Call For Papers

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

 

Paper session:

 

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] ; [log in to unmask]