Please find below a second call for papers for the 2008 RGS-IBG Conference,
London, 27-29th August.
The promise and problematic of Technology: (Re)thinking bodies, spaces and
times.
Organisers: James Ash and Sam Kinsley, University of Bristol
Recent geographical research has been haunted by the assumption of the
increasingly integral concept of 'Technology'. This paper session offers a
forum for critical discussion and theorisation of technology. Further, an
opening is suggested to unpick how such theorisations are mobilised in
geographical accounts of the world. Drawing on the ubiquity of technology
in everyday life and its manifestation in particular commercial, political
and cultural realms it seeks to interrogate how technologies shape times,
spaces and bodies, whilst asking what is meant by the term 'Technology'
itself.
As such, this session asks how particular narratives and theorisations of
technology are written into accounts of the world and the power and the
potential of technology in constituting particular embodied subjects. The
session therefore seeks to draw together empirical and theoretical accounts
of technology to think through the blurred boundaries between the human and
the technical, in both a performative, ontological and discursive sense.
The session then welcomes papers on a variety of topics including, but not
limited to:
" Technologies as commodities, practices and things
" Critical theorisations of technology itself
" Performativity and technology
" The intersections between biology and technology
" Technology and temporality
" Gender and technology
We welcome early enquiries and expressions of interest to both James Ash
([log in to unmask]) and Sam Kinsley([log in to unmask]). We are looking
to assemble the list of contributors, titles and abstracts by January 10th
2008. The final deadline for the submission of paper and sessions
abstracts to the RGS-IBG is 22 February 2008.
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