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Topics of the day:
1. CfP ISA Toronto, July 2018: Ethnographies of Transnationalism,
Displacement and Belonging: The Intersections of Lifestyle
Migration/Residential Tourism and Urban Transformation
2. Environmental Justice MOOC (a free online course) now open for enrolment
3. University sector faces blight of neoliberalism
4. Bravo (5)
5. "The case for colonialism", outrage and response (3)
6. 2nd CFP: Platform Urbanism – AAG 2018, New Orleans, USA
7. 2 tenure-track positions in Environmental Policy / Environmental Studies
at Memorial University, Canada
8. Univ. of Delaware Geography hiring TWO TT GIS positions
9. Final Call for Papers PSU Critical Conference
10. CFP AAG 2018: Geographies of Migrant Return and Removal
11. Job: Senior Lecturer in GIS and Risk Management (Chester, UK)
12. Job Announcement: Assistant Professor of Sustainable Urban Development,
Urban Studies Program, Trinity College
13. FW: International Symposium this weekend - Bodily Undoing: Somatic
Activism and Performance Cultures as Practices of Critique
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 09:04:12 +0100
From: Hila Zaban <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CfP ISA Toronto, July 2018: Ethnographies of Transnationalism, Displacement and Belonging: The Intersections of Lifestyle Migration/Residential Tourism and Urban Transformation
Dear Colleagues,
Apologies for cross posting.
Please see below our CfP for a session at the *International Sociological
Association, *scheduled for* 15-21 July 2018 in Toronto. *
Abstract of 300 words should be submitted by the deadline of *Saturday, 30
September 2017. *
https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc2018/webprogrampreliminary/
Session10895.html
With best wishes,
Hila and Matthew
Ethnographies of Transnationalism, Gentrification, Displacement and
Belonging: The Intersection of Lifestyle Migration/Residential Tourism and
Urban Transformation
RC21 Regional and Urban Development (host committee)
Language: English
Studies of gentrification have sought to visualize the global or
‘planetary’ nature of the process, assessing how a term used in one local
context (Great Britain in the 1960s, see Glass 1964), and the actual
process, differ in distinct urban and cultural environments (Janoschka,
Sequera and Salinas 2014; Lees, Shin and López-Morales 2016; Roy and Ong
2011). In many of these cases, neighborhoods are being transformed by
foreign investors, who participate in market valorization with varying
degrees of attachment to place. This panel draws attention to a growing
number of cities in different geographical regions that have experienced
transnational forms of gentrification—processes linked to the mobility of
individuals from higher to lower latitudes of the global division of labor.
Increasingly, gentrification processes are linked to holiday rentals,
lifestyle migration or residential tourism (Cocola Gant 2016; Sigler and
Wachsmuth 2016). While transnational gentrification can be caused by the
world’s super-rich (Forrest et al. 2017; Hay and Muller 2012; Ley 2010), in
many places it is the work of middle class people, whose global social
positions enable them to compete with locals on available and new-build
housing (Haramati and Hananel 2016; Hayes 2015; Zaban 2016). Our panel
seeks to explore how the lifestyle ideals and place imaginaries of
privileged migrants influence the political economy of cities and the
production of space and place. We are interested in ethnographic work that
deals with the local consequences of global inequality in various global
settings, and acts of resistance that seek social justice.
Session Organizers:
*Hila ZABAN*, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, United
Kingdom, [log in to unmask]
*Matthew HAYES*, Sociology Department, St. Thomas University and Canada
Research Chair in Global and International Studies, Canada, [log in to unmask]
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Dr Hila Zaban
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Department of Sociology, University of Warwick
Email: [log in to unmask] / Mobile: +44 (0)7478 254 717 /
https://warwick.academia.edu/HilaZaban
*Recent Publications: *
Zaban, H. (2017). Preserving 'the Enemy's' Architecture: Preservation and
Gentrification in a Formerly Palestinian Jerusalem Neighbourhood,
*International
Journal of Heritage Studies.*
Zaban, H. (2017). City of Go(l)d: Spatial and Cultural Effects of
High-Status Jewish Immigration from Western Countries on the Baka
Neighbourhood of Jerusalem, *Urban Studies*, 54(7), 1539-1558.
Zaban, H. (2016). In the Name of Pluralism: Fighting the (Perceived)
Ultra-Orthodox Penetration in the Neighbourhood of Baka, Jerusalem. *Israel
Studies*, 21(3), 153–178.
Zaban, H. (2016). “Once There Were Moroccans Here – Today Americans”:
Gentrification and the Real Estate Market in the Baka Neighbourhood of
Jerusalem. *City*, 20(3), 412–427.
Zaban, H. (2015). Living in a Bubble: Enclaves of Transnational Jewish
Immigrants from Western Countries in Jerusalem. *Journal of International
Migration and Integration*, 16(4), 1003–1021.
