Dear Critics
Just in time for Easter, here's another 'call for papers' for next year's
RGS/IBG. We'd be very grateful if list members could pass this message on
to anybody they know that might be interested in contributing to the
session. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with any queries etc.
John Wylie
pp Paul Harrison, J-D Dewsbury
Enacting Geographies
Call for papers RGS-IBG 2000
Proposals for papers are invited by 15th June 1999 for a half-day session
at RGS-IBG 2000 at Sussex University (4-7 January), on the topic of
'Enacting Geographies'. The session is being organised by the History and
Philosophy of Geography Research Group.
The aim of this session is not to 'add' the body to human geography, but
rather to attempt to rethink geographies through embodiment. This
highlights a growing interest in the constitutive role of practice and the
embodied 'enactment' of geographies. In focusing upon enactment, the aim
is to foreground the materialities of 'everyday' embodied practice and
processual, relational understandings of subjectivities and spaces. We
welcome both 'theoretical' discussions, 'empirical' exemplars, and
especially contributions which problematise this unhelpful dualism.
Below are some themes/issues with which we would like to engage - although
this is in no way an exhaustive list:
7 Enactment and embodiment as methods in the production of geographical
knowledges.
7 'Hidden' histories of embodiment within geographical traditions
7 How can enactment be 'written'? Is the lived body excessive and
irretrievable?
7 Embodied stylistics and habits in the production of 'everyday'
geographies.
7 Post-phenomenological, ecological, and non-cognitive approaches to
perception and affect.
7 Materiality, corporeality and dwelling.
7 How might an embodied, performative ontology transform traditional
interpretative categories, such as 'social structure', 'historical
context', 'imagined geographies'?
7 Where does the body end?
Proposals should include a title and a short abstract (200-300 words).
They should be sent, along with any queries or suggestions, to one of the
following convenors:
John Wylie
School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, University Road,
Bristol, BS8 1SS.
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Paul Harrison
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J-D Dewsbury
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