We are looking for one or two papers to complete a final paper session.
People who are intereted in acting as discussant are also encouraged to
respond. Apologies for cross-posting.
Final Call for papers
2011 Annual Meeting of the AAG, Seattle, WA, April 12-16
NIGHTSCAPES: GEOGRAPHIES OF URBAN NIGHTS
Organisers:
Tim Schwanen, University of Oxford and Utrecht University
Irina van Aalst, Utrecht University
Ilse van Liempt, Utrecht University
Research of spatial practices in cities, suburbs and beyond tends to
concentrate on processes and events during day time; the urban night has
been marginalised and underexposed in geographical scholarship. Insofar as
urban nights have been examined, attention has been rather selective.
Since the 1970s Melbin (1978, 1987) and others have studied the
colonisation of the night and the 24/7 city – that is, the overflowing of
day-time activity, practices and processes into night time. And, in the
wake of emerging geographies of consumption, interest has steadily
increased in going out and clubbing (e.g. Malbon 1999; Hubbard 2005). This
is closely related to work on the night-time economy, its contribution to
urban revitalisation and such negative externalities as anti-social
behaviour and discrimination (e.g. Chatterton and Hollands 2003; Talbot
2007; Eldridge and Roberts 2008; Shaw 2010). Overall, however, spatial
practices and processes during night time have not been a key research
frontier in our discipline.
Through this paper session we seek to open up nightscapes, urban nights
and spatial practices and processes at night to more sustained
geographically inquiry. We are particularly interested in theoretically
informed empirical work from across the discipline about nightscapes and
urban nights in all their dimensions. Topics to be explored include, but
are not limited to, the following:
• The distinctiveness of spatial practices and processes during day and
night time
• Activity patterns, time use and mobility during the evening and at night
• The lived experience and emotional geographies of public, semi-public
and private spaces during the evening and at night
• The social construction of nightscapes and urban nights in practices and
discourses
• The night-time economy and processes of production, reproduction and
consumption between dusk and dawn
• Geographies of going out and clubbing
• Thrill seeking, anti-social behaviour and other excesses in nightscapes
• Surveillance, control and policing of spaces during the evening and at
night
• Methodological challenges of researching geographies of urban nights
If you are interested in participaing in the session as a presenter,
discussant or any other capacity, please send an expression of interest in
participating in the session to Tim Schwanen ([log in to unmask]), Irina
van Aalst ([log in to unmask]), or Ilse van Liempt ([log in to unmask]) no
later than November 5.
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Dr. Tim Schwanen
Department of Human Geography & Planning
Faculty of Geosciences
Utrecht University
PO Box 80.115
3508 TC Utrecht
The Netherlands
Transport Studies Unit
School of Geography and the Environment
University of Oxford
South Parks Road
OX1 3QY, England
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