Call for papers:
RGS/IBG Annual Conference, 28-31 August 2007
Session title: Alain Badiou and Human Geography
Convenor: Marcus A. Doel, Swansea University, UK <[log in to unmask]>
Sponsored by: Social & Cultural Geography Research Group
Session abstract: Our collective engagement with French theorists has
transformed Human Geography, and our research would be impoverished
without the benefit of encountering the ideas of Louis Althusser, Jean
Baudrillard, Michel Callon, Hélène Cixous, Manuel Castells, Michel de
Certeau, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray,
Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan, Bruno Latour, and Henri Lefebvre, amongst
others. This session will consider the potential for Human Geography of
Alain Badiou, who is reputedly one of the most insightful, original, and
radical thinkers in France today; not least because of his singular re-
articulation of philosophy and mathematics, inflected by politics and
psychoanalysis, which poses a profound challenge to the forms of
poststructualism, actor-network theory, and non-representational theory
that many human geographers have recently made their own. As so many
theoretical trajectories within the discipline converge on the notion of
multiplicity—frequently under the aegis of association, difference, flow,
heterogeneity, and network—, one of the most significant advances that
Badiou might offer us is a rigorous and explosive account of the multiple,
the subject, and the event. The session will introduce Badiou’s thought
and assess its potential for advancing research agendas in human
geography. Offers of papers are welcomed from enthusiasts, critics, and
sceptics.
If you would like to offer a paper, please let me know by English love
day: 14 February 2007. The gist of a title and an abstract would be
helpful, but an early expression of interest will suffice.
Marcus Doel
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Professor Marcus A Doel
Director of Research and Professor of Human Geography
Centre for Urban Theory
School of the Environment and Society
Swansea University
Singleton Park
Swansea SA2 8PP
United Kingdom
Tel 0 11 44 (0)1792 513090
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