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Topics of the day:

  1. Tenure-track position in Environment and Society at Penn State
  2. CFP/AAG 2017: Emotions and Practicing Everyday Urban Spaces
  3. Special Issue Call for Papers: Forgotten Corridors
  4. Geographies of Slow Violence - AAG cfp
  5. Professor in Human Geography, South-East Norway
  6. AAG 2017 CFP: Transnational urban expertise: geopolitics, histories and
     mobilities
  7. FW: Launch of IGU Gender Commission Young and Emerging Scholars Taskforce
  8. AAG CFP: Demographic fantasies and fever dreams: taco trucks, lesbian
     farmers, burkini bans, and the basket of deplorables
  9. Article request
 10. Call for PhD Fellowship in Critical Urban Geography at the University of
     the Balearic Islands
 11. Fw: Article request -RECEIVED
 12. FW: Postdoctoral Researcher - Institute of Development Studies
 13. Deadline Extended! Regional and Urban Studies for Strategic Planning and
     Development
 14. Kropotkin - good basic text for undergrads?
 15. Sheffield Hallam Univ. Guest Lecture: Professor P. Wood on "The Invisible
     and The Impossible: Activism and Citizenship in the 21st-century City"
 16. Food as a weapon: from Ivan the Terrible to McDonalds.
 17. CFP AAG 2017 Interrogating land, property, and land use: Investment,
     conflict, and politics
 18. bibliography- culinary appropriation
 19. CfP AAG2017: "Emancipatory Horizons of an Urban Century" (Ernstson &
     Swyngedouw) (2)
 20. AAG 2017 CFP : Alternative Urban Practices and Politics in Neoliberal
     Contexts: A Critical Approach
 21. AAG 2017 CFP :: Keywords for Urban Geography

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Date:    Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:47:10 -0400
From:    Jennifer Baka <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Tenure-track position in Environment and Society at Penn State

The Department of Geography at The Pennsylvania State University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the assistant or associate professor rank. We seek an established scholar whose research and teaching contributes to the area of Environment and Society as a subfield of Geography. Areas of investigation could include water resources, sustainability, health, urbanization, social justice, globalization, global environmental change, planning, or governance. A Ph.D. in Geography or a related field is expected at the time of appointment. It is expected that applicants in related fields will demonstrate how their work will fit within a diverse Geography department. Excellence in teaching, research, and service is expected, as is the development of an extramurally funded research program. Applicants should upload the following materials to the web link listed below: 1) a letter describing how they would contribute to the Department’s research and teaching program; 2) a complete curriculum vitae; 3) a maximum of five reprints; and 4) the names and addresses (including e-mail) of three references. All materials must be submitted electronically. Review of applications will begin October 14, 2016, but applications will be accepted until the position is filled. To apply:https://psu.jobs/job/66474 <https://psu.jobs/job/66474>

Applications from women and under-represented groups are encouraged. Questions about the position should be directed to the search committee chair, Dr. Brian King, Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, 302 Walker Building, University Park, PA 16802; Phone: (814) 865-2612; E-mail: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>.

Dr. Jennifer Baka
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography
The Pennsylvania State University
317 Walker Building
University Park, PA 16802
Tel: 814-865-9656
Email: [log in to unmask]

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Date:    Tue, 20 Sep 2016 11:12:08 +1000
From:    AFM Ashraful Alam <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP/AAG 2017: Emotions and Practicing Everyday Urban Spaces

[apologies for cross-posting]





2nd Call for Papers:

American Association of Geographers (AAG), Boston, April 5-9, 2017



*Emotions and Practicing Everyday Urban Spaces*




*Session organizers: Ashraful Alam and Nicole McNamara (Macquarie
University, Australia)*

Discussant: Dr. Laura Shillington (John Abbott College, Montréal)



‘Emotions’ and ‘affect’ are significant research themes within cultural
geography. Emotions, in particular, have been understood as shaping
individual phenomenological experiences of place and space. This approach
is critiqued in terms of its capacity to mobilize broader political actions
and social change. Yet, emotions are mediated and expressed through bodies,
politics and spaces. One of the key issues for scholars interested in
emotions is the role that the ‘body’ plays in the processes of social,
cultural, historical, political, economic and other forms of change through
the appropriation of the body. The body is not the opposite of culture, but
rather the site where culture is played out. This turn towards emotion as
an embodied manifestation of everyday practices requires a new emphasis on
space as bodies are necessarily situated in space.



