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2nd Call for Papers - Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, February 24-28, 2012
'Policing Geographies: representations, materialities, practices'
Organisers: Nick Fyfe (Dundee University), Hester Parr (Glasgow University) and Olivia Stevenson (Glasgow university)
Despite Fyfe (1991), Herbert (1997) and Yarwood’s (2007) calls for scholars to pay closer attention to the geographies of policing an absence remains. This neglect is puzzling given that policing has an active research agenda in other social sciences disciplines and is central to many current debates in human geography on absence, governmentality, inclusion and exclusion, neoliberalism, risk, security, spaces of regulation, surveillance and welfare etc. Geographers have the potential to make a valuable contribution and therefore this session seeks to bring together conceptual and empirical research that represents a range of approaches to policing geographies. The topics this session seeks to explore include, but are not limited to, the following:
•'The police' and policing
•Policing bodies
•Policing and technology
•Policy making and policing
•Policing of physical/virtual space
•Invisible/ visible spaces of policing
•Policing and social control
Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words if you are interested in participating in the session via [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] no later than September 19th September.
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