RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Manchester: 26-28 August 2009 (www.rgs.org/AC2009)
Call for Papers: Feminist Engagements with the Geopolitical
(Co-sponsored by the Women and Geography Study Group and the
Political Geography Research Group)
Deborah P. Dixon and Lucy Jackson, Institute of Geography and Earth
Sciences, Aberystwyth University
In this session we want to take the opportunity to map out feminist
engagements with the geopolitical, but also to think through how
these 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
The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 3rd 2009. Please
include the following information when you submit an abstract: Name,
Affiliation, Contact email, Title of proposed paper, Abstract (no
more than 250 words), Any technical requirements (video, data
projector, sound, etc.)
Please submit abstracts to:
Dr. Deborah Dixon
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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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