Through this session, we invite scholars to explore the central
question: ‘what differences do emotions make in our everyday practices as
we (re)negotiate urban forms/spaces?’



The session organizers are currently researching the everyday practices of
cycling and homemaking. This entails rethinking the role that emotions play
in intimate, everyday practices and in informing broader socio-ecological
changes in cities, urban governance, and sustainability praxis. Emotions
play a significant role in the everyday cycling routines of cycling
practitioners in Sydney and in the homemaking practices of the urban
homeless in Bangladesh. Thinking through these emotionally charged
corporeal performances unfolds the nuanced and non-elitist ways urban
spaces are negotiated by cycling minorities in Australian car-centric
society and the climate-induced migrants living in the shadows of coastal
cities in Bangladesh.



We call for greater critical attention to whether emotion can be an
effective agent of change, a tool to be utilized through the individual and
collective assemblage of bodies in urban space. More broadly, we invite
papers that think through how emotion and everyday practices inform
negotiations of, or struggles for, urban spaces at the intersection of the
body. Mathew Gandy, John Urry and Doreen Massey have long suggested that
cities or spaces are corporeal achievements, and if bodies make sense in
space, they might make sense of how spaces are socialized, appropriated and
how politics are played out to establish the marginalized narratives in a
city.



The above questions and discussion are intended to stimulate ideas and
generate discussion but should not be viewed as limiting. We welcome both
theoretical and empirical contributions that seek to reimagine the terms of
this question to further our understandings of emotion and everyday
practices as agents of positive change in cities.



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Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to Ashraful Alam
(*[log in to unmask]
<[log in to unmask]>*) *and* Nicole McNamara (*[log in to unmask]
<[log in to unmask]>*) by Friday 14th October 2016. Accepted
submissions will be contacted by Friday 21st October 2016 and will be
expected to register and submit their abstracts online at the AAG website
by 27th October 2016 which is the earlybird registration deadline. Please
note that conference registration fees must be paid before the online
submission of abstracts.



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*References:*

Blazek, M., and Kraftl, P. (2015) *Children’s Emotions in Policy and
Practice: Mapping and Making Spaces of Childhood and Youth.* Basingstoke:
Palgrave.

Gandy, M. (2005) Cyborg urbanization: complexity and monstrosity in the
contemporary city. *International Journal of Urban and Regional Research* 29,
26-49.

Gandy, M. (2006) Urban nature and the ecological imaginary. In N. Heynen,
M. Kaika and E. Swyngedouw (eds.), *In the nature of cities: Urban
political ecology and the politics of urban metabolism*, Routledge, New
York, 63-74.

Letherby G and Reynolds G. (2009) *Gendered Journeys, Mobile Emotions*, London:
Ashgate Publishing.

Massey, D. (2005) *For Space*. London: Sage.

Sheller M. (2005) Automotive Emotions: Feeling the Car. In: Featherstone M,
Thrift N and Urry J (eds) *Automobilities.* London: Sage, 221-242.

Shillington, L. (2015) ‘Birds are for the girls’: children’s media
landscape and the emotional geographies of urban natures, in Skelton, T.,
Dwyer, C., & Worth, N. (eds). *Geographies of Children and Young People:
Volume 4: Geographies of Identities and Subjectivities*, Springer Reference.

Shillington, L. (2008) Being(s) in relation at Home: Corporealities,
Aesthetics, and Socialnatures in Managua, Nicaragua. *Social and Cultural
Geography *9(7): 755-776.

Simonsen K. (2010) Encountering O/other Bodies: Practice, Emotion and
Ethics. In: Anderson B and Harrison P (eds) *Taking-Place.* Farnham:
Ashgate.

Urry, J. (2013) City Life and the Senses. *The New Blackwell Companion to
the City*, pp: 347-356.





*Ashraful Alam*
Department of Geography & Planning
Faculty of Arts
Building W3A, Room 422
Macquarie University
NSW 2109 Australia
M: +61426581978

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Date:    Mon, 19 Sep 2016 22:27:07 -0700
From:    Kendra Strauss <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Special Issue Call for Papers: Forgotten Corridors

The editors of this open-access, peer reviewed journal have asked me to
circulate this CFP. The deadline is very tight, but the topic will be of
interest to some geographers.

