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Conference of Irish Geographers, May 3rd - 5th 2002 At the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster, Magee Campus. Session on: Historical Geographies of Atlantic Resistances and Irish Subaltern Politics Recent work has emphasised the importance of Irish subaltern movements and their connections with Atlantic routes and networks of radical ideas, practices and experiences (Linebaugh and Rediker, 2000, Rodgers, 1996). This session aims to bring together researchers working on the historical geographies of Irish subaltern politics. It particularly seeks contributions on the relations of Irish resistance politics to Atlantic networks and routes of resistance. The session seeks contributions relating to multiple forms of subaltern resistances. These would include the politics of labour combinations and unions, of agrarian politics and secret societies, of nationalisms, contestations of gender relations and the political activity of marginal groups like travellers or migrant labourers. Contributions are also sought on how subaltern struggles contested dominant spatialities and ways of ordering environments and materials. The session seeks contributions on the exclusions constituted by subaltern struggles, such as the masculinities performed through particular forms of labour politics, as well as on the forms of co-operation and contestation of unequal power relations. Please send abstracts to Dave Featherstone, Department of Geography, Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA by 15th March, 2002. [log in to unmask] 01908 654507/ 266022