CFP ? AAG 2010, Washington D.C.
Environmentalism and Disavowal
Organizers: Andrew Baldwin (University of Durham) and James Evans
(University of Manchester)
This session seeks to consider various ways in which practices of
disavowal work constitute contemporary environmental theory, politics
and practice. Postcolonial geographers have made the argument that
indigenous peoples are routinely erased in the production of nature
and reinscribed into colonial narratives through idioms of culture and
tradition. Post-political critiques of environmentalism have
highlighted the ways in which discourses of environment management,
such as ?sustainability?, assume an air of neutrality while
articulating exclusionary political visions. This session seeks to
extend these insights by inviting papers that consider ways in which
other modes of disavowal operate in modern environmental thought. The
session encourages papers that explore disavowal in specific
environmental contexts, but is also open to those that are exclusively
theoretical in focus.
Questions that might be addressed include:
Is there a geography of environmental disavowal?
How do environmental knowledges and practices articulate disavowal?
To what extent is environmental disavowal racialized, gendered, classed?
To what extent is environmental disavowal institutionalised?
How is disavowal projected into the future?
Are different environmental challenges characterised by different
forms of disavowal?
What is the relation between human and non-human disavowal?
What are the bodily and spiritual coordinates of disavowal?
This session welcomes papers from all methodological and theoretical
orientations, including but in no way limited to:
postcolonialism
neoliberal environments
Governmentality/biopolitics
urban studies
citizenship studies
environmental governance
political ecology
environmental justice
the political
materiality
critical race studies
studies of affect
marxism/neo-Marxism
psychoanalysis
religious studies
Please contact Andrew Baldwin ([log in to unmask]) with
expressions of interest and/or abstracts by 9th October 2009.
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James Evans
Director MSc Environmental Governance
School of Environment and Development
University of Manchester
ph. +44(0)161 306 6680
MSc Environmental Governance
http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/geography/postgraduate/taught/courses/eg/
Rescue Geography: developing methods for public geographers
http://www.gees.bham.ac.uk/research/cpp/rescuegeography/index.htm
Society and Environment Research Group, University of Manchester
http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/research/SERG.htm
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