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Topics of the day:
1. Geography department moves: call for info (4)
2. HGRG sposnsored session
3. CfP Food Matters RGS-IBG Exeter Sep 2015
4. CfP - RGS/IBG: Individual and collective imaginaries of energy: storying
energy in the past, present and future
5. CFP, RGS-IBG 2015, Geographies of Politics and Anti-Politics
6. Call for TGRG session proposals: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference
2015
7. RGS-IBG call for papers on Mixed Methods, Qualitative and Feminist GIS
8. CFP RGS-IBG 2015: Suspending the Anthropocene
9. Article request (2)
10. CFP RGS-IBG 2015: Future Fossils? Specimens from the 5th millennium
‘Return to Earth’ expedition
11. Call for papers: conference "Energy Landscapes"
12. IPA2015 - Call for Interest - Doing IPA Differently, the IPA Festival
Fringe
13. Article request.
14. Article request: Metzger, J.T. (1996)
15. Water in the Anthropocene: creative approaches to understanding and
re-thinking human-water relationships
16. Studentship opportunity - University of Manchester
17. CfP RGS-IBG 2015: Transitioning to low-carbon mobilities
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 07:43:04 +0000
From: Emma Saunders <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Geography department moves: call for info
Good morning,
Having just registered for a postgraduate course in the geography
department of Edinburgh University, I was surprised to find that a
large scale move has been planned to merge in one building the various
sub-disciplines of the (recently created) School of Geosciences such
as geography, geology, ecology...
In 2004, the geography department joined this administrative unit
because of the shared grant applications with the physical sciences
and the fact that geography sat uneasily in all the various larger
units. Staff in its majority accepted this merger with the
understanding that this administrative change would bear no
consequences on the organisation and running of the discipline. The
geography department indeed remained in a specific central building,
where both human and physical geographers worked whilst the other
disciplines of the School of Geosciences were based in an campus far
from city centre.
The School of Geosciences now holds a vision of a 'single-site'
building to be located in the Science campus far from city centre.
Many lecturers and students in the geography department have expressed
concerns that such a location would both marginalise 'radical'
geographies and hinder collaboration across the social sciences. Many
have also questioned the assumptions underlying the move and lack of
evidence to support such a change.
I am interested in hearing positive and negative stories, experiences
and consequences for geography departments, staff and students of
similar mergers and moves. If you have any to share, please send them
to this email address. This stems from a desire to research the
consequences of such moves and mergers and assess how wide spread a
phenomenon this is.
In the mean time, i wish you a happy, challenging and surprising new year,
Best,
emma saunders
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The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 08:36:32 +0000
From: Georgina Endfield <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: HGRG sposnsored session
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 09:21:31 +0000
From: Adams Mags <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CfP Food Matters RGS-IBG Exeter Sep 2015
The usual apologies for cross-posting...
Call for Papers: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2015, Exeter, 2-4 September 2015
Session title
Food Matters: geographical perspectives on food in the anthropocene
Mags Adams (University of Salford), Richard Armitage (University of Salford), Mike Hardman (University of Salford)
Food matters have become increasingly important in academic, policy and political agendas in recent years, acknowledging the coproduction of food and society: the key role food plays in sustaining society alongside its potential to be shaped by society. From concerns about where food comes from, how it is produced, what it contains and how it is marketed to concerns with how it is consumed, who can afford it, why it is wasted and where possible sites of intervention might lie, researchers have increasingly been exploring the role of food in relation to (in)security, justice, production and consumption. The political and economic tensions surrounding different modes of engagement with food, and contestations about the sites and forms of interventions (whether government policy, third sector, charitable) are tied up with more radical geo-political concerns about human society and planetary governance. The aim of this session is to encourage critical debate about the relationship between food and society and to reconfigure and advance understandings of food in the context of the Anthropocene. Such reconfiguration and advancing is important in the context of, amongst other things: the call for an increased role for urban food production, the seeming disconnect between food production and consumption, the increasing incidence of food poverty in the context of abundance, the paradox of a connection between poverty and obesity, the intensification of agriculture, the levels of food surplus and food waste, the relationship between food miles and local food production, and the UK’s targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (linked both to transportation and waste).
Many researchers are working in the area of geographies of food but there has been little coordination of their efforts. There have been a notable, but limited, number of special issues and conferences on food themes to which geographers have contributed, but to date there has been no coordination of geographers in the UK with a mutual interest in the geographies of food and agriculture. With the ever-increasing interest in this area, there is therefore an urgent need for such coordination; this session will act as a mechanism for bringing together actors working in the geographies of food field.
In this session we are interested in developing conversations exploring the methodological, empirical, theoretical and ethical implications of geographies of food and agriculture. We therefore invite proposals for papers that present research falling within this broad theme. Theoretical and empirical contributions are welcomed that address:
* The role of urban agriculture in addressing food (in)security
* The ways in which social practices of food acquisition are shaped and defined
* Philanthropy and food poverty
* The coproduction of food waste and food poverty
* The relationship between food, water and energy
* Local and global food networks
* Food justice in the anthropocene
* Interdisciplinary methodologies for researching geographies of food
Format: We propose a paper session consisting of 3 x 15 minute papers plus 4 ‘PechaKucha’ PhD/early career papers (PechaKucha is of Japanese origin and involves giving 20 quick-fire slides of 20 secs each, totalling 6.7mins each). This provides space for summaries of projects at various stages to be presented, allowing 7 presentations in the allocated time-slot. It also allows time at the end for 25 minutes of discussion.
