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Loughborough University
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On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:52:11 +0100
 Erika Sigvardsdotter
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> With the usual apologies:
>
> Call for Papers -RGS-IBG Annual International
>Conference, 1-3  September 2010, London
>
> Absence. Materiality, embodiment, resistance
> Convenors
>
> • Lars Frers - University of Oslo
> • Lars Meier - Institute for Employment Research,
>Nürnberg
> • Erika Sigvardsdotter - Uppsala University
> Session sponsored by the Social and Cultural Geography
>Research Group  (SCGRG) and Political Geography Research
>Group (PolGRG)
>
> Web:
>http://ac2010.tumblr.com/post/266330236/absence-materiality-embodiment-resistance
>
> Abstract
>
> What is missing, for whom and why? How does that, which
>is absent,  relate to the things and people that are
>present? In this session we  whish to engage with the
>intersections of the material and emotional  qualities of
>absence, focussing on the fact that absence is all but a
> void, manifesting itself in concrete places, people and
>things; that  it is embodied and enacted.
>
> To feel something’s absence, it needs to be part of a
>temporal  pattern, it has to be a part of what is
>expected; something that used  to be present. A factory
>is shut down, workers gone, and with them the  sounds and
>smells of work. Yet all of these sensual experiences may
>be  evoked by a whiff of a machine’s scent, by a familiar
>chink or a rusty  tool laying around. Exploring the
>materiality of absence, we want to  improve the
>understanding of how remembrances of things past and
> people gone are realized in things and people present.
>Establishing  absence may also be part or result of
>power-related negotiations. As  legal residuals of border
>regulation, irregular migrants are absent in  a
>jurisdiction; off the grid, uncountable and unable to
>complain if  abused or exploited. Yet, their presence is
>unquestionable. Although  being able to exercise that
>presence may be a long term goal, absence  – from
>conspicuous places, from view and immigration officer’s
>radars,  can be a situational tactic necessary for their
>survival. However,  managing absence, controlling the
>traces and the materialities that  might make the absent
>present can also be a long-term strategy.  Research into
>climate change can be understood as work trying to
> overcome the resistance of the material by digging up
>traces that show  that something is there even it may
>usually be absent.
>
> The absence-presence ambivalence can be worked in
>various ways; a  presence suggesting the absent, the
>seemingly absent becoming present  in flesh and blood, or
>as a merely suggested, ghostlike presence.
>
> Possible session topics:
>
> • Remembrances: Emotions, memory and the materiality of
>absence
> • Contestations of what and who is absent/present
> • Practices and the managing of absence
> In the session, we want to discuss different
>characteristics of  absence and their interrelations. To
>achieve this we will focus on  concrete experiences and
>examples of absence and we welcome  presentations that
>display the sensual and material qualities of  absence.
>
> Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words for
>a 20 minute  presentation (including title, presenter’s
>name and affiliation)  before 31st January 2010 to
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>
> Erika Sigvardsdotter
> PhD candidate
> Department of Social and Economic Geography
> Uppsala University
> Box 513
> S-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
> Phone: +46(0)18 471 2541
> Cell: +46 (0)70 244 9483
>Fax: +46(0)18 471 7418
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
> web: http://erikasigvardsdotter.wordpress.com/
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