Special Issue Call for Papers: Forgotten Corridors
The ongoing Syrian crisis has, in recent years, brought asylum and
migration back to the forefront of policy thinking, state action, and
public concern. In light of the ‘most significant crisis’ (for Europe)
since the Second World War, our responses to asylum migration are being
reimagined as new deals are being negotiated between states and
extraordinary measures being undertaken in an effort to ‘manage’ the crisis
– and to control the mobility of individuals. The human consequences have
been immense as migrants are forced into more and more risky routes to
achieve their journeys to safety, the most visible and disastrous of which
has been the tragedy of the Mediterranean Sea. Death, danger, and risk are
not new dimensions of the migrant journey, however, as asylum seekers
navigate restrictive and securitized border regimes to reach safety and to
rebuild their lives. Moreover, refugee and asylum policy and practice is
not limited to the Syrian crisis; the challenges remain global, and groups
and individuals move across borders seeking protection from persecution and
violence.

This Special Issue seeks to bring attention the global nature of asylum and
refugee politics, and to bring attention to the ‘forgotten corridors’ that
have disappeared from the political agenda in light of the Syrian
emergency. Papers will focus on migrant journeys, on the corridors of
mobility that are forged as they cross social, cultural, political, and
geographical borders. Some of these journeys are lengthy, some very short
as the mechanisms and practices of states capture mobility and prevent
movement. All journeys, however, are imbued with unique stories, with
confrontations with difference and the challenges of reception, and with
moments of solidarity with other migrants and with local populations,
activists, and workers.
We welcome papers that examine the migrant journey, the routes and
corridors of people on the move globally, and the spaces that can capture
these journeys such as reception and detention centres. Papers that engage
with ‘on-the-ground’ or new methodologies are particularly encouraged, and
practitioner perspectives and creative interventions are very welcome.

Submission Deadline: October 4, 2016
Inquiries can be directed to: Dr. Heather Johnson, [log in to unmask]

About the Journal: *Migration, Mobility & Displacement *is an online,
open-access, peer- reviewed journal. It seeks to publish original and
innovative scholarly articles, juried thematic essays from migrant advocacy
groups and practitioners, and visual essays that speak to migration,
mobility and displacement and that relate in diverse ways to the
Asia-Pacific. The journal welcomes submissions from scholars and migrant
advocacy groups that are publicly engaged, and who seek to address a range
of issues facing migrants, mobile and displaced persons, and especially
work which explores injustices and inequalities. Author Guidelines can be
found at:
http://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/mmd/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

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Date:    Tue, 20 Sep 2016 07:52:03 +0000
From:    "PAIN R.H." <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Geographies of Slow Violence - AAG cfp

Call for papers (Boston AAG April 5-9 2017)

Geographies of Slow Violence

Convenors:  Rachel Pain (Durham University), Caitlin Cahill (Pratt Institute, New York)

'A violence that occurs gradually and out of sight, a violence of delayed destruction that is dispersed across time and space, an attritional violence that is typically not viewed as violence at all' (Nixon, 2).

Rob Nixon's (2011) book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor highlights the 'attritional lethality' of many contemporary effects of globalisation. While his focus is environmental destruction and associated human rights issues, he notes that the processes involved in this form of structural violence have wider reach. To understand and act on contemporary global crises, Nixon cautions against being led by the spectacle-hungry 21st century media (see also Pain 2014).  Rather, slow violence is marked by invisibility, long term malaise and harm that have just as great, if not greater, toll on humanity; "the long dyings - the staggered and staggeringly discounted casualties, both human and ecological - that result from war's toxic aftermaths or climate change' (Nixon,2-3).

Beyond the effects of environmental catastrophe, geographers have found utility in the concept of slow violence in other areas of inquiry (e.g. Cahill et al 2016; De Leuuw 2016). It may be especially relevant to understanding how 'ordinary' and ongoing processes of colonial and racial capitalism take shape in concurrent structural/everyday violence, not as one-off spectacular events, but as continual, incremental discriminatory dispossessions of the state and capital at the intersections of gender, class, race and place.

This session aims to extend spatial accounts of slow violence, by bringing into dialogue analyses of the slow violences of global restructuring, neoliberalism and racial capitalism across sub-fields of our discipline. We welcome papers that further understandings of the geographies of slow violence. Papers might engage feminist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist and other critical perspectives to slow violence as it connects to environmental justice, policing, state-sanctioned intimate and/or geopolitical violence, collective trauma, housing injustices, migration and displacement, labour struggles, financial crises including austerity, and other examples. We especially welcome papers that reveal and/or contribute to the multi-sited resistances that contest slow violence.