The session organisers are aware of the need for better coordination of geographers working on food and agricultural issues and hope to develop enough interest through the session to form a Food Matters Research Group (or working group in the first instance). We also hope successful contributors to the session will be interested to write up their papers for a special issue on the geographies of food. We are also aware of other food related cfp's this year and hope to liaise so that they don't overlap.
Proposals for papers, with a title, a short abstract of 250 words and your full contact details, should be sent to one the co-organisers by 4pm on Friday 30th January 2015:
Mags Adams ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>), Richard Armitage ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Mike Hardman ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>).
Please also indicate your interest in contributing to the development of a new research group and/or a special issue.
Dr Mags Adams
Lecturer in Geography | Environment & Life Sciences
Room 307, Peel Building, University of Salford, Salford, UK M5 4WT
t: +44 (0) 161 295 4067
[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> | www.salford.ac.uk<http://www.salford.ac.uk/>
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 09:23:50 +0000
From: Mel Rohse <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CfP - RGS/IBG: Individual and collective imaginaries of energy: storying energy in the past, present and future
*Call for papers: Individual and collective imaginaries of energy: storying
energy in the past, present and future*
*Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference
2015. University of Exeter, 1st**-4th* *September 2015*
Session convenors:
Mel Rohse (University of Birmingham, [log in to unmask])
Rosie Day (University of Birmingham, [log in to unmask])
Joe Smith (Open University, [log in to unmask])
Sponsored by the Energy Geographies Working Group
*Abstract deadline: 30th January 2015*
To date, a high proportion of social research on energy uses has focused on
the individual as an energy consumer, with behaviour to be changed through
economic enticement and technological intervention. This vision is
articulated as a narrative that has come to dominate energy research and
policy, effectively overlooking “energy use as a system of social
processes” (Moezzi and Janda, 2013: 214), which is embedded in specific
localities and temporalities. This runs several risks, such as hindering
our understanding of energy practices, disengaging the public from energy
conversations and limiting the emergence of new narratives of socio-energy
relations. However, opportunity may be offered by narrative research which
endeavours to create a space where culturally dominant stories meet counter
stories, a contested site where new stories can be imagined (Bamberg and
Andrews, 2004). For this session, we welcome papers that use stories
(defined broadly) as an imaginative approach to engage with how people
live, have lived and might live with energy. Contributions may address, for
example
- Collective imaginaries of energy
- Community visioning of future socio-energy relations
- Shared or contested histories of energy production and
consumption
- Stories of energy and social change
- Narratives of energy and place / place-making
- Complexities and contradictions within stories of energy
Please send abstracts of *no more than 200 words by 30th January* to Mel
Rohse ([log in to unmask]).
Dr Mel Rohse
Research Fellow
Stories of Change: Exploring energy and community in the past, present and
future
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
Tel: +44 (0) 121 41 45542
Email: [log in to unmask]
**Please note that I work three days a week at UoB which might delay a
response.**
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 09:26:46 +0000
From: "Clarke N." <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP, RGS-IBG 2015, Geographies of Politics and Anti-Politics
Call for papers
Conference: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Exeter, 1-4 Sept 2015
Session: Geographies of Politics and Anti-Politics
Convenors: Nick Clarke, University of Southampton, [log in to unmask]; Jonathan Moss, University of Southampton, [log in to unmask]
Sponsor: The Political Geography Research Group (PolGRG)
These are interesting times for Politics with a capital P. In the UK, voter turnout is in decline, with a notable exception being the Scottish independence referendum. Membership of political parties is in decline, with notable exceptions being the SNP, UKIP, and the Green Party. Trust in politicians is in decline, almost without exception. Topics of public debate include whether Britain should remain in Europe, whether Britain can remain in Europe and control policy areas like immigration, the rise of UKIP, whether Scotland should remain in the UK, the rise of the SNP, further devolution to Scotland, devolution to England's northern cities, the relative merits of coalitions and other forms of government, and whether people should bother voting at all. At least some of these developments and issues are mirrored beyond the UK - especially in other western European countries and the USA.
This session invites papers on the spatial components of these developments in formal Politics. Does political disengagement, alienation, and support for third parties or anti-political parties like UKIP vary across the UK? How does the experience of the UK compare to the experiences of other countries? What are the roles of globalisation, Europeanisation, and the nationalisation of political campaigning in these developments? What explains talk at the moment of 'Westminster Politics' and 'out-of-touch metropolitan elites'?
Topics we hope the session might cover include:
* Definitions of Politics and anti-Politics.
* The relationship between formal Politics and informal politics (i.e. new social movements, transnational political networks, internet activism etc.).
* Temporal and spatial patterns of citizen-engagement with formal Politics.
* The roles of globalisation and Europeanisation in explaining these patterns.
* The roles of privatisation and depoliticisation in explaining these patterns.
* The roles of media coverage and the nationalisation of political campaigning in explaining these patterns.
* Independence and devolution in the UK.
* The changing party system.
* Discourses of Westminster, London, and the rest.
We anticipate that contributors will have 15 minutes to present a paper plus at least five minutes per paper for discussion. If you would like to contribute, please send a title, abstract of less than 250 words, and author details to both convenors by 4 Feb 2015.
Dr Nick Clarke
Associate Professor of Human Geography
Geography and Environment
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton SO17 1BJ
Tel. 02380 594618
Mob. 07708 099056
Web: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/geography/about/staff/nc1.page
Web: http://antipolitics.soton.ac.uk
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 10:29:20 +0000
From: Angela Curl <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Call for TGRG session proposals: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2015
With apologies for cross-posting
We still have some space for sessions sponsored by the Transport Geography Research Group at this year's RGS-IBG Annual International Conference.
