Just a brief reminder of the Geographies of Languages session at next year's
IBG. Further details provided below, and the deadline for abstracts is June
15. We've got various abstracts on languages and development, politics,
literature, pedagogy and identity, but any further or wider contributions
would be welcome.
Luke Desforges
Rhys Jones
Geographies of Languages/Languages of Geography
Call for Papers RGS-IBG 2000
Proposals for papers are invited by 15 June 1999 for a session at RGS-IBG
2000 at Sussex University (4-7 January 2000) on the Geographies of
Languages/Languages of Geography. The session is organised by the Social and
Cultural Geography Study Group.
The session focuses on the politics and power of language in contemporary
geographies. We look forward to contributions that discuss geographical
perspectives on languages, the contested spaces of language at a variety of
spatial scales and historical moments, as well as the politics of languages
(particularly the use of English) in the production of geographical knowledge.
We hope to cover some of the following areas:
· Geo-linguistics
· The historical geographies of languages:
· The regulation of languages and dialects.
· The impacts of new media and technologies.
· Language and the organisation of power in the spheres of:
· education
· the media
· law
· popular culture
· state politics and nationalism
· Minority language movements and the politics of bi-/multi-lingualism.
· The role of the English language in academic geography.
· The politics of languages, writing and publishing.
· Pedagogy and languages.
· Languages and the agendas of human geography.
· Fieldwork, translation and geographical (mis)understandings.
· Multiculturalism, minority rights and the multi-lingual university.
· Languages, class and cultural capital.
We are currently hoping to produce a uniquely multi-lingual space for this
session, by making available facilities for simultaneous translation
(confirmation to follow). The experience of taking part in a linguistically
diverse environment where geographers can present in the language of their
choice could be a step towards a multilingual geography in its own right.
For further information or to send abstracts, please contact:
Rhys Jones or Luke Desforges
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Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences
University of Wales Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth
SY23 3DB
Wales
UK
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Prifysgol Cymru Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth
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