Geographies of Rumor and Conspiracy
Call for Papers: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting (2010)
Sponsored by Political Geography Specialty Group
Organizers:
Alasdair Pinkerton (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Jason Dittmer
(University College London)
This session explores the ways in which information, meaning, and
interpretative frames circulate in, and remake, particular spaces. The
papers in this session will explore processes of legitimation and
de-legitimation, strategies for maintaining and/or violating the boundaries
of acceptable knowledge, as well as epistemological and methodological
problems associated with this kind of research. Additional foci might
include technologies and practices of mediation, the study and collection of
rumour and conspiracy by state and non-state organizations, their role in
enabling certain forms of rumour and conspiracy, and the grounding of rumour
and conspiracy in certain places and spaces. Papers are invited which either
tackle contemporary examples (e.g. Obama's citizenship) and/or historical
geographies of rumour and conspiracy within the developed and developing
worlds.
Those interested should please submit an abstract and their AAG registration
PIN number to Alasdair Pinkerton ([log in to unmask]) or Jason Dittmer
([log in to unmask]) no later than 15 October 2009.
Dr Jason Dittmer
Lecturer in Human Geography
Department of Geography
University College London
26 Bedford Way
London WC1E 6BT
+44 0207 679 5505
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