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*Call For Papers*

*AAG 2012 New York, 24th-28th February 2012*

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*Paper session:*

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*Remembering… what? Memory, identity and politics*



Organizers:


Audra El Vilaly (School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona)
and

Jacob Miller (School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona)



Everyday experiences are shot through with all sorts of stimuli, not all of
which are consciously registered, and not all of which are remembered. That
makes memory a profoundly political moment that we wish to explore in this
session. We invite papers from across and outside the discipline that help
address the question of what memory is (a process, a substance, a practice,
an action, an intervention?) and how it plays into the articulation of
identity, subjectivity, politics, and even development. Furthermore, how do
we conceptualize memory in research methodology and represent it in our
work? Papers could include – but are not limited to – investigation on how
memory relates to:



-   theories and practices of development

-   landscape, monuments, and public space

-   environmental use, management, and change

-   technology and the internet

-   perception, cognition, affect, and the non-representational

-   colonialism, modernity, and globalization

-   consumption, advertising, and marketing

-   state theory, governance, and political propaganda

-   art, aesthetics, design, and architecture



Please send us your brief abstract by *9/16/11: *[log in to unmask] ;
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