If you would like to have your session sponsored by TGRG, please submit your session proposal to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by Friday 16th January. We will confirm sponsorship the same week and you will then have until Friday 20th February to send out your Call for Papers, choose your presenters and submit your full session proposal to RGS.
The conference will take place at the University of Exeter from the 2nd-4th September and will be chaired by Professor Sarah Whatmore (University of Oxford). The conference theme is Geographies of the Anthropocene
Please include the following in your session proposal:
* A title
* Names, affiliations and email addresses of the session convenors (we advise TWO)
* A session abstract (about 200-300 words), and up to five keywords.
(you do not have to use the AC2014 session proposal form at this stage)
Guidance - sessions are scheduled into timeslots of 1 hour 40 minutes long. A session may not normally occupy more than two of these timeslots in the conference programme. TGRG has a 'ration' of timeslots, which we will bear in mind when selected which proposals to sponsor. Please indicate how many high quality papers you think you will attract - four or five (max) 'traditional' papers will fit into a timeslot, or you can consider holding a debate, or a workshop, or adopt a different format such as a pecha kucha.
We welcome joint proposals with other groups (who may have a different timeline - please state what that is). For session proposals which attract many high quality submissions, we will consider allowing two timeslots - there are usually 2 or 3 sessions which have two timeslots each.
In addition to promotion of sessions and support in submitting session proposals, one of the benefits of a TGRG sponsored session is that we are given an allocation of guest passes for non geographers and/or non UK conference participants. Session organisers may suggest names of established speakers for whom the TGRG can potentially offer a free conference pass, assuming the criteria for guest passes are met and subject to our allocation of guest passes.
The following links may be useful in proposing your session.
www.rgs.org/AC2015<http://www.rgs.org/AC2015>
www.rgs.org/ACSessionFormats<http://www.rgs.org/ACSessionFormats>
www.rgs.org/AC2015OrganiseSession<http://www.rgs.org/AC2015OrganiseSession>
Kind Regards
Angela Curl (TGRG Secretary)
Dr. Angela Curl<http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/angelacurl/>
Research Associate (GoWell<http://www.gowellonline.com/>)
Urban Studies
University of Glasgow
25 Bute Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RS
Tel: 0141 330 2093
[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]%3cmailto:[log in to unmask]>>
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 11:03:28 +0000
From: "Brockett, Beth" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RGS-IBG call for papers on Mixed Methods, Qualitative and Feminist GIS
A call for papers for a proposed session at the 2015 Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference to be held on 1-4 September at the University of Exeter (http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/Annual+international+conference.htm)
Mixed Methods, Qualitative and Feminist Geographical Information Systems/Science (GIS)
In 2002 Mei-Po Kwan proposed a reimagining of GIS as a method in feminist geography*. Since then, feminist and other critical geographers have used this reimagining to interrogate and move past GIS as a method solely connected with positivist scientific practices and visualization technologies. Qualitative and mixed methods GIS has been used alongside more familiar qualitative and quantitative research methods as a way of bringing together different ways of knowing. Researchers have used its interdisciplinary approach to tackle subjects as diverse as: creating alternative versions of neighbourhoods and community spaces; analysis of informal economies; mapping women’s worlds; and, incorporating local knowledge into natural resource management.
We invite contributions which explore the use of this flexible methodology within any topic, as well as critical empirical and theoretical interventions on the subject. We encourage papers which cover the example themes below, but also welcome other interpretations.
Some example topics: post- and non-representational mapping; incorporating non-cartographic information into GIS databases; creating new ways to think spatially; emotional and imaginative mapping; grassroots GIS practice; how GIS, spatial data and maps produce and negotiate politics and power relations; affective GIS; collisions of different and potentially contradictory ways of knowing, as well as the “feminist notion that carefully and thoughtfully incorporating multiple ways of knowing is some of the most important political work we can do”**.
*Kwan, 2002, Feminist Visualization: Re-envisioning GIS as a Method in Feminist Geographic Research, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 92 (4); 645-661.
**Cope and Elwood, 2009, ‘Conclusion: For Qualitative GIS’ in Qualitative GIS: A mixed methods approach, eds. Cope and Elwood; 171-177.
Joint-sponsored session - Geographical Information Science Research Group (GIScRG) and Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group (GFGRG)
Convenors: Beth Brockett (Lancaster University), Chris Perkins (University of Manchester), Janet Speake (Liverpool Hope University), Rob Berry (Countryside and Community Research Institute)
The session convenors are seeking submissions of an abstract of no more than 250 words, based on a 15 minute presentation + 5 minute Q&A format (see RGS2015 information <http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/Annual+international+conference.htm>). The convenors are keen to maximise the potential for discussion between speakers and audience and the opportunity for inter-discipline discussion, therefore respondents to this call are welcome to suggest alternative presentation options (which adhere to the time limit).
