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There are still a few places available for the session below, to be held at the AAG Annual Meeting in Boston, 5-9 April 2017
Call for Papers
Affective Borderscapes: The Multiple Senses of State, Law and Technology at the Border.
Organiser: Ioanna Tsoni (Malmö University, Sweden)
From the shores of Lesvos, Lampedusa and Nauru islands to the Indo-Pakistani fence; along the Israel-Palestine wall and across the Rio Grande; into the besieged Southern Damascus where hundreds perish of starvation trapped behind man-made lines and beyond, the intensifying plight of border-crossing populations has progressively turned into a ghastly global spectacle of border enforcement, surveillance and control. This border spectacle utilizes affect as an intangible substance of politics and taps into the distribution of sentiment as a technology of state governance, legal production and promotion of specific political rationalities.
Multiple agents (human, non/more-than-human, bureaucratic, state, corporate etc.) are engaged in this ‘theatrialisation’ of borders. Individually or collectively they are performing competing practical and symbolic borderwork from ‘above’ and from ‘below’ as they trespass, surveil, inhabit, regulate and de/construct borders and boundaries. Those actors’ imaginaries, materialities and practices interlock and often clash within the ‘manifold overlapping topologies’ of emergent borderscapes that span scales from the global to the local, down to lines of distinction inscribed upon the ‘geography closest in’ – the body.
In this light, this session seeks to bring the discussion of affect into critical debate with border studies and the anthropology of state and law. The session’s theme is designed to be inclusive enough to solicit a wide range of applicants exploring multidimensional aspects of bordering practices from around the world. Researchers are invited to submit abstracts of ethnographically grounded accounts whose empirical scope includes - but is not restricted to - the investigation of state borders and traces affective intensities that erupt as bodies cut through lines of exclusion encountered at various scales, locations and domains.
Paper Submissions:
To submit a paper proposal, please submit the following, in the order listed below, all in a single
Microsoft word file or pdf document:
1. Applicant’s name, affiliation, and contact information.
2. Paper abstract of no more than 250 words.
3. Brief bio-sketch of 200-300 words.
Please email complete applications to Ioanna Tsoni at [log in to unmask] by Wednesday October 26th 2016. Questions or clarifications prior to abstract submission should be directed to the same email address.
Context and host
The session will take place at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Boston between April 5 -9 2017, which brings together leading scholars, experts and researchers in geography, GIS, environmental science, sustainability and relevant fields.
Registration
All conference presenters must register for the conference. For more information on how to register please visit the conference website: http://www.aag.org/annualmeeting
Travel expenses and fees
No support is available from the session convener towards the cost of accommodation and/or travel and the conference fee.
Session Convener
The organizer is a PhD candidate within the program ‘Migration, Urbanisation and Societal Change’ (MUSA) at Malmö University (SE).
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Ioanna Tsoni
Ph.D. Candidate
Migration, Urbanization and Societal Change (MUSA)
Department of Global Political Studies
Malmö University
Bassänggatan 2
SE-21119 Sweden
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