Apologies for cross postings
We welcome offers of papers or other contributions for the following
session:
“Emotions and politics 1: the importance of place”
at the Royal Geographical Society./Institute of British Geographers
Annual Conference,
Convenors:
Rachel Pain (
This session has two aims: to explore the significance of emotions to
the spaces of politics and political action, and to politicise emotional
geographies. Recognition that emotions operating at a range of scales have an
important role in how politics are played out has begun to influence every
social science discipline, and geographers are making distinct contributions.
Presenters will draw on discussions of emotions in geography and explore how
this affects our reading of the spaces, places and scaling of politics. The
session will consist of a selection of papers and viewpoints, which are wide ranging
in subject matter and approaches to emotionality but share this common focus.
Papers or other contributions might explore how fear, happiness, anger,
hope, sadness, anxiety, passion and/or other emotions connect to and shape political
relations, events, discourses, practices and actions.
Issues of interest may include, but are not restricted to:
·
the spaces of emotional politics
·
globalisation, localisation and
the scaling of emotions
·
geopolitics and emotional
discourse
·
emotions and identity politics
·
conducting emotional geographies
of politics and place
·
cartographies and other
representations of emotions, politics and place
Please email abstracts (max 200 words) to any of the convenors by 31st January 2007:
Jo Little ([log in to unmask])
Ruth Panelli ([log in to unmask])
Sara Kindon ([log in to unmask])
Dr Rachel Pain
Department of Geography
Social Well-Being and Spatial Justice research cluster
http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/Clusters/Default.aspx?alias=www.geography.dur.ac.uk/clusters/swsj
Editor: ACME: An International
E-Journal for Critical Geographies
http://www.acme-journal.org
Participatory Geographies Working
Group
http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/research/pygywebsite/