CALL FOR PAPERS
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Session Proposal: Southern Africa in Transition/s
RGS-IBG Annual Conference, University of Leicester , 5th-7th January
1999
Convenors: Cheryl McEwan, School of Geography, University of
Birmingham, Jenny Robinson, Department of Geography, London School of
Economics and James D. Sidaway, School of Geography, University of
Birmingham
Southern Africa is experiencing a period of enormous transitions,
both in terms of political economies and related socio-cultural
changes. The end of apartheid in South Africa relates to new forms of
economic relations and governance in Southern Africa as a whole, as
well as bringing about fundamental political, economic and social
change within the Republic itself. In the light of these transitions
this session, sponsored by the Developing Areas Research Group and
the Political Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG, seeks to
address the following issues:
* the spatiality of political, economic and socio-cultural change in
Southern Africa;
* the restructuring of political, cultural and economic relations
between South Africa and neighbouring states;
* the relationship between Southern Africa and the rest of the
African continent;
* Southern African spaces in global contexts
We invite submissions from geographers and other social scientists
working on these or related topics. If you are interested in
presenting a paper, please send a title and abstract (of up to 150
words) with details of your institutional affiliation to:
Cheryl McEwan, School of Geography, University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK. [log in to unmask]
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15th May 1998
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