"Scales of citizenship: Critical geographies of citizen engagements"

 

Call for papers - RGS-IBG annual conference, Exeter 2-4 September 2015

 

 

Session organizers: Cathrine Brun (Department of Geography, NTNU) and Marta Bivand Erdal (Peace Research Institute Oslo)

 

The sites and scales of citizenship, both above and below the national, are at the core of discussions in geographic citizenship research. The proposed session will focus on citizen engagements within the dynamic and complex landscape of multi-scalar citizenship politics. The session draws on the by now substantial literature on the politics of belonging and conceptualizations of citizenship which have received substantial attention in the past decade. We invite papers that take a critical approach to the relevance, meaning, practices and tensions within citizenship.  Not least from the perspectives of political geographers, questioning the sites of citizenship, scholars of migration and transnationalism have emphasized on the one hand the challenges mobility poses for citizenship as a concept tied with the nation-state system, and on the other hand contrasted this with migrants’ citizenship practices. The urban as a site of citizenship engagements, in the Global North as well as the Global South, highlights the significance of scale in contrasting and complementary ways.

 

This session on “Scales of Citizenship: Critical Geographies of Citizen Engagements” welcomes papers which address the theme empirically and/or theoretically, drawing on qualitative or quantitative data, based on research anywhere globally. Papers could focus on themes such as the following, but are not limited to this list:

 

- Contested spaces of citizen-participation

- Mobility and transnational citizenship engagements

- Urban citizenship and neighborhood as site of engagements

- Humanitarian status and citizenship

- The empowering and disempowering effects of citizenship

- New approaches to studying citizenship at different scales

- Intersections of citizenship as status and engagements in different sites

 

Please send abstracts of 200 words (max), together with your name, discipline, and institutional affiliation to Cathrine Brun [log in to unmask] and Marta Bivand Erdal [log in to unmask] by end of Monday 9 February 2015. Notifications of acceptance in the proposed panel will be sent by 12 February.

 

If you need further information, please do get in touch,

 

With best wishes,

Marta and Cathrine

 

 

Cathrine Brun

Professor

Department of Geography

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

NO-7491 Trondheim

Norway

Tel: +47 73 59 19 10

http://www.ntnu.edu/employees/cathribr

 

The Norwegian Researcher School in Geography: http://www.ntnu.edu/nrsg