CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop: Spatialising the social sciences in post-colonial contexts (May 5 & 6 2017, University of Oxford)
The aim of this workshop will be to provide a cross-language and cross-discipline platform of exchange for scholars working at the intersection between the social sciences, humanities and geography, or broadly participating in the “spatial turn” in the study of the post-colonial world. As Edward Soja (2011) has observed, postcolonial studies and human geography have always enjoyed an intimate entanglement. The spatial turn, however, as he has also pointed out, has provoked new concerns within and in relation to postcolonial scholarship. In postcolonial countries, the struggle over territory – physical, epistemological, cultural, corporeal and others – meant that scholars from or working on such contexts were paying attention to space and place long before the spatial turn (Noyes, 1992; Chambers & Curti, 1996; Ashcroft, Griffiths & Tiffin, 1994; Bhabha, 1994; Bhabha, 1990). How, nonetheless, has the increased attention to and production of critical spatial perspectives throughout the humanities and social sciences affected the study of space in the postcolonial world? As Soja writes, has it allowed for critical moves away from binaries like colonizer/colonized, East/West, North/South, capitalism/socialism? What other, non-dichotomous ways of thinking and narrating the postcolonial condition does the spatial turn enable? These are some of the questions we hope to explore in this workshop.
Dates and Deadlines:
The seminar will take place over two days on May 5 and 6, 2017. It will be held at Oxford (University of Oxford).
Abstracts should not exceed 500 words and should be sent to both of the organisers at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> and [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, before the 15th of March 2017. Participants will be notified about the status of their submissions by the end of the first week of April 2017.
Attached is a more detailed call for papers.
Sophie Chamas
DPhil Candidate in Oriental Studies
St Antony’s College
University of Oxford
OX2 6JF
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