Timeline:
* Deadline for submission of abstracts: 2nd February 2015
* Responses from session convenors by: 13th February 2015 (those selected are expected to cover all of their costs)
* The session convenors will communicate the RGS response as soon as informed by the organisers after the RGS 20th February deadline
Abstracts and queries should be sent to:
* Beth Brockett - [log in to unmask]
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 10:55:29 +0000
From: Thomas Jellis <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP RGS-IBG 2015: Suspending the Anthropocene
*CFP RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Exeter 2-4 September 2015*
*Suspending the Anthropocene*
Organisers: Maan Barua (University of Oxford), Joe Gerlach (University of
Oxford), Thomas Jellis (University of Oxford)
Sponsor: History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group
Its probable sedimentation as a geological marker belies the rapid
inundation of contemporary social and political theory by the so-called
Anthropocene. In Geography, this has been particularly clear, with
conceptual work on nature and environmentalism (Lorimer, 2012; Lorimer and
Driessen, 2014), climate change (Dalby, 2013; Healy, 2014), the geo (Clark,
2012; Yusoff, 2014), as well as reviews (Castree, 2014a; 2014b; 2014c) and
reflections on the Anthropocene (Johnson and Morehouse, 2014).
With the Holocene unceremoniously cannibalised in the blink of an epoch,
the rush to harness and apply all things Anthropocenean is untamed. If the
Anthropocene points to the end of ‘epochality’ as such (Viveiros de Castro,
2013), then this session looks to assemble and develop critiques -
conceptually and philosophically eclectic - of the Anthropocene that
harness ideas of ‘suspension’ (in all senses of the term), in order to
problematize a prevalent narrative of abrupt change across a range of
registers in contemporary geographical thought. This, then, might include
examining the ‘bracketing’ of epochs, the suspending of the human, or the
suspense of the future. As such, the session also seeks to explore and
interrogate the politics of living in a ‘passive present’ engendered by the
onset of the Anthropocene.
We welcome papers attending, but not limited, to:
- Post-humanist critiques
- Post-structuralist critiques
- Post-colonial critiques
- Non-western cosmologies
- Epoch/epoché
- Suspension
- Futurity and anticipation
- The Holocene
- Abrupt change, with regards to theories of the event or novelty
- Geophysical knowledge/politics
- Provincialising the Anthropocene
Please send abstracts (c. 200 words) to Thomas Jellis (
[log in to unmask]) by Monday *16 February* 2015.
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 11:08:02 +0000
From: Jack McCarthy <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Article request
Hi all,
Does anyone have access to the following?
Hajer, M. A. (2006). Doing discourse analysis: coalitions, practices,
meaning.*Words matter in policy and Planning-Discourse Theory and Method in
the Social Sciences*, *344*, 65-74.
Best,
Jack
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 11:39:14 +0000
From: Jack McCarthy <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Article request
Article received,
many thanks.
Jack
On 7 January 2015 at 11:08, Jack McCarthy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone have access to the following?
>
> Hajer, M. A. (2006). Doing discourse analysis: coalitions, practices,
> meaning.*Words matter in policy and Planning-Discourse Theory and Method
> in the Social Sciences*, *344*, 65-74.
>
> Best,
>
> Jack
>
>
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 11:51:37 +0000
From: Beth Greenhough <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP RGS-IBG 2015: Future Fossils? Specimens from the 5th millennium ‘Return to Earth’ expedition
CFP: Future Fossils? Specimens from the 5th millennium ‘Return to Earth’ expedition, RGS-IBG Annual Conference, University of Exeter, 2nd-4th September 2015
(Sponsored by the History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group)
Session Convenors: Dr Beth Greenhough ([log in to unmask]) & Dr Jamie Lorimer ([log in to unmask]), University of Oxford, Dr Kathryn Yusoff ([log in to unmask]), Queen Mary University of London
Abstract: We invite participants to speculate on the traces or signals (geological or otherwise) that will mark out the Anthropocene for future geo-graphers and geo-logists. An invitation is extended to an imaginary future event: a 5000AD symposium to report the results of an Earth expedition. Participants will bring with them examples of ‘future fossils’; significant remnants of our contemporary age that illustrate how current human and non-human relations imprint their legacies into not only geological, but all kinds of biological, social, atmospheric and virtual strata.
One of the key challenges posed by the Anthropocene concept is that it forces us to engage with both an entangled present and an uncertain future. While seemingly anthropocentric (in its claim that the influence of humanity is all pervasive), the idea of an Anthropocene highlights how the non-human world is firmly embedded within and through us. How will future generations (looking back) discern the divides between human and other species and their relations to broader geomorphological, biological, socio-economic and cultural processes? The Anthropocene provides a provocation to think life differently and we seek to make prominent the geo-politics of this epochal event, whose present and future telling offers opportunities for alternative ways of writing the Earth.
We are keen to encourage the submissions from across the discipline, (from glaciology to affective technologies) demonstrating how geographers might use the Anthropocene to interrogate how their research fields could endure and what we might learn from that tenacity. In imagining the format of this future symposium we encourage (but will not restrict ourselves to) submissions from solitary explorers or delegations examining:
- middens, landfills and other sites of waste disposal
- mines, tunnels, quarries and other sites of earth-working
- digital cloud-storage repositories
- the anatomical, genetic, and biochemical composition of bodies found in what were once known as ‘graveyards’
- forms of settlement and architecture
- pollen, sediment and skeletal analysis from what was once known as ‘the countryside’
- the ocean depths and littoral flotsam and jetsam
Notes on format: Please note, the intention is to run 2 sessions with up to 14 short (10 minute) presentations followed by a panel discussion, this means papers will be shorter than the usual 20 minute slots. We may also be asking participants to submit an image and a short summary of their specimen in advance as part of an exhibition of future fossils.
If you would like to submit a paper/specimen please send a short abstract (200 words) to the session organisers by FRIDAY 6th FEBRUARY 2015. The organisers will respond by the 13th February to confirm which papers/specimens have been selected.