Deadlines:
Please email abstracts to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]uk> and [log in to unmask]<mailto:caitc[log in to unmask]> by October 15th. Accepted submissions will be contacted by 20th October 2016 and will be expected to register, pay conference fees, and submit their abstracts online at the AAG website by 27th October 2016.


Rachel Pain
Professor of Human Geography
Department of Geography
Lower Mountjoy
Durham University
DH1 3LE
+44 (0)191 3341876
[log in to unmask]

Webpage https://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/staff/geogstaffhidden/?id=352

Co-Director, Participatory Research Hub - register now for free events, training and networking with academic and community researchers: https://www.dur.ac.uk/beacon/socialjustice/prh/

Co-Director, Centre for Social Justice and Community Action https://www.dur.ac.uk/beacon/socialjustice/

Director of Education, Geography Programmes https://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/undergraduate/

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Date:    Tue, 20 Sep 2016 09:56:18 +0200
From:    Lars Frers <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Professor in Human Geography, South-East Norway

There is an open position for a professor in human geography at University College of South-East Norway. The position will be part of the institute for culture, religion and social science. We are a nice and welcoming group and we really look forward to having a new person among us that can contribute with interesting research and a will to be a good teacher.

You will need to have command over a Scandinavian language to get this position and your teaching responsibilities will like ours be focused on (but not limited to) students in teacher education.

See the full ad (in Norwegian) here:
https://www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillinger/stilling/129322/professor-i-samfunnsgeografi <https://www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillinger/stilling/129322/professor-i-samfunnsgeografi>

Feel free to contact the department chair Anne Glenna , [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>,  the coordinator for social sciences Kerstin Bornholdt, [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]no>, or me.

The atmosphere here at the department is one of the best that I have experienced in my academic career, so don't hesitate!

--
Lars Frers

Recently published: “Confronting absence : Relation and difference in the affective qualities of heritage sites.” In T. S. Guttormsen & G. Swensen (Eds.), Heritage, democracy and the public : Nordic approaches (s. 285-296). Farnham: Ashgate.

Professor
University College of Southeast Norway
Department of Culture, Religion and Social Studies

https://www.usn.no/about-usn/contact-us/employees/lars-frers-article196846-7531.html

open access to publications etc.:
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/frers

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Date:    Tue, 20 Sep 2016 09:47:18 +0100
From:    Ruth Craggs <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: AAG 2017 CFP: Transnational urban expertise: geopolitics, histories and mobilities

Hi all,

We are looking for a couple more papers to complete our session at the AAG next year. Please do get in touch if you have any questions!

Transnational urban expertise: geopolitics, histories and mobilities

Conveners: Ruth Craggs (King's College London) and Hannah Neate (Manchester Metropolitan University)

This session brings together historical and contemporary accounts of transnational urban experts and expertise. We are interested in contributions that develop debates about urban expertise by connecting past and present, for example through exploring the prehistories of current policy and ideas, or destabilising the ahistorical nature of some accounts of urban policy mobilities. This includes research that troubles the directionality of urban policy mobility by highlighting how ideas travel from the global south, the Third World, or the Eastern bloc to Europe or the West, as well as those which circulate between countries of the global south; research that discusses places or ideas not often highlighted in discussion of urban policy mobility; or work that looks beyond the typical agents of urban expertise (e.g. architects, planners, economic consultants), to other, less researched actors (e.g. administrators, community development officers, artists, activists).

Possible themes for papers include:
•       Expertise in geopolitical transitions such as decolonization and the end of the Cold War
•       Novel methods for researching transnational experts and urban policy
•       Urban expertise and temporalities (e.g. careers and policies over longer time spans)
•       Flows of expertise which trouble typical flows from North to South
•       Postcolonial urban policy mobility

Deadlines:
Please email abstracts to Ruth Craggs at [log in to unmask] by the 7th October 2016. We will get back to everyone by 14th October 2016 and you will be expected to register, pay conference fees, and submit your abstracts online at the AAG website by 27th October 2016.

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Date:    Tue, 20 Sep 2016 11:51:58 +0000
From:    Patricia Noxolo <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: FW: Launch of IGU Gender Commission Young and Emerging Scholars Taskforce

Dear colleagues,

See below.

