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Call for Papers, Association of American
Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas March 22-27, 2009.
from Deborah P. Dixon, Institute of Geography and
Earth Sciences and Jennifer Mathers,
International Politics, Aberystwyth University
Feminist Engagements with the Geopolitical
In 2001 Lorraine Dowler and Jo Sharpe described a
nascent feminist engagement with geopolitics,
noting how an emphasis on embodied, everyday,
informal practices could help write women back
into all manner of political landscapes, but also
sensitize us to the diversity of attitudes,
emotions and behaviours that made up the
political. In the same year Jennifer Hyndman took
the opportunity to remind political and feminist
geographers of the conceptual and empirical
insights afforded by those working within other
disciplines, particularly a feminist political
science, such as an interrogation of
accountability and responsibility, and a critical
appraisal of the work of boundaries. In the
succeeding years, numerous papers have sought to
flesh out what Hyndman calls a ‘feminist
geopolitical imaginary’ by complicating our
understanding of key concepts such as
corporeality, emotions, and ethics; exploring new
objects of analysis such as trauma and violence,
terrorism, and conspiracy; and reaching out to
other disciplines, including psychology and
literary theory, as well as politics and
international relations, postcolonial and
development studies, to help animate these.
In this session we want to take the opportunity
to map out these feminist engagements with the
geopolitical, but also to think through how they
can develop alongside future political
landscapes. Moreover, we would like to think
through how new lines of engagement can emerge
and be put into practice. Accordingly, we invite
papers on the following themes:
· The history and future of a feminist, geopolitical theory and praxis
· A feminist approach to geopolitical accountability and responsibility
· Feminist geopolitics and methodological concerns
· A feminist appraisal of trauma and violence
· Feminist approaches to terrorism and conspiracy
· Public and private spaces of geopolitics
· Place, gender and the
construction/deconstruction of national identities
· The gender implications of postconflict
reconstructions and reconciliations
· Women, men and the armed forces
· Gender and diplomacy
· Gender and the work of international reporting
· The gendering of biopolitics
· Geopolitical bodies and assemblages
· Post-human geopolitical landscapes and
their import for feminist theory
If you would like to participate please send an
abstract to Deborah Dixon
(<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]) and
Jennifer Mathers (<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]) by October 12th 2008.
Dr. Deborah Dixon
Editor, Gender,Place and Culture
Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences
University of Wales-Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 3DB
Wales, UK
Phone: 01970 622582
Fax: 01970 622659
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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