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 12:48:20 +0000
From: Susan Buckingham <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Geography department moves: call for info
Dear Emma and other Geographers,
Sounds like an interesting project. The following article human geographers have just had published in area might be of interest:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/area.12126/pdf
Geographers out of place: institutions, (inter)disciplinarity and identity 2014
Emma Wainwright, John Barker, Nicola Ansell, Susan Buckingham, Peter Hemming and Fiona Smith
Area, 2014, 46.4, 410-417, doi: 10.1111/area.12126
Abstract:
Ten years ago, the decision was taken to close Brunel University's Department of Geography and Earth
Sciences and its undergraduate programmes. Since this time, most of the human geographers have
remained at Brunel, but now work from beyond the boundaries of conventional academic Geography.
In this paper we argue that this situation, which is not uncommon for geographers in the UK and
elsewhere, has significant implications for both individuals and the discipline more broadly. Through our
everyday experiences of interdisciplinary working, this paper reflects on what it means to be a geographer
working outside of 'Geography'. The paper examines the implications of this at three different yet
related scales: the immediately personal scale in terms of identity and individual academic performance,
the institutional scale and its organisation that can lead to the presence/absence of academic subject
areas, and then finally the disciplinary scale with its attendant spaces of knowledge generation,
dissemination and protectionism. Our arguments are framed by neoliberal-led higher education changes
and conceptualisations of institutions, (inter)disciplinarity and identity, and point to broader significances
for the shape of the discipline.
Best wishes, Susan
Professor Susan Buckingham
Centre for Human Geography
Brunel University
Uxbridge, UB8 3PH
UK
Tel: 01895 266090 (direct)
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/shssc/people/social-work/susan-buckingham
EU COST Action Gender STE project: www.genderste.eu
-----Original Message-----
From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Emma Saunders
Sent: 07 January 2015 07:43
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Geography department moves: call for info
Good morning,
Having just registered for a postgraduate course in the geography department of Edinburgh University, I was surprised to find that a large scale move has been planned to merge in one building the various sub-disciplines of the (recently created) School of Geosciences such as geography, geology, ecology...
In 2004, the geography department joined this administrative unit because of the shared grant applications with the physical sciences and the fact that geography sat uneasily in all the various larger units. Staff in its majority accepted this merger with the understanding that this administrative change would bear no consequences on the organisation and running of the discipline. The geography department indeed remained in a specific central building, where both human and physical geographers worked whilst the other disciplines of the School of Geosciences were based in an campus far from city centre.
The School of Geosciences now holds a vision of a 'single-site'
building to be located in the Science campus far from city centre.
Many lecturers and students in the geography department have expressed concerns that such a location would both marginalise 'radical'
geographies and hinder collaboration across the social sciences. Many have also questioned the assumptions underlying the move and lack of evidence to support such a change.
I am interested in hearing positive and negative stories, experiences and consequences for geography departments, staff and students of similar mergers and moves. If you have any to share, please send them to this email address. This stems from a desire to research the consequences of such moves and mergers and assess how wide spread a phenomenon this is.
In the mean time, i wish you a happy, challenging and surprising new year,
Best,
emma saunders
--
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 13:33:06 +0000
From: Ealasaid Munro <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Geography department moves: call for info
Dear Emma (and listmembers),
Further to Susan's response - it might be of interest to investigate the removal of Geography and Sociology (as well as other subjects such as Community Education) from the UG curriculum at the University of Strathclyde, and the subsequent scattering of staff. Full disclosure: I was a UG student there from 2003-2007. Dr Wun Chan has written on this in the Scottish Geographical Journal:
Chan, Wun Fung (2011) Mourning geography : a punctum, Strathclyde and the death of a subject. Scottish Geographical Magazine, 127 (4). pp. 255-266.
The closure of that programme raised real questions about the direction that the University was taking in terms of the applicability and 'impact' of research, as well as - for me at least - the disciplinary effects of changing administrative structures within Universities.
A side note - as the programme wound down, I believe the staff of Geography and Sociology moved from their own (albeit interdisciplinary, and otherwise 'porous') space in the Graham Hills Building to an open space in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. I have long been interested in what this action sought to achieve, and what this kind of work-organisation (which appears increasingly common within HE institutions, despite attendant problems of productivity, ensuring privacy in meetings, and seeing students with a degree of confidentiality) *does* in the academic context. Was it influenced by current thinking around creativity, and innovation? (see Hodgson and Briand 2013, 'Controlling the uncontrollable: Agile teams and illusions of autonomy in creative work', Work Employment Society 27 (308), np). Did it work to erode disciplinary identity? Did it arise as a result of seeing social science as providing 'value added' to other subjects such as STEM and Business? Peripheral questions perhaps, but feeding into wider issues about the drive to strengthen links between academia and other sectors, authority, control, and the organisation of academic labour, methinks.
Very best wishes,
Ealasaid
Ealasaid Munro,
Research associate, the Supporting Creative Business project,
Room 408,
University of Glasgow Centre for Cultural Policy Research,
School of Culture and Creative Arts,
13 Professor Square
G12 8QQ
Tel: 01413 302447
Mob: 07791 545 225
-----Original Message-----
From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Emma Saunders
Sent: 07 January 2015 07:43
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Geography department moves: call for info
Good morning,
Having just registered for a postgraduate course in the geography department of Edinburgh University, I was surprised to find that a large scale move has been planned to merge in one building the various sub-disciplines of the (recently created) School of Geosciences such as geography, geology, ecology...