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 09:22:21 +0000
From: "Brendan Coolsaet (DEV)" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Environmental Justice MOOC (a free online course) now open for enrolment
Dear colleagues,
Enrolment is now open for the new Environmental Justice MOOC (a free online course) run by the University of East Anglia and Future Learn. The course starts on 16th October and runs for 5 weeks.
Environmental Justice MOOC<https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/environmental-justice/2> - Understand how climate change, biodiversity loss and deforestation affect people, exploring justice in environment management.
Why join the course?
The world faces challenging environmental problems. They are challenging because different people typically contribute differently to environmental change, and because its effects will be felt differently by different people in different places. This free online course will help you understand how injustice is a common feature of many environmental problems, including deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change and water management. We’ll show that sustainable environmental management requires attention to justice - that we need to strike the right balance between the needs, interests, rights and aspirations of various stakeholders today, and those of both nature and future generations.
How long will the course last?
This course runs for 5 weeks and expect about 4 hours of study each week.
Who will I be learning with?
You’ll learn with the University of East Anglia’s Global Environmental Justice Group - an interdisciplinary mix of scholars interested in the links between social justice and environmental change. Through a series of films shot in Africa, Asia and Latin America, you’ll also meet environmental activists and find out how justice can be a powerful motivator for environmental action. You’ll share your own experiences with other learners around the world, thinking about how you can put academic theory into practice, through course discussions, quizzes and assignments.
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for people who are already working on environmental problems or are familiar with environmental issues. It seeks to address environmentalists around the world although a background on international development will be useful.
Register today!<https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/environmental-justice/2>
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Recent publications
• Zafra-Calvo et al. (2017) Towards an indicator system to assess equitable management in protected areas<http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1V3Dt1R~e719b>. Biological Conservation, 211, Part A, 134–141
• Coolsaet, B. (2016). Towards an agroecology of knowledges: Recognition, cognitive justice and farmers’ autonomy in France<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305949052_Towards_an_agroecology_of_knowledges_Recognition_cognitive_justice_and_farmers'_autonomy_in_France>. Journal of Rural Studies, 47, Part A, 165–171.
• Martin, A., Coolsaet, B., Corbera, E., Dawson, N. M., Fraser, J. A., Lehmann, I., & Rodriguez, I. (2016). Justice and conservation: The need to incorporate recognition<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299251136_Justice_and_Conservation_the_need_to_incorporate_recognition>. Biological Conservation, 197, 254–261.
• Coolsaet, B., & Pitseys, J. (2015). Fair and Equitable Negotiations? African Influence and the International Access and Benefit-Sharing Regime<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274695897_Fair_and_Equitable_Negotiations_African_Influence_and_the_International_Access_and_Benefit-Sharing_Regime>. Global Environmental Politics, 15(2), 38–56.
Dr Brendan Coolsaet
School of International Development
University of East Anglia
Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Skype: bcoolsaet
Publications<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brendan_Coolsaet/> – Twitter<https://twitter.com/bcoolsaet>
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 09:39:39 +0000
From: David Featherstone <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: University sector faces blight of neoliberalism
Hi all,
just to say - folk might be interested in this letter to the Guardian yesterday- which I think very usefully shifts discussion about vice-chancellor's pay etc to broader terrain of critique of the effect of neoliberalism in the university sector more generally.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/sep/13/university-sector-faces-blight-of-neoliberalism?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
All best
Dave
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 10:29:30 +0100
From: "Willis N. Churnocht" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Bravo
What could be more critical and radical than putting forward an argument defending colonialism?
Bravo to this chap for breaking the mold and being brave enough to raise some important questions.
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 10:35:51 +0100
From: "Willis N. Churnocht" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: "The case for colonialism", outrage and response
What could be more critical and radical than putting forward a case defending colonialism?
Bravo to this chap for being brave, breaking the mold and transcending the confines of left-wing thinking.
Academia asks us to think critically, after all.
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 09:51:19 +0000
From: Freya Higgins Desbiolles <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Bravo
Bravo, for doubling down on the faux radicalism. It is always great to see privileged folks assert such things when they've not suffered the manifestations of what they argue as an "academic exercise". Perhaps some people seek to position themselves to benefit when an argument emerges for recolonisation (to block refugees, to gain scarce resources and to resume the White man's burden to revive white man's relevance).
Bravo indeed.
Sent from my iPad
> On 14 Sep 2017, at 12:40 pm, Willis N. Churnocht <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> What could be more critical and radical than putting forward an argument defending colonialism?
>
> Bravo to this chap for breaking the mold and being brave enough to raise some important questions.
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 10:54:39 +0100
From: Stephen Linstead <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: "The case for colonialism", outrage and response
It also expects us to understand the meaning of the term before we use it.
