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Will there be any actual animals contributing? because otherwise surely you're just reinforcing the process of keeping them in 'the shadows of marginality'... My Jack Russell Jerry just finished Said's 'Orientalism' and it's helped him to develop a very keen apercu on quadruped excrement as 'matter out of place' - I'm sure he'd be happy to send in an abstract if I give him a biscuit. Dr Jon Cloke Lecturer/Research Associate Geography Department Loughborough University Loughborough LE11 3TU Office: 01509 228193 Mob: 07984 813681 ________________________________________ From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dr Daniel Allen [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 28 December 2011 17:33 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: CFP. "Wanted, Dead or Alive: Critical Geographies of Human-Animal Encounters" Call for papers: "Wanted, Dead or Alive: Critical Geographies of Human-Animal Encounters" RGS-IBG Conference, Edinburgh, 3rd-5th July 2012 Organisers: Daniel Allen (Independent Scholar), Robert Hearn (Nottingham), Richard White (Sheffield Hallam). Animal Geography Research Network The emergence of a ‘more-than-human geographies’ approach to the natural world has seen the dissolution of nature-culture binaries, challenged understandings of “the animal”, and heightened the appreciation of hybridity and subjectivities. Despite these important developments, it has been suggested that ‘something is lost’ with this analysis; and the danger of denying difference altogether remains (Castree, 2003). As Philo (2005: 829) reflects: ‘might it not be that the animals – in detail, up close, face-to-face, as it were – still remain somewhat shadowy presences? They are animating the stories being told, but in their individuality – as different species, even as individuals – they stay in the margins.’ This ambitious session strives to reconsider the original aims of the new animal geographies project, documenting all manner of encounters between humans and animals, showing the spatiality of human-animal orderings, and revealing how such relationships shaped ideas, practices and identities throughout history (Philo and Wilbert, 2001). The session welcomes papers engaging with human-animal encounters in secure places, landscapes of defence, spaces of security and insecurity. Possible topics could include: animals in warfare, detection species at home and in the workplace, animals as both forms of security for and devourers of property, encounters with dangerous species (captivity, taming, killing), securing indigenous and endangered species populations, animal protection through welfare and rights. The session will showcase the rich variety of human-animal research in social, cultural and historical geography. By bringing together ‘retold stories’ (H. Lorimer, 2005) and ‘responsible anthropologies’ (Johnston, 2008) it is hoped this session will keep non-human animals out of the shadows of marginality, and also help secure ongoing contributions from the field of animal geography. Instructions for Authors: Please send abstracts (250 words max) to Daniel Allen ([log in to unmask]), Robert Alexander Hearn ([log in to unmask]), or Richard J White ([log in to unmask]) by Friday 27th January 2012.