Call for Papers
Annual Conference of the RGS-IBG, London
27 - 29 August, 2008
Convenors: Alison Blunt, Stephen Daniels, Kim Knott
AHRC Landscape and Environment Programme
AHRC Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme
Ideas and experiences of landscape and diaspora are closely intertwined.
Situated within broader debates about place and displacement, location
and mobility, this session will explore the material and imaginative
geographies of diaspora landscapes and the ways in which they reflect
and influence migratory cultures, politics, identities and practices.
Diaspora landscapes range across different forms, contexts and locations
and include landscapes of diasporic memory, attachment and belonging;
experiences of everyday landscapes in diaspora; imaginative landscapes
in diasporic art, literature and material culture; embodied and sensory
landscapes in diaspora; and the effects of migration on landscape change
at sites of departure, resettlement and return. Exploring both proximate
and more distant landscapes on scales from the home, neighbourhood and
city to the nation, homeland, and diaspora itself, the session will
reflect on the importance of landscape in relation to diasporic
identities and connections over space, time and across different
generations. Key themes include:
- diasporic landscapes of home and homeland
- diasporic landscapes of departure, settlement and return
- rural and urban landscapes in diaspora
- diaspora and the built environment
- secular and sacred diaspora landscapes
- sensory landscapes of diasporic attachment and belonging
- representations of diaspora landscapes in art, literature and material
culture
- the politics of diaspora landscapes
Please submit an abstract of up to 200 words to Alison Blunt
([log in to unmask]) by 1 February 2008. The final deadline for the
submission of paper and sessions abstracts to the RGS-IBG is 22 February
2008.
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Prof. Alison Blunt
Department of Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
tel: 020 7882 8437
fax: 020 8981 6276
Editor of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
www.blackwellpublishing.com/TRAN
Diaspora Cities research project
www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/diasporacities/
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