IGU 2014 Krakow conference: 18-22 August 2014

IGU Commission on Political Geography (IGU-CPG)

 

Special session: Camps. Geographies of the Sovereign Exception (co-organized with the journal Political Geography)

 

Featuring

 

The Political Geography lecture at IGU 2014:

 

Camps.

Claudio Minca

 

and interventions of Franco Farinelli and Vladimir Kolossov

 

 

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NB: Please note that the organizers of the IGU 2014 Regional Conference in Krakow have pushed the abstract deadline back to 27th January.

 

The paper sessions (co-)sponsored by the IGU Commission on Political Geography are:

 

· Contemporary conflicts and new/old form of belligerence (Elena dell’Agnese)

· Globalisation, sharing.gift economies and contested everyday futures (Anthony Ince)

· Political geographies of multilingualism (Virginie Mamadouh)

· European, integration, conflict resolutions and persisting divides (Virginie Mamadouh, Anna Cassaglia, Jussi Laine)

· Here, there, everywhere: social movements spatializing dissent (Valeria Pecorelli)

· Concept of power and space in ‘post political approaches (Paul Reuber)

· The political geographies of ‘post-growth’ discourses (Paul Reuber)

· The politics of commodification of nature (Paul Reuber)

· Climate change, environmental discourse and gender (Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg and Stefano Malatesta, (Joint session with the IGU commission on Gender and Geography)

· Gender, human rights and citizenship (Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg and Camilla Spadavecchia) (Joint session with the IGU commission on Gender and Geography)

· Tourism and political borders (Marek Wieckowski, Dallen J. Timothy, Elena dell’Agnese) (Joint session with the IGU commission on the Geography of Tourism, Leisure and Global Change)

· Dark tourism, heritage and war (Carolin Funck, Tim Coles, Elena dell’Agnese) (Joint session with the IGU commission on the Geography of Tourism, Leisure and Global Change)

· What (political ) geography ought to be? Theoretical approaches to and historical perspectives on geography and geopolitics as instruments of peace (Elena dell’Agnese and Toshiyuki Shimazu) (Joint session with the IGU commission on the History of Geography)

· Beyond global cities’ system: cities as geopolitical actors in the complex world (Anna Casaglia and Celine Rozenblat) (Joint session with the IGU commission on Urban Challenges in a Complex World)

 

Check the website for the Commission for more information about the special session at http://www.igu-cpg.unimib.it/?p=974

and about each paper session:

http://www.igu-cpg.unimib.it/?p=856 and http://www.igu-cpg.unimib.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/IGUCPGCALLS.pdf

 

General information about IGIU 2014 Krakow:

The final list of sessions is available at the conference webpage:  http://www.igu2014.org/index.php?page=programme

 

The conference participants may submit abstracts for particular sessions only via the on-line system. In order to have access to that system, it is necessary to register as a participant in the registration system.

 

More details about registration at:

http://www.igu2014.org/index.php?page=registration

More details about abstract submission:

http://www.igu2014.org/index.php?page=call_for_papers

 

 

Looking forward to meeting you in Krakow,

virginie mamadouh

 

Dr. V.D. Mamadouh

AISSR-GoG, Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies

University of Amsterdam

Plantage Muidergracht 14

1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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