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A CPF for planned sessions on Situated Knowledge Production at the IAG Conference, 3-6 July 2011 (University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia). The session is sponsored by the Urban Geography Study Group of IAG. Situated knowledge production At least since Haraway (1991), the idea of situated knowledge—knowledge as inevitably contextual and embodied, shaped through specific technological and social networks, always partial, constructed and never finished—has had currency in geography. Yet, notwithstanding recent treatments of situated knowledge practices (LeHeron and Lewis 2010, Barnes and Sheppard 2009, Robinson 2006), close conceptual, theoretical and empirical scrutiny of the idea and its practice has lagged. This session aims to assemble researchers working across a diversity of contexts to reflect on emergent understandings of situated knowledge, its practice, potential and accountabilities. Contributions may cover a diverse range of theoretical perspectives—such as performativity, poststructural political economy, more-than-human geographies, indigenous epistemologies—and may arise from ‘pure’, collaborative and community-engaged research contexts. Questions that contributors may consider include, but are not limited to: ● what a commitment to situated knowledge involves ● methodological and thinking practices for situated knowledge production ● sites for situated knowledge production ● accountabilities involved in performing situated knowledge ● the circulation of situated knowledges ● the political possibilities of situated knowledges Eugene McCann (SFU, Vancouver) will act as a discussant on the papers contributed to the session. Session Organisers: Richard Le Heron ([log in to unmask]) Kathy Mee ([log in to unmask]) Pauline McGuirk ([log in to unmask]) Karen Fisher ([log in to unmask]) Please a) submit your abstract directly, via email, to all four session organiser/s, by March 1. You will ALSO need to submit to the conference's online abstract submission site. I'll circulate details on how to do that as soon at they are finalised. Thanks Pauline