AAG 1999: POWER, SPACE AND SOCIAL REGULATION
Paper proposals are invited for a series of special sessions concerned with
the intersection of power, space and regulation, to be held at the Annual
Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, 24-27 March in
Honolulu, Hawaii.
These sessions build on the three "Legal Mappings' sessions held at the
Boston AAG, which brought together scholars interested in exploring an
array of geographic questions - including globalization, property,
community, nature and policing - from a critically informed legal
perspective.
Our interest is not in law per se, but in thinking through the geographies
of power with reference to legal norms, codes and practices. We recognise
that law need not be thought of only in formalised terms (eg statute,
case-law etc), but also as present in all sorts of localised social and
political practices and conceptions. We particularly welcome the
involvement of those who might not immediately think of their work as
falling within the 'law-geography' ambit.
We would welcome papers that fall within a range of core theoretical themes:
NATURE: How is nature legally constructed? How do conceptions of
nature enter into legal discourses and practices? How is nature 'owned'?
How are legal constructions of nature implicated in power relations?
VIOLENCE: How might violence be rethought in the context of spatial
matrices? How do legal structures, such as torts, structure the ways in
which violence can be understood and analyzed, or injuries can be
compensated for? How are transnational relations thus structured? How do
institutions such as marriage or law enforcement influence the ways in
which violence is privatized or materializes in public discourses?
IDENTITY: How are identities negotiated through legal
constructions such as "what counts as injury"? How do legal stories depend
on certain boundings of identity? How (and with what consequences) are
"acts"assumed by posited identities or vice versa? How might these
questions establish the relative safety or dangers of certain places?
**** NEEDED BY JUNE 30:
What is needed now is an expression of interest in participating. If
you are interested in giving a presentation in these special sessions,
please email a response to either NICK BLOMLEY ([log in to unmask]) or SARAH
JAIN ([log in to unmask]) indicating your:
NAME /AFFILIATION
GENERAL CONTENT OF THE PRESENTATION
RELATION TO CORE THEMES
Informal enquiries, of course, are also welcome. If you are interested in
acting as a session Chair, please also respond as soon as possible.
**** NEEDED BY AUGUST 20
Each person participating in the session must submit the following
materials to NICK BLOMLEY by August 20, 1998:
1) A completed Program Participation form.
2) The Participation Fee
3) An Abstract
More information on the conference is available at http://www.aag.org.
Sarah Jain
History of Consciousness,
UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA
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Nick Blomley
Department of Geography
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, CANADA
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N i c k B l o m l e y
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6,
CANADA
(604) 291-3713 (tel)
(604) 291-5841 (fax)
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'Hostility to theory usually means an opposition to other people's theories
and an oblivion to one's own' (Terry Eagleton, 1983)
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