*Call for papers: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Exeter, 1-4
Sept 2015*
*What Can a Feminist Geopolitics Do?*
Session convenors: Deborah Dixon and Angela Last (School of Geographical
and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow)
Kindly sponsored by the Gender and Feminist Geography Research Group
(GFGRG)
We ask participants to consider not what feminist geopolitics is, but
rather what it can do. Eschewing both an originary moment and a narrow
substantive focus, feminist inquiry is arguably an approach that feels for
the borders of thought and practice, noting where and with what import
these can proliferate difference once more. This in and of itself is a
critical capacity – it is what a *feminist* analysis can do. Keeping with
this critical stance, we are keen to ask, what can a *feminist geopolitics*
do? What can unfold from an engagement of feminist issues, concerns and
practices with the traditional matter of the geopolitical? How does
feminism allow for a reconfiguration of how these two elements, the geo-
and the –political, are understood and related? What lines of inquiry can
be pursued? What kinds of objects can be located and put into motion? What
kinds of relations can be drawn between these? What kinds of practice
become valued? How do new lines of inquiry both draw on and reposition
preceding feminist work as 'feminist' (or not), 'geopolitical' (or not)?
And, what is glossed or rendered absent in the process?
We anticipate two sessions, consisting of 4 x 20 minutes presentations,
followed by 20 minutes discussion involving the audience members. We will
accommodate skype audience members as far as possible, and are committed to
participation from feminist scholars at all stages of their career.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to *both* Deborah (
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6th February 2015*. We will notify the authors of selected papers by Friday
13th February 2015.
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