In 2004, the geography department joined this administrative unit because of the shared grant applications with the physical sciences and the fact that geography sat uneasily in all the various larger units. Staff in its majority accepted this merger with the understanding that this administrative change would bear no consequences on the organisation and running of the discipline. The geography department indeed remained in a specific central building, where both human and physical geographers worked whilst the other disciplines of the School of Geosciences were based in an campus far from city centre.
The School of Geosciences now holds a vision of a 'single-site'
building to be located in the Science campus far from city centre.
Many lecturers and students in the geography department have expressed concerns that such a location would both marginalise 'radical'
geographies and hinder collaboration across the social sciences. Many have also questioned the assumptions underlying the move and lack of evidence to support such a change.
I am interested in hearing positive and negative stories, experiences and consequences for geography departments, staff and students of similar mergers and moves. If you have any to share, please send them to this email address. This stems from a desire to research the consequences of such moves and mergers and assess how wide spread a phenomenon this is.
In the mean time, i wish you a happy, challenging and surprising new year,
Best,
emma saunders
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 14:53:26 +0100
From: Markus Leibenath <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Call for papers: conference "Energy Landscapes"
Dear colleague,
The Landscape Research Group
( http://www.landscaperesearch.org/) organises a European conference
on Energy Landscapes: Perception, Planning, Participation and Power. The
conference is hosted by the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and
Regional Development
(
http://www.ioer.de/1/research/wandel-und-management-von-landschaften/)
and will take place on September 16-18, 2015, in Dresden, Germany.
Key questions to be discussed are:
● Perception – How is the character, perception, assessment
and social construction of landscapes influenced by present and past
uses of energy?
● Planning – Which types of landscape-related planning and
governance regimes exist and how are they linked to landscape planning,
spatial planning and energy policy?
● Participation – In the face of energy transitions, to what
extent are landscape policies inclusive and participatory? Which actors
are involved and who is constituted as an actor in this regard?
● Power – Which power relations shape the interplay of
energies and landscapes? How can the workings of power be conceptualised
and critically reflected?
Please note: Contributions which take up issues of perception,
planning, participation or power in relation to other landscape
transformations, but without explicitly referring to energy, will also
be welcome.
Please follow these web links:
● Call for papers
( http://lrg2015.ioer.info/papers.html)
● Online submission tool
( http://lrg2015.ioer.info/submit_a_paper.html)
● Conference home
( http://lrg2015.ioer.info/index.html)
The deadline for submitting abstracts is February 28, 2015.
Please feel free to forward this email to any colleague or student who
might be interested.
Kind regards,
Markus Leibenath
_
Dr. Markus Leibenath
Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER)
Weberplatz 1
01217 Dresden, Germany
Tel.: +49 351 4679-285
Fax: +49 351 4679-212
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www.ioer.de/1/ioer-overview/staff/leibenath
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 14:56:22 +0000
From: Peter Matthews <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: IPA2015 - Call for Interest - Doing IPA Differently, the IPA Festival Fringe
Subscribers to this list may be planning on attending the International Interpretive Policy Analysis conference in Lille, July 2015: http://ipa2015.sciencesconf.org
We invite people who are considering attending to express an interest in being involved in our "IPA Festival Fringe":
http://ipa2015.sciencesconf.org/conference/ipa2015/pages/Doing_IPA_differently.pdf
In the spirit of a festival fringe, the only thing we will not accept is a 15-minute PowerPoint presentation (you can try and do one, but you might get drowned out by the interpretive dance). Other than that, the doors of the fringe will be open during the conference for all comers to engage in the panel. However, in the mean time we would ask for expressions of interest in engaging in the fringe in interesting and innovative ways. So, if you are interested please email the organisers with:
* Your name and affiliation;
* What you plan to do - in one or two sentences;
* And a description of why it is innovative - in one or two sentences;
* Any technology requests - AV equipment, internet access etc.
We particularly welcome input from non-academics, recognising that they might not be able to afford the money of time to attend, a pre-recorded video, audio or virtual engagement would be encouraged.
To make clear, this is a call for interest, not a call for papers. This is just to make sure we will have people in the room, engaging in an unconference fashion, creating the lively, exciting, discursive, argumentative space we aspire to. If you are interested in engaging in the session, please drop an email as detailed above to either of the organisers: David Stevenson [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> OR Peter Matthews [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Dr Peter Matthews | Lecturer in Social Policy - School of Applied Social Science | University of Stirling
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94% of our 2012 graduates were in work and/or further study within six months of graduation.
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 16:08:22 +0100
From: enzo falco <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Article request.
Hi everybody,
does anyone have access to the following paper?:Metzger, J.T. (1996) The Theory and Practice of Equity Planning: An Annotated Bibliography. Journal of Planning Literature. August 1996 vol. 11 no. 1, p. 112-126.
Thanks a lot
Enzo Falco
Post-Doc Research Fellow
GSSI Cities
Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila.
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 16:33:26 +0100
From: enzo falco <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Article request: Metzger, J.T. (1996)
Just got the article.
thanks!
enzo
From: [log in to unmask]
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Article request.
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 16:08:22 +0100
Hi everybody,
does anyone have access to the following paper?:Metzger, J.T. (1996) The Theory and Practice of Equity Planning: An Annotated Bibliography. Journal of Planning Literature. August 1996 vol. 11 no. 1, p. 112-126.
Thanks a lot
Enzo Falco
Post-Doc Research Fellow
GSSI Cities
Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila.