On 14 Sep 2017 10:46 am, "Willis N. Churnocht" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> What could be more critical and radical than putting forward a case
> defending colonialism?
>
> Bravo to this chap for being brave, breaking the mold and transcending the
> confines of left-wing thinking.
>
> Academia asks us to think critically, after all.
>
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 10:08:21 +0000
From: Scott Rodgers <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: 2nd CFP: Platform Urbanism – AAG 2018, New Orleans, USA
Platform Urbanism
Call for Papers/Panellists
Association of American Geographers Conference 2018
New Orleans, USA, 10-14 April 2018
Organizers
Susan Moore (University College London)
Scott Rodgers (Birkbeck, University of London)
Sponsors
Digital Geographies Specialty Group
Media and Communication Geography Specialty Group
Urban Geography Speciality Group
Outline
Talk about ‘platforms’ is today all-pervasive: platform architecture, platform design, platform ecosystem, platform governance, platform markets, platform politics, platform thinking. But just what are platforms? And how might we understand their emergent urban geographies?
As Tarleton Gillespie (2010) argues, the term ‘platform’ clearly does discursive work for commercial entities such as Facebook, Amazon, Uber, Airbnb and Google. It allows them to be variably (and often ambiguously) described and imagined: as technical platforms; platforms for expression; or platforms of entrepreneurial opportunity. Indeed, as emergent spaces, platforms – both commercial and nonprofit – entail so many ambitions, activities, services, exchanges, forums, infrastructures, and ordinary practices that conceptualizing their general dynamics is difficult, perhaps even pointless.
Yet platforms do appear to have considerable implications, geographical as well as political. For Benjamin Bratton (2015), cloud-based platforms such as Facebook, Amazon and Google form a fundamental layer of what he calls planetary-scale computation, perhaps representing new forms of geopolitical sovereignty. This ‘sovereignty’ is, however, neither generalized nor homogeneous: in manifests in geographically uneven intensities and extents.
This session invites original research and conceptual reflections that explore, debate and critique the notion of an emergent ‘platform urbanism’. Recently, Nick Srnicek (2016) deployed the phrase ‘platform capitalism’ to encapsulate his argument that platforms not only mark a new kind of firm, but a new way of making economies. Here – in a move similar to Henri Lefevbre’s (1970/2003) in The urban revolution – we suggest a speculative substitution of ‘urbanism’ for ‘capitalism’, placing an emphasis on the possibility of irreducible, co-generative dynamics between platforms and the urban.
Contributions may address a wide range of commercial and nonprofit platforms – including those related to social networking, user-generated content, location-based technologies, mapping and the geoweb, goods and services, marketing, and gaming – and their relationships with various forms of urban living and urban spaces.
Expressions of Interest
We intend to organize 1-2 paper sessions, depending on quantity and quality of submissions, followed by a panel discussion session.
Expressions of interest must be emailed to both Susan Moore ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Scott Rodgers ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by 1 October 2017. Those proposing a paper presentation should send an abstract of 250 words; those interested in participating as a panellist should include a short outline of their intended contribution in their email.
References
Bratton, B. H. (2016). The stack: On software and sovereignty. MIT press.
Gillespie, T. (2010). The politics of ‘platforms’. New Media & Society, 12(3), 347-364.
Lefebvre, H. (1970/2003). The urban revolution (originally published as La révolution urbaine). University of Minnesota Press.
Srnicek, N. (2016). Platform capitalism. John Wiley & Sons.
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:13:35 +0100
From: Alex Mahoudeau <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Bravo
Hello,
To be honest I did not pay attention to the article until this email. I
have just read it. It reminds me of the nice title given by Didier Fassin
to one of his papers in 2011: "Political incorrectness is not sufficient to
be scientifically grounded".
Wishing you all a good day,
AM
2017-09-14 10:29 GMT+01:00 Willis N. Churnocht <[log in to unmask]>:
> What could be more critical and radical than putting forward an argument
> defending colonialism?
>
> Bravo to this chap for breaking the mold and being brave enough to raise
> some important questions.
>
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 07:54:10 -0400
From: Hillary Shaw <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: "The case for colonialism", outrage and response
Precisely. That was my intial concerns with the article (as a geographer interested in the history, development, economy, spaces, of Europe generally - specifically of its food and general retail and consumption systems). The concepts of governance were loosely used/glossed over - said in an earlier CG email, the 'governance issues' he mentions re postcolonial developing states have also occurred in Europe, e.g. Ireland, Scotland, Catalonia, Czechoslovakia, and especially Yugoslavia. And these governance issues can be blamed on the artifical national boundaries created especially in Africa, but also in S America, by those European colonisers.
