A translation into simpler language please!
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999 16:32:08 +0100 (BST) John Wylie Postgraduate
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> 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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Dept. of Geography & Earth Sciences
Brunel University
Uxbridge Middx. UB8 3PH, UK
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/geo
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