Call For Papers

STORIED SPACES: NEW RESEARCH ON NARRATIVE GEOGRAPHIES

Organiser: Gareth Hoskins, University of Wales-Aberystwyth

Discussant: Nick Entrikin, University of California-Los Angeles,

An interest in narrative has done much to shed light on our understandings of geography. Studies linking narrative to nation building (Bhabha 1990, Anderson 1991), the making of place (Tuan 1991), identity (Benhabib 1992, Somers 1994), the region (Sayer 1988, Passi 2001, MacLeod and Jones 2001) the geographies of health (Kearns 1997), heritage (Crang 1994, DeLyser 2003), the rural (Fish 2004, Law and Singleton 2004) and the in between (Entrikin 1991, JP Jones III and Woodward 2004) give some indication of the breadth at which geographical debate has been pushed forward by narrative-led inquiries.

While the diversity of topics subjected to a narratological approach suggests the concept’s flexibility and robustness, there remains room for thinking about narrative and its iterative relationship with space in a far more sustained and focussed manner. STORIED SPACES invites reflection on this iterative relationship requesting papers that examine narrative’s epistemological, ontological, representational and performative dimensions.

Contributions are encouraged from all areas of the discipline but should ideally address story-space reciprocities. Discussion might include arguments, accounts, and explanations about …

Narrative’s productive capacities

How stories initiate new forms of engagement with place;

How place operates through narrative;

How place provokes story;

How practices of storytelling invoke and/or embed spatial configurations.

Narrative imaginations and geographical imaginations

Narrative and the negotiation of identity.

If interested in participating in this session please contact the convenor Gareth Hoskins [log in to unmask] with an abstract of no more than 250 words by September 16th

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