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Dear all,
Below please find the second CFP for *The Postcolonial Arctic*, an
interdisciplinary conference to be held at the University of Leeds on 30-31
May, 2014. I would be grateful if you would distribute this to fellow
colleagues, researchers and students.
Cheers,
Roger
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*Second Call for Papers*
*The Postcolonial Arctic*
International Postgraduate Conference
30-31 May 2014, University of Leeds, UK
The primary objective of this two-day conference is to gauge the extent to
which postcolonial theories and methods may be applied to the European
Arctic, thereby making the case for a 'postcolonial Arctic' in which
locally articulated desires to decolonise the region are seen in both
ecological and cultural-political terms. The current global scramble for
the Arctic can be seen in terms of a centuries-long pursuit of material
wealth and political purchase in the region that has hardly diminished for
the various colonial and commercial powers concerned (Craciun 2009). The
Arctic might thus be described as having both a colonial past *and *a
colonial present, and the conference will look to operate with this double
understanding of the postcolonial: as both a painful negotiation of the
legacies of earlier eras and a reckoning--in many ways equally
damaging--with those new forms of colonialism that have surfaced in today's
globalised world. But the event also seeks to operate with a third, more
hopeful understanding of the postcolonial: as setting up the parameters for
both imaginative and material transformation so as to support cultural and
political autonomy, but also to create the conditions for a more
'planetary' (cosmopolitan, socially and ecologically balanced) vision of
the world.
15-minute papers are invited from across all disciplines, theoretical and
empirical angles, and areas of relevance to the 'postcolonial Arctic'. Topics
might include (but are not limited to):
· Arctic colonialisms past and present
· Arctic environments and ecologies
· Indigenous presences in and perspectives on the Arctic
· Arctic explorations, travels and tourisms
· Imaginaries of the Arctic and of the North
· Encounters between residents of and travellers to the Arctic (and/or
within these two heterogeneous groups)
· Antarctic perspectives, comparative or otherwise
This conference will be held at the Leeds Humanities Research Institute
(University of Leeds) and co-hosted by the Leeds Institute for Colonial and
Postcolonial Studies (ICPS) and by members of the HERA Arctic Encounters (
www.arcticencounters.net) project. The conference is intended
primarily--though not exclusively--for postgraduate and early career
scholars. Keynote speakers include Michael Bravo (Cambridge), Kari Herbert
(Polarworld Publishing) and Tero Mustonen (Snowchange Collective, Finland).
Other participants include Simone Abram (Leeds Met), Graham Huggan (Leeds),
Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen (Roskilde), Lars Jensen (Roskilde), Britt Kramvig
(Tromsø), Kristín Loftsdóttir (Iceland) and Katrín Anna Lund (Iceland).
Abstracts (with title, contact details and affiliation) of max 200 words to
be sent to co-convenors Prof Graham Huggan ([log in to unmask]) and
Roger Norum ([log in to unmask]) by *Friday, 28 February, 2014*. Space is
limited; early submissions are thus welcome. Arctic and/or postcolonial
scholars from outside the UK are particularly encouraged to apply.
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*Roger Norum*
DPhil Candidate, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Research Student, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
University of Oxford
+44 (0)7525 006 807
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