You've got to love the spatially incompatible aims of the French in creating a continuous east-west bloc from Senegal to Djibouti with the British aims of a north-south bloc from Egypt to S Africa. Maybe, at Fashoda, they could have built an underpass or flyover? Then tossed a coin as to who got the ground level route? OK enough frivolity.But I did get a laugh out of his description of Britain, without the Roman occupation, as a 'backward Druid state'. One might walk from the City of London to the Isle of Dogs and think.....if only.
Dr Hillary J. Shaw
Director and Senior Research Consultant
Shaw Food Solutions
Newport
Shropshire
TF10 8QE
www.fooddeserts.org
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From: Stephen Linstead <[log in to unmask]>
To: CRIT-GEOG-FORUM <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thu, Sep 14, 2017 10:54 am
Subject: Re: "The case for colonialism", outrage and response
It also expects us to understand the meaning of the term before we use it.
On 14 Sep 2017 10:46 am, "Willis N. Churnocht" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
What could be more critical and radical than putting forward a case defending colonialism?
Bravo to this chap for being brave, breaking the mold and transcending the confines of left-wing thinking.
Academia asks us to think critically, after all.
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 12:14:57 +0000
From: "Tchoukaleyska, Roza" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: 2 tenure-track positions in Environmental Policy / Environmental Studies at Memorial University, Canada
Hello Everyone,
The School of Science and the Environment at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, is inviting applications for two tenure-track positions at the Assistant or Associate level in Environmental Policy/Studies with a preferred start day of January 1, 2018 (application deadline: October 27, 2017): http://www.grenfell.mun.ca/Departments/Pages/Administration-and-Governance/academic-positions.aspx
Tenure-track position in Environmental Policy: http://www.grenfell.mun.ca/Departments/Documents/Human%20Resources/Careers/Tenure%20Positions/EPI-Tenure-Track-Position.pdf
Tenure-track position in Environmental Studies: http://www.grenfell.mun.ca/Departments/Documents/Human%20Resources/Careers/Tenure%20Positions/EVST-Tenured-Track-Position.pdf
— —
Roza Tchoukaleyska
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies
Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland
20 University Drive
Corner Brook, NL, Canada A2H 5G4
Phone: 709.637.6214<tel:709.637.6214>
Fax: 709.639.8125<tel:709.639.8125>
This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions at http://www.grenfell.mun.ca/campus-services/Pages/information-technology-services/electronic-communications-disclaimer.aspx
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 08:35:37 -0400
From: Lindsay Naylor <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Univ. of Delaware Geography hiring TWO TT GIS positions
Deadline coming up (Oct. 1):<https://account.interfolio.com/dashboard>
University of Delaware: College of Earth, Ocean & Environment: Geography
<https://apply.interfolio.com/43278>
<https://apply.interfolio.com/43278>
Tenure-track Assistant Professorship in Geographic Information Science
and Large Spatial Data Analysis <https://apply.interfolio.com/43278>
Location: Newark, DE
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DELAWARE, NEWARK 19716. University of Delaware (USA). The Department of
Geography in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment invites
applications for a 9-month tenure track *Assistant Professor *beginning
September 2018. The Department seeks a scholar who shows exceptional
promise as an intellectual leader to advance research in the field of
*Geographic Information Science. *Successful candidates will be emerging
leaders in the area of spatial data analysis employing unique and
integrative approaches. and will be expected to build collaborations
across the University of Delaware through its strategic investment in
“big data” analytics.
The Geography Department at the University of Delaware is a nationally
and internationally recognized department that offers undergraduate
degrees in Geography, Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, and
Meteorology and Climatology, a Masters degree in Geography, and Ph.D.
degrees in both Climatology and Geography, and a graduate-level
certificate program in Geographic Information Science. Our research and
teaching interact extensively with programs across campus and beyond.
The successful candidate will be expected to develop an ambitious GIS
research program with a high level of publication and external support,
mentor students in our degree programs, and offer service to the
department, college, university, profession and community. The
candidate must have completed an internationally recognized doctoral
program at the time the position commences. A Ph.D. in geography, or a
closely related discipline with an emphasis on spatial data analysis is
desirable.
To be considered for this position, applicants should submit: 1) a
letter of application addressing their qualifications for the position,
research statement and teaching philosophy and experience 2) a
curriculum vitae 3) up to three publications as examples of the
candidate’s scholarship, and 4) contact information for three
references. The separate parts of the application must be combined as
one file before submitting it electronically at
http://www.udel.edu/jobs . Questions regarding this position (but not
applications) may be addressed to the committee chair Professor Daniel
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Review of
applications will begin on 1 October 2017, and will continue until the
position is filled. Further information about our department and
programs may be found at http://www.udel.edu/Geography.
Recognized by the Chronicle of Higher Education as one of America’s best
universities to work for in 2012, the University of Delaware is located
midway between Philadelphia and Baltimore, and is a Sea Grant, Space
Grant, and Land Grant institution. The University of Delaware is an
Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from minority
group members and women.
