Posted on behalf of Caroline Bressey:
Mapping Blackness
Call for Papers
Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Boston
15-19 April 2008 http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2008/papers.htm
Convenor s Caroline Bressey, UCL and Paul Goodwin, Goldsmiths College
Geographical metaphors and practices of mapping have increasingly infused
studies of Blackness in the Americas and Europe. These have ranged from
theoretical interventions, the historical mapping of the Black presence,
issues around health, social, educational and economic life, and creative
interventions around Black identity. This session seeks to discuss how
these modes of representation have impacted upon the production and
mobilisation of Blackness. It also seeks to ask how Black identity has been
constituted and reconstituted through these debates.
Possible paper topics include:
- The use of maps by artists exploring aspects of Black history and
contemporary identity.
- Historical geographies of the Black Presence in Europe, the Americas, and
the Pacific.
- Recent mapping projects undertaken by galleries, archivists and community
groups.
- The use of spatial metaphors in developing geographical imaginations of
the African Diaspora.
- The mapping of inequality and its impact on anti-racist projects.
- The possibilities for GIS technologies in mapping Blackness.
Participants may wish to:
- Present findings from historical or contemporary research projects.
- Consider the methodological and theoretical impact of the Black
experience on geographical theory, urban theory and the emerging
interdisciplinary field of ‘spatial practices’ and debate.
- Discuss the methodological and practical problems (within the academy and
beyond) of conducting such research.
- Discuss the changing media representations of Blackness post-9/11.
Please send an abstract of no more than 200 words to both Caroline Bressey
[log in to unmask] and Paul Goodwin [log in to unmask]
by 15 October 2007.
Dr Caroline Bressey
ESRC Research Fellow
Department of Geography
University College London
26 Bedford Way
LONDON
WC1H OAP
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