations) and the position
of Europe within local, urban, national and global geopolitics? Papers on these issues are
welcomed from any sub-discipline of geography or ‘non-geographers’ as long as the
session aims are addressed. Inter-disciplinary papers are encouraged.
There will be an on-line abstract submission process available through the RGS website
from January 2007 - more details will follow. The deadline will be early 2007. Meanwhile
if you are interested in submitting an abstract for consideration for these sessions
please come up with a title and 200 word abstract and await another email about the
sessions or monitor the RGS website for details of submission.
If you would like more information about the sessions or to discuss your paper proposal
please contact the convenors as below:
Craig Young [log in to unmask]
Duncan Light [log in to unmask]
Kathy Burrell [log in to unmask]
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Manchester Metropolitan University
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