CALL FOR PAPERS - RGS-IBG ANNUAL CONFERENCE BRIGHTON 2000
The RGS-IBG POST-SOCIALIST GEOGRAPHIES (Limited Life Working Party)
is organising a one-day session at the RGS-IBG 2000 Conference.
The session seeks to attracts geographers and others who are working
on any aspect of the geography of post-socialist areas (including
economic, social, political, regional and cultural topics and
approaches) including East and Central Europe, FSU, Central Asia,
China, S and SE Asia, Cuba and Africa. The session seeks to develop
theoretical and empirical understandings of the economic, political,
social, cultural and environmental aspects of transformation in
post-socialist areas.
Offers of papers - including a title, an abstract of up to 200 words,
and the names, contact addresses and emails of author(s) - should be
send to the group’s secretary Dr Craig Young (contact details at the
end of this message) by:- 15th June 1999. An e-mail attachment in Word
format is preferred (hard copy should be accompanied by a disk
version).
We would particularly welcome papers which address the themes laid out
below:
1. Post-Socialist Geographies - papers should be concerned with
overviews of change in post-socialist areas especially those concerned
with theories of transition
2. Cultural Geographies of Post-Socialism - papers should cover
topics such as minorities, nationalism, new social movements,
empowerment, identity, sexuality, feminism, gender and
radical/critical environmental perspectives
3. Government and Governance under Post-Socialism - here the focus is
on topics such as reform of regional and local government and
centre-local relations, governance structures, regime formation, place
marketing, local economic development, policy, governance of
environmental issues etc
4. Post-Socialism and the Politics and Policies of Resources and the
Environment (joint module with DARG) - this module is concerned with
approaches to and case studies of political ecologies of natural
resources which contribute to our understanding of the relationship
between political ecology and environmental geography, including such
issues as institutional change (e.g. privatisation, state regulation,
water sector restructuring) or social exclusion and conflict around
resources, geographies of shortage etc.
Dr Craig Young
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Dr. Craig Young
Senior Lecturer in Geography,
Manchester Metropolitan University,
Department of Environmental and
Geographical Sciences,
John Dalton Building,
Chester Street,
Manchester,
M1 5GD.
Ph: 0161-247-6198/1602.
Fax: 0161-247-6318.
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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