All the best,
Pat

Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 08:56:45 +0000
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Launch of IGU Gender Commission Young and Emerging Scholars Taskforce
To: [log in to unmask]



Apologies for Cross-posting.

Dear Colleagues,

In mid-July, the IGU’s Gender Commission launched it Young and Emerging Scholars Taskforce (YES!). The launch took place during the International Conference on Feminist Geographies and Intersectionality at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalunya. YES! outlined its primary goals to create a strong community of early career feminist scholars. Our intent is to use the taskforce to build a platform for networking, sharing and peer-peer mentoring, while also connecting to the resources of established feminist geographers who can be mentors and allies for early career feminist geographers.

As part of our efforts, we combined this introduction with a brief survey of attendees interested in YES! In particular we asked participants about their life and career goals, aspirations, and challenges as early career feminist scholars. If you’d like to participate in the survey, please visit the following URL link:https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JYSYFQ8. If you would like to learn more about YES! please contact our co-Chairs Caroline Faria ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]edu>) or Kamalini Ramdas ([log in to unmask]<mailto:geokr@nus.edu.sg>).

Yours in feminist solidarity,
Kamalini, Caroline, Milena, Laura and Annie
YES! Members



Dr. Kamalini Ramdas
Lecturer
Department of Geography
1 Arts Link, AS2 #03-19
National University of Singapore
Singapore 117570
Tel: +65-6516 6809
Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:geokr@nus.edu.sg>
Website: http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/geokr/






Dr Fiona M. Smith
Geography
School of Social Sciences
University of Dundee
Dundee DD1 4HN
UK
Tel: +44 (0)1382 384424
Fax: +44 (0)1382 388588
Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Web: www.dundee.ac.uk/geography<http://www.dundee.ac.uk/geography>




The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096

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Date:    Tue, 20 Sep 2016 13:23:08 +0000
From:    "Smith, Sara H" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: AAG CFP: Demographic fantasies and fever dreams: taco trucks, lesbian farmers, burkini bans, and the basket of deplorables

Demographic fantasies and fever dreams: taco trucks, lesbian farmers, burkini bans, and the basket of deplorables



Call for papers: Association of American Geographers Conference 2017, Boston, April 5-9



Following recent calls for critical and feminist human geographers to take demographic change seriously (Robbins & Smith 2016), we are inviting submissions about the origins of demographic fever dreams and fantasies. We’re interested in the work that they do, the danger that they pose to building solidarity across difference, but also the potential for play and subversion that is embedded in their vivid specificity. Traditionally, critical human geography has overlooked or ignored demographic change, and yet global demographic shifts are animating and inspiring political movements worldwide. Often, these shifts are mobilized in political discourses through specific demographic fantasies to instill anxiety and fear of perceived threats to the success of nations. These fantasies rely on normative ideas of gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religious difference, but also invent compelling narrative justifications for those ideas and a means for them to mutate and multiply.



In the 2016 US election cycle, for example, we have recently been privy to a deluge of  dreams and fantasies: a migration-engendered epidemic of “taco trucks on every corner,”[1]<file:///C:/Users/shsmith1.AD/Dropbox/Dropbox%20Documents/Writing/Demographic%20Fever%20Dreams/Demographic%20fantasies%20and%20fever%20dreams%20-%20almost%20final.docx#_ftn1> an Obama-sponsored invasion of lesbian farmers to undermine red state agricultural strongholds,[2]<file:///C:/Users/shsmith1.AD/Dropbox/Dropbox%20Documents/Writing/Demographic%20Fever%20Dreams/Demographic%20fantasies%20and%20fever%20dreams%20-%20almost%20final.docx#_ftn2> and a “basket of deplorables” containing half of all Trump voters. We describe these as fever dreams and fantasies because of their strikingly specific and dream-state features that leap from numerical measures and policy into a surreal and multivalent landscape of threat…or delight.



As we consider the political purpose of these demographic fantasies, the fears underlying them, and how the vivid imagery ties into fears of white masculine decline and panic, we wonder how we can unravel these oddly specific imaginaries. Beyond the US election, we also read an underlying element of demographic fantasy in worries about the presence of burkinis on French beaches, attempts to ban “sharia law” across the southern US and Europe, the rhetoric surrounding the Brexit, and numerous other global cases. In each of these instances, a vivid and fantastic fiction is used by figures with political power to amplify, imagine, and obscure demographic patterns of migration, birth, or mortality to consolidate political power or to dismiss or undermine class tensions and create fictions communities of homogeneity.