This institution is using Interfolio's Faculty Search to conduct this
search. Applicants to this position receive a free Dossier account and
can send all application materials, including confidential letters of
recommendation, free of charge.
Apply Now <https://dossier.interfolio.com/apply/43278>
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Lindsay Naylor
Assistant Professor | Department of Geography
University of Delaware | College of Earth, Ocean & Environment
Affiliate Faculty | Latin American and Iberian Studies | Women and
Gender Studies
[log in to unmask] | lindsaynaylor.wordpress.com
<https://lindsaynaylor.wordpress.com/> | @LB_Naylor
224 Pearson Hall | 302.831.8271
feminist geopolitics
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096262981730001X> |
food sovereignty
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.udel.idm.oclc.org/doi/10.1111/gere.12258/full>
| fair trade
<http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0263775817694031>
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 08:47:11 -0400
From: "JOSHUA F. INWOOD" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Final Call for Papers PSU Critical Conference
Apologies for cross posting. Final call for papers for the Penn State Critical Conference October 27-28. Abstracts due by 5pm tomorrow. Abstracts can be sent to:
[log in to unmask]
Cheers
josh
CALL FOR PAPERS
ENVISIONING THE FUTURE OF CRITICAL GEOGRAPHIES
24TH ANNUAL CRITICAL GEOGRAPHY CONFERENCE
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
OCTOBER 27-28, 2017
Recent developments in U.S. politics, culture and government – occurring alongside political upsurges and reconfigurations in several other countries and world regions – force us to take pause and consider the meaning of our work as critical geographers. While this contemporary moment is marked by the increasing precarity of both critical scholarly research and the lives of the communities with whom we work, it is also an opportunity to reimagine the work we do, how we do it, and why we do it.
It is in the context of this uncertain political present that we ask the geographic and larger academic community: What futures can we imagine for critical geographies? How can we leverage the intellectual and institutional infrastructures of critical geographies to address contemporary social issues and contribute to struggles for social justice? What conceptual and methodological tools do we possess, and what critical capacities have we yet to realize? What new questions, perspectives, and critical concepts – and more centrally, what new worlds – can critical geographies bring into being?
We invite perspectives from all subfields of geography and related fields and welcome approaches drawing on feminist, queer, post-colonial, political ecology, Marxist, anarchist, critical GIS and cartography, critical geography, settler studies, and critical race perspectives among others. We invite papers addressing the following themes and topics:
Envisioning alternative worlds: How can geographic knowledge and research address major contemporary social issues and/or contribute to struggles for social, political, environmental, and economic justice? We welcome research that imagines alternative futures and trajectories for human communities, including but not limited to research addressing the climate/environmental crisis, geopolitics, social justice, alternative currencies and economies, alternative energy and food systems, utopias/dystopias, etc.
(In)visible bodies: How can geographic thought and research address issues of identity, inequality, and violence at the site of the body and the everyday? How can geographic research make bodies invisible or visible, and with what consequences? We welcome research engaging critical work on identities, ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, and dis/ability that seeks to connect the body to larger systems of privilege, knowledge, and power.
Borders, divisions, and (inter)national space: How have critical geographies become even more relevant in the contemporary political moment, wherein xenophobia and the reassertion of national and ethnic identities increasingly set the tone for both reactionary and revolutionary political discourse across the globe? We welcome work on nationalisms, xenophobia, refugees, immigration, borders, urbanization, settler societies, geopolitics, and political economy that engages problems at the intersection of territories, places, spaces, and scales.
Critical (visual) methodologies and praxis: What critical (visual) methodologies and praxes can we incorporate into geographic work? We welcome work engaging qualitative methods, open-source, critical and/or participatory GIS and cartography, film geographies and theory, critical media studies, postcolonial and feminist methodologies, art-scholarship, etc. that imagine new ways to engage and apply geographic methodologies, methods, and praxis to rethink problems of geographic representation.
Visions for a new science: How must geographic knowledge, research, and pedagogy change to address existing and emerging social and political issues? How do we envision our work in geography intersecting with broader publics through activism, outreach, and the arts? How might we leverage critical geographies to resist the neoliberal consolidation of the academy and institutional prohibitions on critical academic work? We welcome work that asks critical questions of the discipline of geography (and more broadly, science) and considers possible futures for the academic institution.
Submission of Abstracts:
The conference will be composed of paper sessions as well as organized panel discussions. The format for papers will be 15 minutes + 5 minutes for Q&A. Please submit an abstract (200 words or less) to: [log in to unmask]
The abstract should include this information: Title, Organizer, Contact Information, Participants (if proposing a panel), Theme, and Abstract.
