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final call, apologies for cross-postings. -- CALL FOR PAPERS AAG Annual Meeting, Denver 5-9 April 2005 GOVERNING CITIZENS, TERRITORY, WAR Deborah Cowen, Department of Geography, University of Toronto [log in to unmask] Emily Gilbert, Program in Canadian Studies and Department of Geography, University of Toronto [log in to unmask] Investigations of new spaces and scales of citizenship associated with the emergence of neoliberal governmentalities and political economies have animated citizenship studies in recent years. Practices of citizenship that are not firmly anchored or monogamously tied to the territorial nation state including urban, transnational, cosmopolitan and supranational forms of identification, belonging, and regulation are high on the agenda for political-geographic investigation. How do national militarism, security and war encourage an overlap and entanglement of these sometimes competing, and sometimes complementary scales of citizenship? How does the militarization of national borders, and more broadly, the strengthening of material and symbolic dimensions of national boundaries, intersect with 'post-national' modes of political belonging? These sessions will bring together papers that explore these kinds of questions and which deal with issues relating to the governing of citizens, territory and war. We invite papers that pursue both substantive and theoretical lines of inquiry. Topics include but are not limited to: - National security and citizenship - Biometrics, borders, and citizenship - Citizenship and militarism - Citizenship and empire - Citizenship and racialization - Neoliberalism nationalism and citizenship - Multi-scalar citizenship - War, protest, citizenship - Citizenship, class and war Expressions of interest should be submitted as soon as possible to either of the organizers. Final abstracts of no more than 250 words will be required by the session organizers along with registration numbers by October 7th 2004 and should be sent to both organizers.