While it is easy to be smugly dismissive of fears about an unlikely takeover by “others,” here we hope to more carefully consider the content, deployment, and mechanisms of these vivid demographic imaginaries of threat. In so doing, we hope to build on, but also disrupt and complicate theoretical explorations in feminist political geography, which evoke the embodied life of territory and borders and the political life of demography (among others, Baldwin 2012; Bialasiewicz 2006; Dixon and Marston 2011; Fluri 2014; Gilmartin and Kofman 2004; Gökarıksel and Smith 2016; Jones and Johnson 2016; Massaro and Williams 2013; Pain and Staeheli 2014; Roberts 1998; Robbins and Smith 2016; Silvey  2005; Smith, Swanson, and Gökarıksel 2016; Smith and Vasudevan in progress).



We invite papers exploring demographic fantasies through political speech, popular culture, government policy, or other venues, and engaging with questions such as the following (but not limited to these):

  *   What political and cultural work do demographic fantasies do, and how do they do it?
  *   What role do gendered, sexualized, and racialized body politics play in demographic fantasies?
  *   What are effective responses to demographic fantasies? What is the potential for play and subversion (e.g., the social media responses to taco trucks on every corner, and the “basket of adorables”)?
  *   How do demographic fever dreams travel across contexts and political lines?
  *   How do demographic fantasies explicitly or implicitly engage with temporal and metanarratives and geographic imaginaries (such as the dangerous and uncertain future, and porous borders)?
  *   How might we respond to or understand the flights of demographic fantasy that emerge from rumors, exaggerations, or denials of seemingly incontestable truths? Especially when drawing attention to the fallacy only fuels the fantasy?

Please send abstracts to Sara Smith ([log in to unmask]),Banu Gökarıksel ([log in to unmask]<mailto:ba[log in to unmask]>) Chris Neubert ([log in to unmask]), by October 10, 2016.



Baldwin A, 2012, “Whiteness and futurity” Progress in Human Geography 36(2) 172–187

Bialasiewicz, Luiza. 2006. “‘The death of the West’: Samuel Huntington, Oriana Fallaci and a new ‘moral’geopolitics of births and bodies." Geopolitics 11: 701-724.

Dixon, Deborah P., and Sallie A. Marston.2011."Introduction: Feminist engagements with geopolitics." Gender, Place & Culture 18: 445-453.

Fluri J L, 2014, “States of (in)security: corporeal geographies and the elsewhere war” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 32(5): 795–814

Gilmartin, Mary, and Eleonore Kofman.2004. "Critically feminist geopolitics." Mapping women, making politics: Feminist perspectives on political geography.: 113-125.

Gökarıksel, Banu and Sara Smith. 2016.  “Making America Great Again”?: The Fascist Body Politics of Donald Trump.” Guest editorial for Political Geography. In Early View.

Jones, Reece, and Corey Johnson. 2016. Placing the border in everyday life. New York: Routledge, 2016.

Massaro, Vanessa A., and Jill Williams. 2013. "Feminist geopolitics." Geography Compass 7.8: 567-577.

Pain, Rachel, and Lynn Staeheli.2014. "Introduction: intimacy-geopolitics and violence." Area 46: 344-347.

Robbins, Paul and Sara Smith. “Baby bust: Towards Political Demography.” Early View at Progress in Human Geography.

Roberts, Dorothy. 1998. Killing the Black body. New York: Vintage.

Silvey, Rachel. 2005. "Borders, embodiment, and mobility: Feminist migration studies in geography." A companion to feminist geography: 138-149.

Smith, Sara and Pavithra Vasudevan. In progress. Introduction and themed section, “Race, Biopolitics, and the Future.” For Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.

Smith, Sara, Nathan Swanson, and Banu Gökarıksel. 2016 Introduction and themed section: “Territory, Bodies, and Borders,” Area 48: 258-261.

Tyner, James A. "Population geography I: Surplus populations." 2013. Progress in Human Geography 37: 701-711.





