Call for papers RGS Annual Conference 2012 – 3-5th July 2012
Proposed Session - [Ctrl_Del]: the geography of militarised space
Session conveners:
Dr Nick Dunn, Manchester School of Architecture
Richard Brook, Manchester School of Architecture
Abstract:
The transformation of the urban realm through the increased privatisation and commodification of space can be seen as concomitant with the growth of surveillance and other technological mechanisms of control and order. Whether physical, mediated or satellite, such instruments of spatial governance have evolved from via military-industrial complex to become an accepted and integral system or feature of the urban agglomeration. This slow, but steady, transition to a sleeping state poised to repel all unknown and as yet undetermined invaders has been discussed in various terms by international commentators. This session therefore seeks to address these conditions from alternative positions and to describe and assess their geographies, the impact and relationships of militarised space upon extant landscapes and attendant issues including; exclusion, security, fear and manifestation.
This is a deliberately broad call that will consider papers from a range of disciplines around the following themes:
• Military urbanism, control of public realm and urban space.
• ‘Scanscapes’/CCTV and geographies of surveillance.
• Territory and translation: camouflaged landscapes, stealth tactics in urban design.
• Black spots/blank spots: deliberate omission of data in maps.
• Fortified urbanism, gated communities and the geography of fear.
• Legibility of spatial demarcation, ownership and control.
• Geographies of resistance, activism, misuse and interstitial practices.
Please send abstracts up to a maximum of 250 words and proposed titles (clearly stating name, institution, and contact details) to Dr Nick Dunn ([log in to unmask]) by Monday 23rd January 2012.
Urban geography, Militarisation, Control, Spatial demarcation and ownership, Surveillance, Stealth, Security
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