2nd Call for Papers: Creative approaches to everyday historical geographies.
2020 Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers Annual International Conference, London, 1st – 4th September 2020.
*Apologies for cross posting*
Consideration of everyday practices are now a fundamental component of much geographical study. Since the middle of the twentieth century, geographical engagements with philosophical frameworks such as Marxism, Feminism and Post-Colonialism have emphasized the importance of thinking about individuals’ diverse engagements with geographical space and have encouraged explorations of the relationships between space and individuals’ daily practices and relationships. Historical geographers have enthusiastically engaged with these explorations of the everyday, recently raising questions about issues such as secretaries’ experiences of Colonial Zambia (Haines, 2019), individuals’ engagements with the borders in socialist Albania (Vullnetari, 2019), and how human-animal relations during the Second World War provide insights into the emotional geographies of the Blitz (Howell and Kean, 2018).
However, exploring everyday historical geographies is not always straight forward when conducting research reliant on institutional, political, legal or financial archival sources. Indeed, the heavily edited and curated nature of archival collections makes it difficult to fully understand any ordinary individuals’ daily, potentially mundane, practices and relationships. Nevertheless, historical geographers have already shown how a range of creative methods - including experimental practices (Patchett, 2016), material explorations (Slatter, 2019), and participatory methods (DeSilvey, 2007) – can be utilized to explore the personal and intricate geographies of individuals’ everyday lives.
Building on these existing approaches, this session invites papers that showcase the potential of far-reaching creative methods for undertaking historical geographies of the everyday. Papers could address topics including, but not restricted to:
• Participatory engagements with official archives to uncover the everyday
• Material culture and the historical geographies of the everyday
• Affect and nonrepresentational approaches to the everyday
• Visual sources and the everyday
• Oral histories and the everyday
Submissions from graduate students, early career scholars and those in established posts are all welcome. Please contact [log in to unmask] for more details.
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to [log in to unmask] by 15th January 2020. In a separate paragraph, please provide details of any special audio-visual requirements or mobility requirements.
Ruth Slatter
Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Hull
@ruthslatter
References:
DeSilvey, C. (2007) Salvage Memory: constellating material histories on a hardscrabble homestead. Cultural Geographies, 14.3, 401-424.
Haines, E. (2019) Visions from behind a desk? Archival performance and the re‐enactment of colonial bureaucracy. Area, 51.1, 25-34.
Howell, P. and Kean, H. (2018) The dogs that didn't bark in the Blitz: transpecies and transpersonal emotional geographies on the British home front. Journal of Historical Geography, 61, 44-52.
Patchett, M. (2016) The taxidermist’s apprentice: stitching together the past and present of a craft practice. Cultural Geographies, 23.2, 401-419.
Slatter, R. (2019) Materiality and the extended geographies of religion: the institutional design and everyday experiences of London's Wesleyan Methodist circuits, 1851–1932. Journal of Historical Geography, 64, 60-71.
Vullnetari, J. (2019) ‘Dancing in the mouth of the wolf’: constructing the border through everyday life in socialist Albania. Journal of Historical Geography, 63, 82-93.
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