Dear colleagues
Royal Holloway's Department of Geography is hosting the annual Political Geography Research Group workshop next week, 12-13th June on the theme of ‘Fieldwork in Political Geography‘.
The programme can be found online here: https://rhulgeopolitics.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/news-workshop-schedule-fieldwork-in-political-geography/
Cost: Free (£10 for conference dinner)
Attendance: If you would like to attend, please register via this link - https://www.cognitoforms.com/RHUL1/FieldworkInPoliticalGeography
Please contact Dr Alasdair Pinkerton ([log in to unmask]) or Rachael Squire ([log in to unmask]) for more details.
Context:
‘The sub-discipline of political geography has undergone significant transformation since its inception in the early 20th century. The ‘God’s Eye view’ has been decentred by critical scholarship, and new approaches involving discourse, the representational, and more recently, the embodied, everyday, affective, material, and elemental to name but a few have been pursued by scholars. Political geography occupies a rich and diverse conceptual and methodological landscape.
One dimension that has perhaps received less critical attention, however, is the ‘doing’ of political geography ‘in the field’? How can we, as political geographers, best engage with and research the geopolitical world? What specific challenges does fieldwork—however we might choose to define this—pose for political geography research and teaching? To what extent can we learn from the creative approaches being developed elsewhere in human geography, the arts, social sciences and the “geo-humanities”?
The Political Geography Research Group is holding a two-day workshop on Monday 12–Tuesday 13 June 2017 at Royal Holloway University of London to engage with some of these questions and to explore this understudied dimension of political geography. The overarching theme of the workshop is ‘Fieldwork in Political Geography’ and we are pleased to have a rich programme of papers and presentations on both the ‘doing’ of political geography research ‘in the field’, and the role of fieldwork in teaching.
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