Dear All
This is a Call for Papers for next year's AAG in
Pittsburgh, on the theme of 'Enacting Geographies'. The session is
being organised by Mitch Rose and myself, but can anyone interested please
contact Mitch (his address is below), as I'm not going to be around for
the next week or so. We'd be grateful if list members could pass this
message on to people who they think might find this of interest..
best wishes
john wylie
Enacting Geographies: performativity, phenomenology, embodied spatiality.
Call for papers AAG 2000 Pittsburgh
The aim of this double session is to examine the growing impact of
performativity on theories of space and embodiment. Specifically it
endeavours to highlight a growing interest in the constitutive role of
'enactment' in the constitution of everyday geographies. Following the
(re)awakening of geographical interest in phenomenology,
overdetermination, and embodiment, the aim is to foreground materialities
of practice and relational understanding of subjectivities and spaces. By
thus focusing on the performative constitution and relational enactment of
spatiality, the session hopes to challenge the dyad of
constructivism/empiricism still central to conceptions of 'space' and
'place' within cultural geography.
We would very much welcome contributions which address themes and issues
such as the following:
1) Enactment and embodiment as methods in the production of geographical
knowledges.
2) Embodied stylistics and habits in the production of 'everyday'
geographies
3) Post-phenomenological, ecological, and non-cognitive approaches to
perception and affect.
4) Materiality, corporeality and dwelling.
5) The transformation of traditional interpretative rubrics, e.g.
'imagined geographies'.
6) Where does the body end?
Session co-organised by John Wylie (University of Bristol) and Mitch Rose
(University of Cambridge). Abstracts no longer than 250 words should be
sent by email, along with any inquiries, to:
Mitch Rose
Emmanuel College
University of Cambridge
Cambridge
CB2 3AP
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* Please note the closing date is August 27th! *
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