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 16:24:33 +0000
From: "Tim.Hall" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Geography department moves: call for info
At the risk of blatant self-promotion, could I mention a couple of things I have coming out in the near future that might be of interest to list members concerned with these issues.
The first is an article with a number of colleagues, looking at trends in the management of geography in British universities since the mid-1990s, particularly the tendency towards multidisciplinary management. The article offers an overview of trends rather than specific cases, but covers some of the issues raised in the post. It should be out shortly in Area. The reference is:
Hall T, Toms P, McGuinnes M, Parker C and Roberts, N. (forthcoming) 'Where's the geography department? The changing administrative place of geography in British universities', Area.
The second is a feature article in tomorrow's Times Higher Education about the trend towards multidisciplinary departments in universities generally. It is not specifically concerned with geography but does give some anecdotal material from my own experience on issues like teaching multidisciplinary classes, departmental culture and staff office accommodation issues.
Best wishes,
Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Emma Saunders
Sent: 07 January 2015 07:43
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Geography department moves: call for info
Good morning,
Having just registered for a postgraduate course in the geography department of Edinburgh University, I was surprised to find that a large scale move has been planned to merge in one building the various sub-disciplines of the (recently created) School of Geosciences such as geography, geology, ecology...
In 2004, the geography department joined this administrative unit because of the shared grant applications with the physical sciences and the fact that geography sat uneasily in all the various larger units. Staff in its majority accepted this merger with the understanding that this administrative change would bear no consequences on the organisation and running of the discipline. The geography department indeed remained in a specific central building, where both human and physical geographers worked whilst the other disciplines of the School of Geosciences were based in an campus far from city centre.
The School of Geosciences now holds a vision of a 'single-site'
building to be located in the Science campus far from city centre.
Many lecturers and students in the geography department have expressed concerns that such a location would both marginalise 'radical'
geographies and hinder collaboration across the social sciences. Many have also questioned the assumptions underlying the move and lack of evidence to support such a change.
I am interested in hearing positive and negative stories, experiences and consequences for geography departments, staff and students of similar mergers and moves. If you have any to share, please send them to this email address. This stems from a desire to research the consequences of such moves and mergers and assess how wide spread a phenomenon this is.
In the mean time, i wish you a happy, challenging and surprising new year,
Best,
emma saunders
--
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University of Winchester, a private charitable company limited by
guarantee in England and Wales number 5969256.
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 16:26:29 +0000
From: Katherine Jones <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Water in the Anthropocene: creative approaches to understanding and re-thinking human-water relationships
CFP RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Exeter 2-4 September 2015
Water in the Anthropocene: creative approaches to understanding and re-thinking human-water relationships
Organisers: Katherine Jones & Liz Roberts (University of the West of England)
Sponsor: Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG)
Water resource depletion, pollution, extreme weather events caused by anthropogenic climate change and water conflicts are some of the most urgent issues facing global society. These challenges often seem technical, even abstract, and couched in policy/scientific language which create distance between humans and water as a ‘natural’ resource and set of processes and flows. However, humans also have profoundly intimate relationships with water, for example at a bodily level, through sensuous and recreational encounters and through ‘watery senses of place’ (Anderson and Peters, 2014; Jones, 2014; McEwen et al., 2014). Water, in differing forms, ‘carries’ imaginative, discursive and symbolic roles in all human lives. Politically and culturally ‘water is everywhere’ (Linton, 2010). Our connections with water have profound implications for how we use, misuse, maintain, preserve and conserve water, and how through water we affect other lives – human and non-human. Recent research therefore looks to new and creative methods to approach multiple water-related challenges in the Anthropocene (Whatmore, 2013).
This session aims to bring together water scholars and practitioners to explore methods for creatively engaging with water issues and human-water relations. Presentations may include but are not limited to:
* creative ways of engaging with publics and agencies/organisations
* alternative knowledges and co-production
* creative approaches to presentation (of knowledge/research, e.g. river walks, exhibitions)
* uses of cultural resources (text, image, archive) and methods (stories, encounters, art-science collaboration, digital stories) to think about human-water relations
* materialities of water
* water ecologies
* inter/transdisciplinary approaches to water issues
Please send abstracts (c. 200 words) to Katherine Jones ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) or Liz Roberts ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by Monday 16 February 2015.
References
Anderson, J., Peters, K., 2014. Water worlds: human geographies of the ocean. Ashgate Publishing Limimted.
Jones, O., 2014. Is My Flesh Not Public? Thinking of bodies and “the public” through water. Presented at the New Perspectives on the Problem of the Public, Westminster.
Linton, J., 2010. Introduction, in: What Is Water?: The History of a Modern Abstraction. UBC Press.
McEwen, L., Jones, O., Robertson, I., 2014. “A glorious time?”Some reflections on flooding in the Somerset Levels. Geogr. J. 180, 326–337.
Whatmore, S.J., 2013. Earthly powers and affective environments: An ontological politics of flood risk. Theory Cult. Soc. 0263276413480949.
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 16:47:35 +0000
From: Stephen Hincks <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Studentship opportunity - University of Manchester
Apologies for cross-posting...
Feel free to circulate among your networks
The Centre for Urban Policy Studies (CUPS) of the School of Environment, Education & Development at the University of Manchester with the Institute of Public Policy Research North (IPPR North) are looking for applicants for the following ESRC funded studentship.
Title: Sustainable spatial rebalancing for Northern England: alternative models and future scenarios
This full-time, 3-year PhD studentship, starting in September 2015, is funded by the ESRC CASE studentship scheme. CASE studentships involve a PhD student working in partnership with an organisation to undertake a study designed to be relevant to the organisation. This creates an invaluable opportunity for students to undertake a PhD that bridges academic and professional concerns, having a direct impact in a professional context whilst also producing a PhD thesis.
