Call for papers: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Royal Geographical Society, London, 28–30 August 2018
England as a diaspora space
Session convenors: Amy Clarke (Queen Mary University of London), Saskia Papadakis (Royal Holloway University of London)
Twenty-eight years after Avtar Brah first published Cartographies of Diaspora, this session encourages Geographers to re-engage with her ideas, and those of other post- and decolonial scholars, to examine how nation is made, claimed and contested.
At a time when national spaces, narratives and histories are being fought over around the world, we ask what it might mean to think of England as a diaspora space, somewhere created by movers and stayers, and intimately connected to other places, spaces and times.
How might such theories trouble dominant understandings of the ways in which England is seen, experienced and reproduced? Is there a space for rethinking England and Englishness? And what potential does such a rethinking offer for creating more inclusive and hopeful futures?
In addition to papers relating to Brah's ideas, we encourage contributions that engage with:
- Inclusive/exclusive national hi/stories
- Plurality, multiplicity, complexity
- Routes and roots
- Postcolonial continuities and discomfort
- Autochthone politics, whiteness, myths of origin and authenticity.
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Amy Clarke ([log in to unmask]) by 25th January 2018. These should include a title, author affiliation and email address.
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