Second Call for Papers: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Cardiff University, 28-31 August 2018
Historical-Cultural Geographies of Exhibition and Display
Session Organiser: Dr James Robinson (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Sponsored by the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG)
Geographers have long expressed an interest in the practices and spaces of exhibition and display, from museum spaces and art installations (Geoghagen, 2010; Hawkins, 2008) to festivals, parades and a range of commemorative acts and landscapes (Cudney, 2014; Johnson, 1995; Marston, 2002). These engagements have taken place in conjunction with a diverse range of geographical themes: exploring the discipline’s colonial legacies (Driver, 2013), the construction of imperial landscapes (Driver and Gilbert, 1999), cultures of remembrance (Johnson, 2003), and socio-cultural representations of nature (Naylor, 2002), to name some examples. Moreover, these accounts have often reflected upon the role of display and exhibition in the construction and contestation of a myriad of identities – of nationality (Kong and Yeoh, 1997), gender (Whitehead, 2008), sexuality (Johnston, 2008) and the non-human (Anderson, 1995).
This session seeks to provide a forum for ongoing discussions about the historical-cultural geographies of exhibition and display. Contributions to the session may be historical or contemporary in nature. Themes for consideration include (but are by no means limited to):
• Material landscapes and cultures of display and exhibition
• Performative and enacted spaces of display
• Sensuous geographies of display and exhibition
• Parades and ritualised cultures of display
• Cultural and contested politics of exhibition
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words, along with a title, author details (and affiliation) and contact details, to James Robinson ([log in to unmask]) by Friday 9th February 2018.
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