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Interdisciplinary conference and workshop on 'Maritime Geographies'.
October 7th - 9th 2010, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
Co-sponsored by the Historical Geography Research Group, Political
Geography Research Group and Social and Cultural Research Group of the
RGS-IBG and the Human Geography Research Group and the Centre for
Research on Racism, Ethnicity and Nationalism, University of Glasgow
Confirmed speakers include:
Professor Paul Gilje, George Lynn Cross Research Professor, Department
of History, University of Oklahoma (Author of Liberty on the Waterfront:
American Maritime Society and Culture in the Age of Revolution,
1750-1850)
Professor Lakshmi Subramanian, Professor of History, Department of
History Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi (Author of Indigenous Capital and
Imperial Expansion: Bombay, Surat and the West Coast)
Dr Jeremy Anderson and Paula Hamilton International Transport Workers’
Federation
Dr Dan Clayton, School of Geography and Geo-sciences, University of St
Andrews (author of Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of
Vancouver Island)
Dr Stephanie Jones, English, School of Humanities, University of
Southampton (Editor of Imagining the Indian Ocean: A Reader, forthcoming)
Dr David Lambert, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of
London (White Creole Culture, Politics and Identity in the Age of Abolition)
Dr Carl Thompson, School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent
University (author of The Suffering Traveller and the Romantic Imagination)
Over the last decade or so, geographers have begun to critically engage
with the maritime realms of the past and the present, signalling
something of a shift from the territorial focus which had dominated the
discipline for so long. The worlds of sailors and ships, slaves and
merchants, dockworkers and ports, and even the sea itself have been
explored through the lens of geography. This has led to the
foregrounding of new debates and perspectives in relation to existing
concerns within the discipline and has reworked understandings of
processes such as imperialism and slavery. It has also offered new
points of departure from which geographical research can emerge.
Geographers have, among other things, begun to engage with the politics
of maritime networks (Lambert 2005), the spatial constitution of
maritime networks (Ogborn 2008), explore forms of subaltern agency and
identity constituted by maritime workers (Featherstone 2008), and
interrogate the spatial imaginaries of the ocean (Steinberg 2001).
Much of this work has been positioned in relation to productive
theoretical and empirical attempts to ‘historicise the ocean’ (Klein and
MacKenthun 2004); a paradigm shift in historical studies which advances
a major challenge to existing work in social and political history. This
work has included pioneering work on various forms of Atlantic
radicalism and maritime culture (Gilje, 2004, Linebaugh and Rediker,
2000; Rediker, 2004, 2007, Scott, 1986), on the maritime worlds of the
Indian Ocean, (Pearson, 2003, Subramanian, 2003), an historical
ethnography of the HMS Bounty mutineers (Dening, 1992), an account of
slave-ship sailors (Christopher, 2006), and work on the presence of
Africans in the Atlantic (Bolster 1997; Gilroy 1992). This work has led
to an important revisioning of nation-centred histories of radical
movements and forms of social practices and opened up new ways of
engaging with subaltern identities, agency and practices.
While drawing on this body of work for inspiration, this conference
seeks to critically engage with the work that has been advanced in
maritime geographies thus far and prompt new research agendas in the
process. The programme of events spanning three days will include
keynote talks, papers and workshops dealing with methodological and
theoretical issues.
Key questions:
•How does a focus on maritime connections refigure terracentric
conceptions of nation and empire?
•What are the sites/spaces of the ship?
•How does a focus on the littoral refigure notions of space and place?
•What are the dynamic spatial practices of maritime workers/ sailor’s
politics/ organising practices?
•What are the geographies of pirates and piracy?
•How does thinking in explicitly spatial terms reconfigure the terms of
debate of existing work on maritime histories?
•How are maritime spaces constituted through transnational and
multi-ethnic relations?
•What are the gendered spatial practices of maritime worlds?
•What human/ non-human configurations are constituted through maritime
networks?
•What productive methodologies are engendered by an attention to
maritime geographies?
4 bursaries are available for Historical Geography Research Group and
Social and Cultural Geography Research Group postgraduate members
presenting at this conference. If you want to be considered for one of
the postgraduate bursaries please indicate this when you submit your
abstract.
Abstracts of around 250 words should be submitted to William Hasty
([log in to unmask]) and David Featherstone
([log in to unmask]) by Friday, 4th June, 2010.
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