With just one week until the deadline, please see the following call for papers and share widely across your networks. The session is being sponsored by the Race, Culture and Equality Working Group of the RGS-IBG and invites scholars of all career stages working in Geography and related disciplines.
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent to [log in to unmask] by 25th January 2019, including a title and any institutional affiliations.
We look forward to receiving your abstracts soon.
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Call for papers: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, 28–30 August 2019
‘England as a diaspora space’
Convenors: Amy Clarke (Queen Mary University of London), Saskia Papadakis (Royal Holloway University of London)
Sponsor: Race, Culture and Equality Working Group (RACE) of the RGS-IBG
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 and the questions above, we encourage contributions (on England and beyond) that engage with debates on:
- Inclusive/exclusive national hi/stories
- Autochthone politics, whiteness, myths of origin and authenticity
- Plurality, multiplicity, complexity
- Routes and roots
- Postcolonial continuities and discomfort
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