Owain,
Thanks for this. See the reply from Daniel Allen himself - a generous and thoughtful riposte written in a mature style.
As for yours? Well, indicative of a lack of reading/sense of humour, brusque and positively censorious in style - could try harder.
If you undertook to make major revisions, I would be happy to review a substantially revised version.
Dr Jon Cloke
Lecturer/Research Associate
Geography Department
Loughborough University
Loughborough LE11 3TU
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Sent: 29 December 2011 16:31
To: Jonathan Cloke; [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: CFP. "Wanted, Dead or Alive: Critical Geographies of Human-Animal Encounters"
Hi Jon
Very poor post
Please try harder
(or keep quiet)
Owain
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From: A forum for critical and radical geographers
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Cloke
Sent: 29 December 2011 16:15
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Subject: Re: CFP. "Wanted, Dead or Alive: Critical Geographies of
Human-Animal Encounters"
Will there be any actual animals contributing? because otherwise surely
you're just reinforcing the process of keeping them in 'the shadows of
marginality'...
My Jack Russell Jerry just finished Said's 'Orientalism' and it's helped him
to develop a very keen apercu on quadruped excrement as 'matter out of
place' - I'm sure he'd be happy to send in an abstract if I give him a
biscuit.
Dr Jon Cloke
Lecturer/Research Associate
Geography Department
Loughborough University
Loughborough LE11 3TU
Office: 01509 228193
Mob: 07984 813681
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From: A forum for critical and radical geographers
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Sent: 28 December 2011 17:33
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Subject: CFP. "Wanted, Dead or Alive: Critical Geographies of Human-Animal
Encounters"
Call for papers:
"Wanted, Dead or Alive: Critical Geographies of Human-Animal Encounters"
RGS-IBG Conference, Edinburgh, 3rd-5th July 2012
Organisers:
Daniel Allen (Independent Scholar), Robert Hearn (Nottingham), Richard White
(Sheffield Hallam). Animal Geography Research Network
The emergence of a 'more-than-human geographies' approach to the natural
world has seen the dissolution of nature-culture binaries, challenged
understandings of "the animal", and heightened the appreciation of hybridity
and subjectivities. Despite these important developments, it has been
suggested that 'something is lost' with this analysis; and the danger of
denying difference altogether remains (Castree, 2003). As Philo (2005: 829)
reflects: 'might it not be that the animals - in detail, up close,
face-to-face, as it were - still remain somewhat shadowy presences? They are
animating the stories being told, but in their individuality - as different
species, even as individuals - they stay in the margins.'
This ambitious session strives to reconsider the original aims of the new
animal geographies project, documenting all manner of encounters between
humans and animals, showing the spatiality of human-animal orderings, and
revealing how such relationships shaped ideas, practices and identities
throughout history (Philo and Wilbert, 2001). The session welcomes papers
engaging with human-animal encounters in secure places, landscapes of
defence, spaces of security and insecurity. Possible topics could include:
animals in warfare, detection species at home and in the workplace, animals
as both forms of security for and devourers of property, encounters with
dangerous species (captivity, taming, killing), securing indigenous and
endangered species populations, animal protection through welfare and
rights. The session will showcase the rich variety of human-animal research
in social, cultural and historical geography. By bringing together 'retold
stories' (H. Lorimer, 2005) and 'responsible anthropologies' (Johnston,
2008) it is hoped this session will keep non-human animals out of the
shadows of marginality, and also help secure ongoing contributions from the
field of animal geography.
Instructions for Authors:
Please send abstracts (250 words max) to Daniel Allen
([log in to unmask]), Robert Alexander Hearn ([log in to unmask]),
or Richard J White ([log in to unmask]) by Friday 27th January 2012.
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