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To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>, Subject: 'Beyond the Academy?' Provisional Programme Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:44:13 +0100 From: Duncan Fuller <[log in to unmask]> Apologies for cross-postings. Please find below the provisional =programme for the 'Beyond the Academy? Critical Geographies in Action' conference being held at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, 12-14th = September 2001. We are now taking bookings for this conference - please download = a booking form from within the conference web-pages, situated at: http://online.northumbria.ac.uk/faculties/ss/gem/conferences/beyond.html= and return this form, with payment, by the end of August 2001. Upon = receipt of your booking form and payment, you will be sent information on local accommodation. Hope to see you in September for what should be a stimulating event! ------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---- ---- Beyond the Academy? Critical Geographies in Action Provisional Programme Opening Paper Duncan Fuller (UNN) and Rob Kitchin (NUI Maynooth) Beyond the Academy?: Critical Geographies in Action Session 1: 13.30-15.30 Keith Halfacree (Swansea) 'I could only do wrong': academics, academic research and DiY culture Chris Wilbert (Anglia) 'Say something constructive': Critique today James DeFilippis (King's College London) What if 'the community' is wrong? Politics, ethics and insider/outsider issues in participatory research. Paul Routledge (Glasgow) Relational ethics and critical engagement Session 2: 16.00-18.00 Rachel Pain (Durham) Whose account counts? Reflections on PRA and tyranny in the 'developed' world. David Crouch (Derby) Working for empowerment and inclusivity: engaging in the everyday Ray Hudson (Durham) tbc Ron Martin (Oxford) Doing policy research: assessing the local impact of Labour's new deal Session 3a: 8.30-10.30 Alan R. Townsend (Durham) Learning from experience in local governance Peter O'Brien and Andy Pike (Newcastle) Working with the trade unions in regional development and governance in = the North-East of England Richard Meegan (Liverpool) and Caitr=EDona N=ED Laoire (Queen's) The role of geographers in policy evaluation: lessons from Merseyside Andrew Collins, John Kirkby, Phil O'Keefe (Northumbria) Learning by doing: lessons from disaster management Session 3b: 8.30-10.30 Gavin Brown (King's College London) Critical entanglements in East London: journeys of a queer geographer through consultancy work and activism Kelly Barclay (Wellington) Pakeha and Praxis: locating theory and practice within an ethnicised politics of difference in Aotearoa New Zealand Paul Chatterton (Newcastle) 'Squatting is still legal, necessary and free'. A brief intervention in = the corporate city Andrew Donaldson (Newcastle) Nyns ov vy Sowsnek: research in the (mine)field with Cornish = nationalists. Session 4a: 11.00-13.00 Dave Featherstone (OU) Engaging with the Imaginative Geographies of Counter-Globalisation = Politics David Wood (Newcastle) The Changing Composition and Tactics of Anti-Globalization Activism = from MAI to GATS: an Actor-Network Interpretation.=20 Michael Duckett (Newcastle) Oi! Recuperator! - An Anarchist Critique of Research Marie Cieri (Rutgers) Activists Speak Out: Reflections on the Pursuit of Change in America Session 4b: 11.00-13.00 Andrew Jones (Birkbeck) Thinking Beyond the Think-Tank: political research from an academic background Geoff O'Brien and Phil O'Keefe (Northumbria) Politics and the Academy - Do they mix? Rhys Evans (Aberdeen) Making Discursive Interventions Catherine White and Cathy Bailey (Northumbria) Ethics in qualitative geography Session 5a: 14.00-16.00 Jane Tooke (Goldsmiths) Working with communities: the politics of participation=20 Mike Kesby (St Andrews) Beyond the participatory arena: a Foucauldian reading of empowerment?=20 Mark Goodwin, Dawn Armstrong-Esther (Aberystwyth), Jenny Deaville = (Institute of Rural Health), Marie Grannell (Powys and Ceredigion Health Promotion Unit) Linking Participation, Evaluation and Implementation: Some Key Issues = in Undertaking Action Research David Storey (Worcester) Contract Research: Problems and Possibilities Session 5b: 14.00-16.00 Marc Garrett (Furtherfield.org) Reclaiming the Artists' Identity Judith Tsouvalis (Oxford) Critical Immobility -The dilemmas posed by the Crisis of Representation = Michael Woods (Aberystwyth) Critical Engagements with a Changing Countryside: A speculative agenda. Andrew Jonas (Hull) Conservation and death threats (working title) Session 6: 16.30-18.00 Jenny Robinson (OU) 'The Practice of post--colonial Geography' or 'Can Geography be Post-colonialised?' Janet Townsend (Durham) A feminist in the new NGO-mediated imperialism Paul Cloke (Bristol) Exploring boundaries of professional/personal practice and action: = being and becoming in Khayelitsha Township, Cape Town. Session 7: 9.00-10.30 Tim Angus, Ian Cook, James Evans et al (Birmingham) Material culture and cyborg pedagogy Gill Valentine (Sheffield) Beyond queer theory: using academic work to challenge heteronormativity = in the classroom and queer educational practice Tim Unwin (Royal Holloway) Bridging the digital divide: partnership, ethics, and geographical = praxis Session 8: 11.00-13.00 Dave Sibley (Hull) tbc Noel Castree (Manchester) 'Border geography' Discussion: issues and agendas for an engaged critical geography Duncan Fuller (Northumbria) and Rob Kitchin (NUI Maynooth) Final words ____________________________________________ Dr. Duncan Fuller Division of Geography and Environmental Management Lipman Building University of Northumbria at Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne UK Tel (Direct): (0191) 2273753 Mobile: 07946 401359 Tel (Division Office): (0191) 2273951 Fax: (0191) 2274715 'Beyond the Academy? Critical geographies in Action' University of Northumbria at Newcastle 12-14 September 2001 Conference website - http://online.northumbria.ac.uk/faculties/ss/gem/conferences/beyond.html= ************************************************************************************ Distributed through Cyber-Society-Live [CSL]: CSL is a moderated discussion list made up of people who are interested in the interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society in all its manifestations.To join the list please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cyber-society-live.html *************************************************************************************