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From: Alexandra Fanghanel
Sent: 20 January 2012 14:22
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Subject: 2nd Call for papers: Sex, Space and Security
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Call for papers:
Sex, Space and Security
Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) [RGS-IBG] Annual Conference - Edinburgh, UK, 3 - 5 July 2012
See:
http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/Annual+international+conference.htm
Session conveners:
Alex Fanghanel (University College London) Jason Lim (Queen Mary,
University of London)
Sponsored by:
Space, Sexualities and Queer Research Group (SSQRG) of the RGS-IBG
Women and Geography Study Group (WGSG) of the RGS-IBG
What are the implications of current concerns about risk, insecurity and
global crises for understanding sexual practice and subjectivity? In
what ways might we think about how, for example, technologies of
securitisation such as discourses of safe keeping or the informatization
of bodies affects the constitution of spatial and sexual subjectivity?
How do such technologies affect how we come to understand ourselves as
spatiotemporally located subjects with desires, orientations, drives
etc? Against the idea that subjectivities become stratified by
technologies of securitisation, appeals have been made to the idea that
subjectivities emerge through molecular determination and transversal
connectivity.
What are the implications of these questions for feminist and queer
politics? What kinds of politics - beyond a non-normative sexual
politics - might be apposite at this juncture? In a society where the
imperative to create safe places and foster security at a personal,
local, national and international level prevails, is there still the
space for subversive sexual politics, activism or practice? Is a
security discourse incompatible with subversive feminist or queer thought?
Paper are invited on - but not limited to - the following themes:
The impact of the Internet and other technologies on sexuality, sexual
politics and sexual practices
Protest (particularly protests addressing feminist or queer issues -
Slutwalk, Pride)
Sexuality and health security and precarity
Sexuality, nationalism and homonationalism
Intergenerational sexuality and security
Securitisation of sexual dissidents and sexual dissidence
Security implications of the changing terrain of the sexual encounter
The impact of security and surveillance discourses on sexuality
Sites of risk as sites of sexual political struggle (tea-rooms,
bathhouses, kerbs, public toilets, green spaces, the night time economy,
chatrooms, 'adult encounter' websites etc)
Abstracts of up to 250 words in length should be sent to Alex Fanghanel
, University College London,[log in to unmask] by 25th January 2012.
We welcome papers from those working in Geography, Sociology, Women's
Studies, Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology,
Political Science/Political Studies, Critical Legal Studies, Security
Studies or any other cognate discipline.
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