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The deadline for paper abstracts is this Friday (15 October 2010). To express interest or submit an abstract, please contact: Alasdair Pinkerton ([log in to unmask]), Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Full details here: http://verticalgeographies.wordpress.com/
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2nd call for papers: Vertical Geographies Workshop, 8 December 2010
Recent geographical scholarship has highlighted the importance of "verticality“ - aerial and three dimensional perspectives - in conceptualizations of space, territory, sovereignty and power. Within the subdiscipline of critical geopolitics, this interest has been, in part, provoked by recent events in Iraq and Afghanistan and mobilized though broader discussions of warfare, surveillance, air (and space) power, communications technologies and military hardware.
This one day workshop aims to both interrogate and develop conceptual understandings of the geographies and geopolitics of verticality by bringing together a broad range of scholars and scholarly approaches. Themes might include:
- aerial surveying and surveillance
- verticality of urban design and destruction
- vertical geographies of geophysical and atmospheric sciences
- virtual and transnational verticality: technology, global networks and communications
We welcome abstracts of 150 words from scholars of PhD level and higher, although it should be noted that due to the nature of the event, there will only be a limited number of presentation sessions.
The closing date for submission of abstracts will be Friday 15 October 2010.
To express interest or submit an abstract contact: Alasdair Pinkerton ([log in to unmask]), Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Travel bursaries will be available for workshop speakers.
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