Panels are also encouraged. If you would like to organize a panel, please send an abstract and list of likely participants to: [log in to unmask]
We will also be organizing an art exhibit to display creative works (e.g. photography, film, visual arts, sculpture, etc.) engaging these themes. See this page for more details.
Abstracts are due by 5pm September 15, 2017.
Joshua Inwood, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Geography and
Senior Research Associate in the Rock Ethics Institute.
Affiliate Faculty Department of African American Studies.
Department of Geography
The Pennsylvania State University
311 Walker Building
University Park, PA 16802
[log in to unmask]
814-863-4894
Twitter: @JoshGeog
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 10:35:50 -0400
From: "Jacobsen, Malene H" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP AAG 2018: Geographies of Migrant Return and Removal
CFP: AAG Annual Meeting
New Orleans, LA | April 10-14, 2018
*Geographies of Migrant Return and Removal*
Organizers: Malene Jacobsen (University of Kentucky) and Austin Crane
(University of Washington)
Sponsored by the Political Geography Specialty Group
Recent scholarship has called attention to how processes of bordering are
becoming disconnected from state territorial borders, aiming to “manage”
migrants internally (Coleman and Kocher 2011), externally (Bialasiewicz
2012; Casas-Cortes, et al. 2013), and transnationally (Collyer and King
2015; Mountz and Loyd 2014). Scholars have addressed a variety of
geopolitical and biopolitical practices of migration management, such as
the growth of detention and deportation (Collyer 2012; Mountz, et al.
2013), the economics of detention (Conlon and Hiemstra 2016), frequent
transfers of detainees (Gill 2009), family detention (Martin 2011),
protracted waiting and legal ambiguity (Conlon 2011; Hyndman and Giles
2011), and the role of international humanitarian organizations
(Andrijasevic and Walters 2010; Ashutosh and Mountz 2011). This growing
field of literature calls attention to the discursive, spatial, and
(geo)political dimensions of how migration management is worked out within
and between various sites.
In conversation with this body of work, this session examines the
geographies of migrant return and removal. Migrant returns programs are an
integral component of migration and border management around the world
today, and are part of a long history of expulsion (Ngai 2004; Walters
2010). Western countries are employing various migrant removal policies –
from forcible deportation to Assisted Voluntary Return and Readmission
Agreements – to return non-citizens to their countries of origin or
transit. These programs are variously framed by institutions and
politicians as managing migration, as humanitarian, and as justified to
maintain security alongside the integrity of larger asylum systems. The
return and deportation of migrants have and continue to play an integral
role in the geopolitical landscape and biopolitical governance of migration
management.
We welcome submissions that address the politics, processes, and mechanics
of migrant removal, as well as the decisions and lived realities involved
with returning – of migrants and government/humanitarian practitioners. We
seek submissions that bring together various disciplinary perspectives,
research locations, and theoretical lenses (feminist geopolitics,
postcolonial studies, critical race studies, legal geography, critical
border studies, relational poverty, political economy, and related fields)
to better understand the geographies of return and removal in migration
management.
Possible themes and questions include:
- The political discourses and rationalities of return: what are the
logics and decisions involved in migrants returning or not (both from
governance and migrant perspectives)?
- The material processes and spaces of return: How does (voluntarily or
forced) return take place? What are the spaces that make return possible
(airports, detention centers, aircrafts, transit countries, offices, homes,
etc.)? Which actors, techniques, places, and programs are involved in
implementing or resisting returns?
- The geopolitics and biopolitics of return: how is political power
exercised and negotiated in relation to migrant returns (policies, laws,
technologies, institutional networks, geopolitical relations between
countries, and sovereignty over territory)?
- The historical geographies of return: What are the historical
geographies of migrant return and how might these spaces be linked to
present return programs?
Please submit titles and abstracts (250 words) by October 18th to Austin
Crane ([log in to unmask]) and Malene Jacobsen ([log in to unmask]). We
hope that participants will prepare to share paper drafts ahead of time in
order to enhance our discussion.
--
*Malene H. Jacobsen*
PhD Candidate
Department of Geography
University of Kentucky, Lexington
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 19:41:03 +0000
From: Rebecca Collins <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Job: Senior Lecturer in GIS and Risk Management (Chester, UK)
Dear all,
The Department of Geography & International Development at the University of Chester is seeking to appoint a new Senior Lecturer in GIS & Risk Management. Details can be found here:
https://jobs.chester.ac.uk/wrl/pages/vacancy.jsf?latest=00013073?
Best wishes,
Dr Rebecca Collins
Deputy Head of Department | Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Department of Geography & International Development | University of Chester
RGS-IBG Geographies of Children, Youth & Families Research Group (GCYFRG)
@GCYFRG | GCYFRG website<https://gcyfrg.wordpress.com/>
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:15:43 -0400
From: Jack Gieseking <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Job Announcement: Assistant Professor of Sustainable Urban Development, Urban Studies Program, Trinity College
Job announcement -- please forward widely. Apologies for cross-posting.
