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From: Patricia Noxolo
Sent: Wed 20/12/2006 4:41 PM
Subject: Call for Papers for RGS-IBG 2007 Foucaultian geographies, postcolonial spaces
CALL FOR PAPERS
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2007 28th-31st August 2007, at
the Royal Geographical Society with IBG, London
Session title: Foucaultian geographies, postcolonial spaces
Session convenor: Dr. Patricia Noxolo (Coventry University)
This session aims to explore the intersections between Foucaultian geographies and postcolonial theories and spaces. For at least the last ten years the tantalising spatial elements present within Foucault's work - disciplinary spaces, heterotopia, and more recently spaces of governmentality and security - have been developed and critiqued by geographers (see for example Legg, 2005; Philo, 2004; Larner, 2004; Noxolo, forthcoming) simultaneously with, but without reference to, an increasing interest in the creative spatio-temporal imaginings of postcolonial theory (see for example Nash, 2002; McEwan, 2003).
In particular, development geographers have begun to look to postcolonial theory as a way of thinking through the cultural and material histories and legacies of colonial encounters embedded within modern international and transnational relationships (Raghuram and Madge, 2006; Power, 2003; Kothari, 2005; Noxolo, 2006). At the same time there has been an increasing recognition of questions of governmentality and security within political geography (Duffield, 2001; Park, 2005; Bunnell and Coe, 2005; Ong, 2004), offering a range of theoretical frameworks to explore these neoliberal forms of power as they unfold in a wide range of globalised localities and relationships.
In bringing these two theoretical domains together, foucaultian and postcolonial, this session will open up a space to explore:
* The theoretical synergies and dissonances between Foucaultian and postcolonial theories of spatial relationships;
* The possibilities for applying Foucaultian and postcolonial theoretical spatialities in imperial, post-imperial and development contexts, for example in imagining the relationships between freedom and fear in historical and contemporary forms of power and rule;
* The power of a combination of Foucaultian and postcolonial theories in thinking through the complex power relations that are shaping globalisation and transnationalism in both richer and poorer regions of the modern world.
This call is therefore a warm welcome for papers from a wide range of sub-disciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives, including (but not exclusively):
* Politics
* Urban studies
* International relations
* Critical security studies
* Development
* Cultural studies
* History
* Anthropology
* Feminism
* Ethnic and racial studies
* Migration studies
For enquiries please contact Pat Noxolo at [log in to unmask]
To submit an abstract of no more than 200 words, either go to the RGS-IBG website (www.rgs.org <http://www.rgs.org/> ) and submit your abstract online when this service becomes available in January, or email your abstract to Pat Noxolo.
Dr. Patricia Noxolo,
Lecturer in Human Geography,
Department of Geography, Environment & Disaster Management,
Faculty of Business, Environment and Society,
Coventry University,
Priory Street,
Coventry CV1 5FB
United Kingdom
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