Dear all
For your information.
Bests
Kevin
>The Geography and Politics of Fear
>A One Day Workshop at UCL Students' Union, Bloomsbury, London
>
>July 3rd 2001, 9.30am - 5pm
>
>Additional details are at
>
>http://www.science.ulst.ac.uk/geog/fear
>Convenors: Pete Shirlow, Rachel Pain and the Conference of Socialist
>Economists (Capital & Class)
>
>Emphasis, within this workshop, will be placed upon the ways in which
>discourses of fear are manufactured, through state politics, civil society
>and cultural belonging, with the effect of reflecting and reinforcing the
>exercise of power. Key themes include:
>
>* the definition and utilisation of "fear" within hegemonic discourses;
>* the ways in which "fear" is constructed around and constructs certain
>social identities, reflected in experiences of public spaces, private
>spaces, national and local territories and environments;
>* representations of fear in relation to racism, homophobia, sexism,
>ethno-sectarianism and contemporary patterns of social exclusion.
>
>The workshop is intended to reflect interesting recent work, which has a
>more strongly political orientation and implication. It will include
>critiques informed by radical perspectives such as socialist, feminist,
>anti-racist and queer theory.
>
>Additional details are at
>
>http://www.science.ulst.ac.uk/geog/fear
>
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Kevin G. Ward
School of Geography
University of Manchester
Manchester, M13 9PL
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but two] swing like the Supremes' (Michael Wolff quoted in Penny
Sparke, Furniture, London, 1986, p86).