*Assistant Professor of Sustainable Urban Development, Urban Studies
Program, Trinity College *
The Urban Studies Program (URST) at Trinity College announces a
tenure-track position at the assistant professor level focused on
Sustainable Urban Development, with a comparative global perspective. We
particularly encourage applications from candidates with some range of the
following preferred qualifications and expertise: sustainable urban
development and environmental policy, international comparative urban
environmental policy, urban environmental health and policy, sustainable
urban design, sustainable urban transportation and infrastructure, global
climate change’s impacts in urban development, urban sustainability and
environmental justice, or intersections between social and environmental
movements and urban sustainability dynamics. Interests in urban Geographic
Information Systems (GIS), spatial statistics and data visualization
applications to sustainable urban development will be considered, but are
not required. The geographical regions of specialization are open, although
primary research in regions other than North America is preferred; an
international and comparative perspective on sustainable urban development
and environmental policy is imperative.
The successful applicant will be expected to teach courses in her/his
specialty, including a basic course on sustainable urban development and a
core course entitled, “From Hartford to World Cities.” URST is an
interdisciplinary program, and thus we welcome applicants from a number of
disciplines. Candidates should hold a PhD or have a completed PhD by the
time of appointment in a relevant field such as urban planning, urban
studies, environmental studies, public policy, geography, sociology, or
anthropology. The teaching load is 2/2 for the first two years (and 3/2
thereafter) with a one-semester leave every fourth year. The successful
candidate will be housed in the Urban Studies Program.
Trinity College, located in Hartford, Connecticut, is a coeducational
independent, nonsectarian liberal arts college with approximately 2,200
undergraduate students and 200 faculty members. Candidates should have a
strong commitment to undergraduate and interdisciplinary teaching in a
liberal arts context, and a well-articulated plan for sustained research.
An AA/EOE, the college is committed to attracting and supporting a faculty
of women and men who fully represent the racial, ethnic, and cultural
diversity of the United States.
Please submit a letter of application (including statement of research and
teaching interests), CV, transcripts, a writing sample or access to a
digital portfolio, and at least three letters of reference. Review of files
will begin on November 1 and continue until the position is filled.
Once a completed dossier is submitted, automatic emails will be generated
to each reference provider, directing each referee to a unique URL where he
or she must go to upload a letter of recommendation. Applicants using
Interfolio (or other dossier service) should provide the appropriate unique
Interfolio email address for each reference letter writer.
To apply, please visit: https://trincoll.peopleadmin.com/.
FORWARDED BY
--
Jen Jack Gieseking
Assistant Professor of Public Humanities
American Studies Program, Trinity College
300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106
www.jgieseking.org
www.peopleplacespace.org
@jgieseking <https://twitter.com/jgieseking>
Pronouns: he/him/his
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 23:41:24 +0300
From: Marieke <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Bravo
When defending colonialism is seen by someone on this list as critical and
radical, we are surely living in interesting times. Bravo to this chap for
showing how utterly surreal the debate has become in recent times, and for
minimizing and ignoring the pain and deaths of millions of people. It's a
great time to be alive!
Marieke Krijnen
Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)
www.orient-instut.org
Rue Hussein Beyhum
Zokak el-Blat, Beirut
T: +961 71 043 177
https://orient-institut.academia.edu/MariekeKrijnen
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Alex Mahoudeau <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> To be honest I did not pay attention to the article until this email. I
> have just read it. It reminds me of the nice title given by Didier Fassin
> to one of his papers in 2011: "Political incorrectness is not sufficient to
> be scientifically grounded".
>
> Wishing you all a good day,
>
> AM
>
> 2017-09-14 10:29 GMT+01:00 Willis N. Churnocht <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> What could be more critical and radical than putting forward an argument
>> defending colonialism?
>>
>> Bravo to this chap for breaking the mold and being brave enough to raise
>> some important questions.
>>
>
>
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 22:05:40 +0100
From: owain jones BSU <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: FW: International Symposium this weekend - Bodily Undoing: Somatic Activism and Performance Cultures as Practices of Critique
Just sharing this from BSU – a great looking event
Cheers
From: Pamela Karantonis [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 14 September 2017 21:53
To: BSU Staff - Academic Staff
Subject: International Symposium this weekend - Bodily Undoing: Somatic Activism and Performance Cultures as Practices of Critique
Dear Colleagues,
This weekend, we are hosting an international symposium -
Bodily Undoing: Somatic Activism and Performance Cultures
as Practices of Critique
at Newton Park Campus September 16th & 17th 2017
<https://bodilyundoing.wordpress.com/bodily-undoing-somatic-activism-and-performance-cultures-as-practices-of-critique-16-17-09-2017-symposium-at-bath-spa-university/> Bodily Undoing
The symposium brings together more than 50 world-leading somatic performance practitioners, scholars and educational activists to articulate, celebrate and debate current developments of the trans-disciplinary field of Somatic Practices. Somatic Practices are traditionally affiliated with embodied health and self-care practices, developments in embodied cognitive studies and with the training of moving performers. This symposium aims to broaden the focus of Somatic Practices toward their application within the social field, as cultural activism, critical education and trans-disciplinary performance practices within the face of growing global ecological and cultural crises that question our human existence.
