I would like to invite any of you that can make it to come to a meeting on
Geopolitics being held at Cambridge at the start of next year. Gerry Kearns
Symposium on Geopolitics
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
Friday January 12 2007
10.45 Coffee
Geopolitics of the Post(-First-World-)War World
11.00 Jeremy Crampton, Department of Geosciences, Georgia State University,
'Maps, race and Foucault: Eugenics and territorialization following World
War I'
Jeremy Crampton is Associate Professor in the Department of Geosciences at
Georgia State University. He is the author of The political mapping of
cyberspace (Edinburgh University Press, 2003). He is also the editor of
Space, knowledge and power: Foucault and Geography (Aldershot: Ashgate,
2007) and the author of dozens of articles on the philosophy of mapping and
GIS, and on the history of the political uses of cartography.
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11.30 Discussion
11.45 Gerry Kearns, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge,
'Mackinder in South Russia 1920: Liberal and colonial imperialisms'
Gerry Kearns is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University
of Cambridge and has published articles on medical geography and political
geography. He is currently completing a book on Geopolitics and empire: The
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12.15 Discussion
12.30 Lunch
Geopolitics after 9-11
13.30 Sarah Radcliffe, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge,
'The geopolitics of post-9/11 security and Andean indigenous people'
Sarah Radcliffe is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography,
Cambridge. She is the editor of several collections on the development
geography of Latin America including Culture and development in a
globalizing world: Geographies, actors and paradigms (Routledge, 2006),
Remaking the nation: Place, politics and identity in Latin America
(Routledge, 1996) and Viva: Women and popular protest in Latin America
(Routledge, 1993). She has published dozens of articles on aspects of
development in Latin America including on postcolonialism, neoliberalism,
transnational identities, gender and indigenous peoples' politics. She is
currently co-editor of the flagship journal, Progress in Human Geography.
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14.00 Discussion
14.15 Tea
Geopolitics of state-making after the Cold War
14.30 Denisa Kostovicova, Department of Government, London School of
Economics, 'State-making and the problem of weak states'
Denisa Kostovicova is Lecturer in Global Politics in the Department of
Government at the LSE. She is the author of Kosovo: The Politics of
Identity and Space (Routledge, 2005) as well as of articles on the
geopolitics of the Kosovo and Republika Srpska. She is part of the research
group on Global Civil Society at LSE is studying the dynamics of attempts
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15.00 Discussion
15.15 Gerard Toal, Department of Government and International Affairs,
Virginia Tech, 'Localized geopolitics: State breaking and state making in
Bosnia-Herzegovina'
Gerard Toal/Gearóid Ó Tuathail is Professor of Government and International
Affairs at Virginia Tech, City Campus. He is the author of Critical
geopolitics: The politics of writing global space (London: Routledge,
1996). He has edited several important collections on Geopolitics including
A geopolitics reader (Routledge, 1998 and 2006), Rethinking geopolitics
(Routledge, 1998) and A companion to Political Geography (Blackwell, 2004).
He has published dozens of articles mainly on the discursive analysis of
particular geopolitical disputes-most recently about Bosnia-Herzogovina.
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15.45 Discussion
16.00 Tea
16.15 General Discussion
16.45 Disperse
Everyone welcome. If you find it convenient to do so, please let me know
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coffees, teas and the sandwiches etc for lunch. There is no registration
fee and whether or not you have been able to let me know in advance, just
turn up if you fancy attending.
Gerry Kearns, 12 December 2006
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