Deadline 1st Feb
Call for papers
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2015
2-4 September 2015, Exeter (Devon, UK)
Sponsored by the Geographies of Leisure and Tourism Research Group (GLTRG)
The Anthropocene and the end of geographical imagination?
This session aims to explore ways in which the Anthropocene may be re-ordering geography´s empirical and conceptual focus. As the Anthropocene is one among many moments in history when the emergence of new scientific objects have altered humanity’s relationship to the past, present, future, and the geographical imagination. The classic and modern geographical imagination(s) were founded on a cartographic reason according to which the Earth was translated onto the map, in ways that primarily privileged the projection of certain of its spatial surface features (landscapes, places, spaces). However, in the Anthropocene the task is no longer to map the Earth, but the tangled webs of geophysical becomings in-between humanity and the Earth. This suggests that the Anthropocene calls for an altogether different geographical imagination, one which does not have the Earth as its (original) object, but what we call “the EarthWorld”. This not only results in a reoriented empirical and conceptual focus of geography, but also brings forth different narratives and imaginings of the past and the future in the realms of art and politics. Following a volume published by Routledge in May 2015 on tourism and the Anthropocene, this session will highlight issues of the Anthropocene in terms of geographical imagination and inviting papers to interpret nature, art and politics on those premises.
Please submit your paper proposals (title plus max 200 words abstract) to the session organisers by 1st February
Session organizers
Edward H. Huijbens (University of Akureyri, Icelandic Tourism Research Centre), [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Martin Gunnar Gren (Linnaeus University, Sweden), [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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Edward H. Huijbens MA, PhD
Researcher / Professor
Icelandic Tourism Research Centre / University of Akureyri
Borgum v/Nordurslod
600 Akureyri, Iceland (IS)
Tel: +354 460-8931
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