Second call for papers: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London,
28-31 August 2007
THE CRITICAL GEOPOLITICS OF TERROR AND SECURITY: DIALOGUES, DEBATES,
DIRECTIONS
Organisers: Dr Alan Ingram (University College London, UK) and Professor
Klaus Dodds (Royal Holloway, UK)
Sponsorship: Political Geography Research Group
Over five years have passed since the launching of the 'war on terror' as a
putative macro-securitisation of global affairs. In that time geographers
have engaged with the spatialities of terror and security according to a
variety of philosophical, conceptual and epistemological strategies. They
have explored and connected the materiality and affectivity of terror and
counter terror, security and insecurity across the spaces of bodies,
populations, homes, cities, nation-states, technologies, flows, borders,
geopolitical regions, institutions, knowledges, songs, buildings, media
texts and ecologies. They have critiqued the violence inherent in the
occupation, enclosure, rendition, incarceration, torture and surveillance
through which security is practiced, as well its more subtle, banal and
distributed modalities.
This session will take stock of this work and consider how critical
geopolitical analysis can better address the society of in/security and the
architectures of enmity that sustain it, and contribute to the building of
more hopeful spaces and futures. The session aims to pluralise discussion
with papers from a wide variety of places and positionalities. We
particularly welcome papers from outside the Anglophone world and global
West.
Papers might be informed by: political economy; feminism; postcolonialism;
biopolitics; deconstruction; embodiment; actor network theory;
non-representational theory; exception; hybridity; performativity;
discourse.
Please send titles and abstracts (max 200 words) to Alan Ingram
([log in to unmask]) by 31 January.
Dr Alan Ingram
Lecturer in Geography
Department of Geography
University College London
26 Bedford Way
London
WC1H 0AP
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 7581
Fax: +44 (0)20 7679 7565
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