Join us for performances, talks, video screenings, workshops and debates. The event is free of charge for CoLA staff. Bath Spa Live Event <https://www.bathspalive.com/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=21FEFCFA-2B72-4C8C-8CA7-535AE0247718&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=45A0930E-F409-410F-8188-B35DF738A046>
This symposium launches the Journal for Dance Somatic Practices (JDSP) Volume 9.1 - ‘Bodily Undoing – Somatics as Practice of Critique’ co-edited by Kirsty Alexander and Thomas Kampe.
The event is supported through the Creative Corporealities research group, and through the Environmental Humanities Research Centre of Bath Spa University.
Delegates will join us from these countries:
Canada, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Malta, The Netherlands, Spain, South Africa Portugal, United Kingdom, United States
Participating Universities:
University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland ; University of Bedfordshire, UK; University of Bristol, UK; University of Chichester, UK; Concordia University, Canada ; Coventry University, UK Edge Hill University, UK; Goldsmiths, University of London, UK; University of Houston, USA; University of Kent, UK; Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal;Liverpool John Moores University, UK; London Metropolitan University, UK; London Southbank University, UK; University of Malta; Palucca Hochschule für Tanz, Dresden, Germany; Regent's University, London, UK; Roehampton University; Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK; United Nations University Institute; Wake Forest University, USA ; University of Winchester, UK; Winston-Salem State University, USA ; York University, Canada
Arts / Social Organisations
AREAL_artistic research lab, Berlin; aRTSjAM Arts Therapies Improvisation Collaborative
Basis voor de Aktuele Kunst (BAK) Utrecht, The Netherlands; Body-Mind Centering, UK
Culture Current; The David Glass Ensemble; The Institute for Somatics and Social Justice, US
National Health Service (NHS); Mental Health Therapies Service;Project Row Houses, USA
Screendance Africa; Somatische Akademie Berlin, Germany; Soundboxed, London
West End House, Boston, USA
Looking forward to seeing you there
The Convening Team
Thomas Kampe, Pamela Karantonis, Silvia Carderelli-Gronau, Tamara Ashley
--
Dr Pamela Karantonis
Senior Lecturer in Acting (Voice)
CPG19, Newton Park Campus
Bath Spa University
Bath
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 22:19:39 +0000
From: Holly Randell-Moon <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Bravo
https://media.giphy.com/media/uhb6NTQaEhHxu/giphy.gif
Dr Holly Randell-Moon
Department of Media, Film and Communication
University of Otago
PO Box 56
Dunedin 9054
New Zealand Tel 64 3 479 3724
http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/otago052356.html
'You give way to an enemy this evil with this much power and you condemn the galaxy to an eternity of submission' - Jyn Erso
I SUPPORT HUMANITIES AT OTAGO<http://teu.ac.nz/portfolio/love-humanities/>
Race and Whiteness Studies/ Religion Area Chair, Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand<http://popcaanz.com/>
Security, Race, Biopower: Essays on Technology and Corporeality<http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137554079>
Religion After Secularization in Australia<http://www.palgrave.com/br/book/9781137536891>
________________________________
From: A forum for critical and radical geographers <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Marieke <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, 15 September 2017 8:41 a.m.
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Bravo
When defending colonialism is seen by someone on this list as critical and radical, we are surely living in interesting times. Bravo to this chap for showing how utterly surreal the debate has become in recent times, and for minimizing and ignoring the pain and deaths of millions of people. It's a great time to be alive!
Marieke Krijnen
Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)
www.orient-instut.org<http://www.orient-instut.org>
Rue Hussein Beyhum
Zokak el-Blat, Beirut
T: +961 71 043 177
https://orient-institut.academia.edu/MariekeKrijnen
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Alex Mahoudeau <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Hello,
To be honest I did not pay attention to the article until this email. I have just read it. It reminds me of the nice title given by Didier Fassin to one of his papers in 2011: "Political incorrectness is not sufficient to be scientifically grounded".
Wishing you all a good day,
AM
2017-09-14 10:29 GMT+01:00 Willis N. Churnocht <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>:
What could be more critical and radical than putting forward an argument defending colonialism?
Bravo to this chap for breaking the mold and being brave enough to raise some important questions.
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