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Commodities, Culture and Consumption: Interdisciplinary Debates
Call for papers: RGS/IBG Annual Conference, University of Sussex, Brighton,
UK, 4-7 January 2000
Proposals for papers are invited for a half-day session entitled
Commodities, culture and consumption: interdisciplinary debates. The
session is sponsored by the Women and Geography Study Group.
Contemporary debates surrounding commodities, culture and consumption have
taken on a strongly interdisciplinary inflection. There has been a growing
exchange of theoretical ideas and approaches among researchers working in
(for example) geography, anthropology, cultural studies, gender studies and
cultural history. This session aims to build upon these dialogues, and to
bring together researchers interested in (geographies of) consumption,
commodity cultures, and the entanglements of culture and economy through
commodity flows. We particularly welcome papers which foreground the
gendered nature of consumption discourses, practices and spaces. For
example, although much work within the literature on commodity chains and
systems of provision has emphasised class inequalities within the global
economy, relatively little attention has been devoted to the gender
relations involved in circuits of production, distribution and consumption.
We invite abstracts (approximately 200 words; to be submitted by 1 August
1999) which speak to themes such as:
* consumption, identity and subjectivity
* gender and the politics of consumption
* historical geographies of consumer cultures
Interested contributors are most welcome to contact the convenors prior to
the submission of an abstract.
Convenors: Dr. Suzanne Reimer, Department of Geography, University of
Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX UK Tel: +44 (0)1482 465353 Fax: +44 (0)1492
466340
Email: [log in to unmask]
Dr. Alex Hughes, Department of Geography, University
of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ UK Tel: +44 (0)1703
594619
Fax: +44 (0)1703 593295 Email: [log in to unmask]
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Dr. Suzanne Reimer
Department of Geography
University of Hull
Hull HU6 7RX
Telephone: +44 (0)1482 465385 or 465353 (direct)
Fax: +44 (0)1482 466340
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