Call for Papers for the Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia 2004

Session Title : “Environment, Memory and Race”

This session has been sponsored by Cultural Geography Special Group and has been organised for research papers that connect issues of environment including nature, landscape, territory and nation and the histories of racialised groups. These could include research on the role of environmental values and histories as they are relevant to racialised groups; the value of a race-sensitive environmental history; the links between environmental history and race-histories; and work on post-colonial groups and environmental histories and values.

Themes could include:
-American Environmental History and Race
-Historical geography and Race
-Migration History and Environmental Values
-Landscape History and questions of Race
-Transnational Environmental Histories
-Race and environmental practices (including issues of appropriation and cultivation)
-History of Environmental Justice
-Environmental Philosophy and Race
-Environmental History of the Middle East
-Mobility, Race and Environmental Memory

Please forward all abstracts (apx. 150-200 words) to Dr. Divya Tolia-Kelly, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AP or e-mail- [log in to unmask] Abstracts by August 31st please

(All contributors must register online via the AAGs website. Registration info is on the aag website at http://www.aag.org (I hope).Deadline is end of August.)

Please circulate as appropriate.
Cheers,

Divya.