The project
In England, the post-war period saw a rise in the use of a north-south divide narrative to explore regional inequalities as redistributive 'one-nation' policies were implemented in the 1950s and 1960s and subsequently dismantled in the next three decades. Since the turn of the millennium, the government has been attracted to the idea of pursuing a balanced competitive regional development strategy by improving the economic performance of lagging regions through a market-led competitiveness agenda while promoting continued growth in the economically successful centre. This coincides with the New Economic Geography thesis on spatial agglomeration and growth efficiency. The drivers of competitive growth have recently shifted from a regional perspective to the sub-regional scale of city-regions, though the spatial divide largely persisted as London and the South East region continued to dominate the economic growth of the country.
The struggle between growth efficiency and spatial equity forms the premise for this proposal to examine different models to achieve a 'sustainable' form of spatial rebalancing for the lagging Northern England. While transforming the interconnectivities among the northern cities is a vital component for spatial rebalancing, it has to be strategically related to the future spatial development and planning strategies of the North and the rest of the UK. The gravity and spatially diverse problems in many northern places remain an imperative for strategic thinking. This proposal aims to examine different spatial development models for Northern England to achieve spatial rebalancing and to assess sustainability and viability of these models via spatial simulation modelling and scenario building.
The student will be jointly supervised by Professor Cecilia Wong, Dr. Stephen Hincks and Mr. Nuno Pinto from the Centre for Urban Policy Studies of the University of Manchester, and by Mr. Luke Raikes from the Institute of Public Policy Research North.
The advert and specification can be found at http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AKH484/economic-and-social-research-council-esrc-case-studentship-sustainable-spatial-rebalancing-for-northern-england-alternative-models-and-future-scenarios/
Thanks
Stephen
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 22:39:45 +0000
From: Debbie Hopkins <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CfP RGS-IBG 2015: Transitioning to low-carbon mobilities
Call for Papers for a Transport Geography Research Group sponsored session at the 2015 Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference<http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/Annual+international+conference.htm>, 1-4 September, University of Exeter (UK)
Transitioning to low-carbon mobilities
Organisers: Debbie Hopkins, Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago (NZ) and James Higham, Department of Tourism, University of Otago (NZ)
Sponsor: Transport Geography Research Group
The 21st Century is ‘on the move’ (Sheller and Urry, 2006). In industrialised countries, people are becoming more mobile; travelling further to reach everyday activities such as employment and education, and seeking far reaching tourism destinations (Givoni and Banister, 2013). These practices of mobility demand faster, carbon-intensive transport modes including private vehicles and air travel. Despite technological efficiency gains, transport related greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to grow. The Fifth Assessment Report from the IPCC highlighted the need for ‘aggressive and sustained’ mitigation policies in order to achieve the required deep GHG reductions (Sims et al., 2014). This carbon intensity raises significant questions around the place of mobility and tourism in the Anthropocene, an era requiring transitions towards low-carbon futures.
The concept of transition provides a conceptual lens through which to examine change across temporal and spatial scales and from wide-ranging inter- and post-disciplinary positions. Low-carbon transitions will need to incorporate behavioural, technological and policy approaches. In this session we seek contributions spanning behavioural, technological and policy insights to transitions towards low-carbon mobilities. A broad definition of mobilities is applied for this session.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Examples of historical mobility transitions (e.g. transitions to motorised transport, geographical uptake of new innovations)
• Theoretical approaches to conceptualising low-carbon mobility transitions
• Transitions in specific geographic contexts including national and sub-national scales
• Transitions in car- and aero- mobilities
• Behaviour, technology and policy transitions.
We are seeking abstracts (c.250 words) for oral presentations to explore the landscape of transitions to low-carbon mobilities from wide-ranging perspectives. We may seek interest in a journal special issue following on from this session and hope to use this session to develop ongoing dialogue between contributors.
Timeline:
• Deadline for submission of abstracts: Wednesday 4th February 2015
• Responses from session convenors by: Friday 6th February 2015
• The session convenors will communicate the RGS response as soon as informed by the organisers after the RGS 20th February deadline
Abstracts and questions should be submitted to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
References:
Givoni, M. & Banister, D. (2013). Moving Towards Low Carbon Mobility, London, UK, Edward Elgar Publishing.
Sheller, M. & Urry, J. (2006). The new mobilities paradigm. Environment and Planning A, 38, 207-226.
Sims, R., Schaeffer, R., Creutzig, F., Cruz-Núñez, X., D’Agosto, M., Dimitriu, D., Figueroa Meza, M. J., Fulton, L., Kobayashi, S., Lah, O., McKinnon, A., Newman, P., Ouyang, M., Schauer, J. J., Sperling, D. & Tiwari, G. (2014). Chapter 8 - Transport. In: Edenhofer, O., Pichs-Madruga, R., Sokona, Y., Farahani, E., Kadner, S., Seyboth, K., Adler, A., Baum, I., Brunner, S., Eickemeier, P., Kriemann, B., Savolainen, J., Schlömer, S., von Stechow, C., Zwickel, T. & Minx, J. C. (eds.) Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge, UK and New York NY, USA: Cambridge University Press.
Dr Debbie Hopkins
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Centre for Sustainability (CSAFE)
University of Otago, New Zealand
Website: www.debbiehopkins.co.nz
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