Call for papers for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, 1-4 September 2020
*Earth and its Others: the Geographies of Science Fiction*
Session organisers:
Christine Bichsel ([log in to unmask])
Lorenzo Andolfatto ([log in to unmask])
This session aims to explore the geographies of science fiction. So far, geography's engagement with science fiction has been limited (e.g., Kitchin and Kneale 2002, Kneale 2011 Dunnett 2019). The analysis of science fiction is a lively field in literary and cultural studies (Suvin 1979, Jameson 2007, Chu 2010). Recently, scholars also examined science fiction for planetary environment and ecologies (Otto 2012, Baratta 2012, Caravan and Robinson 2014, Pak 2016). This session defines science fiction broadly as fiction that explores our relationship to Earth and the universe (Mendelson 2003). It takes as a starting point that science fiction is a genre and mode of writing that matches up with the planetary level of thinking (Buell 2005). Science fiction creates spaces of reflexivity about Earth's future (Bernardo 2014). It renders our experience of Earth strange. As a thought experiment, it defamiliarises space and time to look at our predicament from a distance (Swanston et al. 2015). The objective of this session is to examine how science fiction engages with the planetary scale, how geographical approaches advance the analysis of science fiction, and how science fiction takes shape as a situated practice.
We welcome papers that engage critically with the geographies of science fiction, including but not limited to the following themes:
* Feminist /postcolonial/post-human approaches to science fiction
* Methodologies for analysis of science fiction
* Alternative environments and spaces of science fiction
* The planetary scale of science fiction
* Science fiction and political visions
* Science fiction as a situated and lived practice
We aim to produce a peer-reviewed special issue from this session.
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 7 February 2020. Please email the following details to Christine Bichsel ([log in to unmask]):
* Title
* Abstract of your paper (max. 250 words)
* Contact information (name, affiliation, email address)
For more information, please contact Christine Bichsel ([log in to unmask]).
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