Apologies for cross-postings
August 18th to 22th 2014
Call for Paper for session 82 - Political geographies of multilingualism
Dealing with linguistic diversity is a particular challenge for political institutions that want to promote smooth communication between state and citizens and between political and economic actors on their territory.
Territorial arrangements based on territorial monolingualism as a way to enhance both social cohesion and institutional performance have often been adopted, in particular in Europe where the principle of “one state, one nation, one language, one territory”
has been widely endorsed and implemented both by states pursuing nation building policies and by nationalist movements advancing linguistic argument to establish their own state. Monolingualism has often been seen as a sine qua non for the public sphere deemed
necessary for a democracy to function. Traditionally this has led to heated conflicts about linguistic justice, linguistic rights, regimes and policies in areas where people were using several languages next to each other and relations between linguistic groups
were strained. In recent decades, many globalization processes, most notably transnational migration, have increasingly boost linguistic diversity (both in terms of the numbers of multilingual persons and the numbers of languages used in any specific place),
especially in cities and poses an increasingly pressing challenge to political institutions (state and non-state) to accommodate it. This session aims at advancing new political geographies of linguistic diversity, by examining the geographical aspects of
the ways it is represented and the ways it is practiced and performed or opposed. We welcome papers dealing with the conceptual methodological and theoretical aspects of political geographies of multilingualism, with cases studies including historical cases,
and with comparative studies, at all scale levels (local, regional, national, supranational) in and outside Europe.
Convenor:
Virginie Mamadouh, University of Amsterdam
The sessions (co-)sponsored by the IGU Commission on Political Geography are listed and described in the Urban Geography Commission's Website:
http://www.igu-cpg.unimib.it/?p=856 and
http://www.igu-cpg.unimib.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/IGUCPGCALLS.pdf
Themes 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)
General information:
The final list of sessions is available at the conference webpage, as a link named:2014 IGU conference sessions' outline
which is located at the following subpages:
http://www.igu2014.org/index.php?page=programme
http://www.igu2014.org/index.php?page=registration
http://www.igu2014.org/index.php?page=call_for_papers
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