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Many thanks.
Harng Luh and Yang
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Call for Papers: Association of American Geographers (AAG) 2015, Chicago
Session Title: Encountering China in Fieldwork and Research
Organizers:
Harng Luh Sin (National University of Singapore)
Yang Yang (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Discussant:
Choon-Piew Pow (National University of Singapore)
Sponsorship
China Geography Specialty Group
Session Abstract:
As an emerging East Asian power in global economics and politics, China has captured attention from the rest of the world as an unprecedented yet contested miracle. As scholarship, fieldwork, and academic interests becomes increasingly centered around China however, we see pertinent issues on the peculiarity of China as a site of study, and therefore invites papers that discuss what it means to do research in and on China. This session thus aims to bring together scholars of/in China studies at various stages of their research, to share and reflect upon their experiences of conducting fieldwork and academic studies in/on China. Issues discussed can include (but is not limited to) practicalities associated with field research, notions of doing research in a "socialist regime", constraints encountered in data collection and international collaboration, research ethics, cultural encounters, and the researcher-researched relationship. At the same time, this session asks important questions about who the researcher is, and reflects upon changing assumptions and positions of China as a third party to be studied, to one in which researchers are themselves Chinese or Asian. Through sharing and discussing issues encountered, this session seeks to bring about some new understandings of conducting fieldwork and experiencing academic life in China, highlighting the importance of contextual knowledges around doing research in China, while acknowledging that many of these issues have broader implications for research and methodologies, and is not necessarily unique to China. In this light, China is defined more than a territorialized container, but an analytics that open up a space for nuanced understandings of fieldwork and beyond.
Submission Procedure:
Please send abstracts of up to 250 words to: Yang Yang ([log in to unmask]) and Harng Luh Sin ([log in to unmask]) by 29 October 2014:
Please also include the following in your submission:
• Full name
• Affiliation
• Email address
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