?[1]<file:///C:/Users/shsmith1.AD/Dropbox/Dropbox%20Documents/Writing/Demographic%20Fever%20Dreams/Demographic%20fantasies%20and%20fever%20dreams%20-%20almost%20final.docx#_ftnref1> Chokshi, Niraj. September 2, 2016. “‘Taco trucks on every corner’: Trump supporter’s anti-immigration warning” New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/us/politics/taco-trucks-on-every-corner-trump-supporters-anti-immigration-warning.html?_r=0



[2]<file:///C:/Users/shsmith1.AD/Dropbox/Dropbox%20Documents/Writing/Demographic%20Fever%20Dreams/Demographic%20fantasies%20and%20fever%20dreams%20-%20almost%20final.docx#_ftnref2> Erbentraut, Joseph. September 4, 2016. “These lesbian farmers aren’t here to take over America. They want to grow it.” Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lesbian-farmers-rush-limbaugh_us_57c879d6e4b0e60d31ddf5c0





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Sara Smith
Associate Professor
Geography
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
https://sarasmith.web.unc.edu

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Date:    Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:57:57 +0200
From:    Leonie tuitjer <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Article request

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Date:    Tue, 20 Sep 2016 16:47:49 +0200
From:    Sònia Vives <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Call for PhD Fellowship in Critical Urban Geography at the University of the Balearic Islands

Hi!

The Research Group on Sustainability and Territory of the Department of
Geography at the University of the Balearic Islands offers a PhD Fellowship
under the project “Crisis and social vulnerability in the Balearics and
Canary islands (Spain) cities. Changes in the social reproduction spaces”
(Reference: CSO2015-68738-P).

The fellowship is funded by the National Research Program of the Spanish
Government (National Programme for the Promotion of Talent and Its
Employability).The duration of the contracts is four years and retribution
will be 16,422 euros per annum, before taxes.

Further details on the call can be found: (See English version on page 7)
 http://media.wix.com/ugd/91d437_995e14af70ae4006a7692b2af7e6590d.pdf


Please forward to anyone you think might be interested.

Thank you
Sònia Vives-Miró

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Date:    Tue, 20 Sep 2016 16:53:50 +0200
From:    Leonie tuitjer <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Fw: Article request -RECEIVED

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Date:    Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:06:49 +0000
From:    Martina Caretta <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: FW: Postdoctoral Researcher - Institute of Development Studies


http://www.ids.ac.uk/job/postdoctoral-researcher




Dr Martina Angela Caretta, PhD
Assistant professor
Geography and geology department
West Virginia University
304 293 1107

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Date:    Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:07:26 +0000
From:    Wanda Miczorek <wanda.miczorek@REGIONALSTUDIES.ORG>
Subject: Deadline Extended! Regional and Urban Studies for Strategic Planning and Development

[cid:image005.jpg@01D21359.1000F140][logoengforum]RSA-Russia Conference 2016, St Petersburg, Russia
REGIONAL AND URBAN STUDIES
FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
24th October, 2016 - 25th October, 2016
Hotel Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya, St Petersburg, Russia
#RSARUSSIA2016
Registration deadline extended until 30th September 2016
The Russian Division of the Regional Studies Association (in partnership with the Leontief Centre and Russian Geographical Society), presents its inaugural conference in association with the XV All Russian Forum “Strategic Planning in the Regions and Cities of Russia”<http://www.forumstrategov.ru/eng>. This conference brings together both international and Russian researchers working in multiple disciplines in the fields of regional and urban studies. Conference attendees will be able to participate in plenary events of the highly prestigious XV All Russian Forum (to become better informed about strategic planning debates in Russia) and contribute to these discussions through their presentations at the conference sessions. The conference will also be open to all Forum participants.
Conference themes
Among the themes most relevant for spatial development, strategic planning and regional studies in Russia, the conference will focus on the following:

  1.  Urban and Regional Theory
  2.  ​Urban and Regional Policy and Planning​
  3.  New Economic Geography
  4.  Spatial Planning in Russia
  5.  Metropolitan regions: Planning and Governance
  6.  Urban-Rural Integration
  7.  Big Data in Urban and Regional Planning
  8.  Participatory Planning and Governance: NGOs, Civil Society and Territorial Development
  9.  Knowledge Economy and Regional/Local Economic Development
  10. Human and Social Capital in Territorial Development
  11. Migration, Investment and Trade: International and Interregional Context
  12. Inclusive Urban Development
  13. Territorial Inequality and Cohesion Policy
  14. Land use regulation and property rights
This list is not exclusive. Applicants may suggest additional topics not listed above, provided that the research has regional/local policy or spatial strategic planning implications.

Submission of papers – when registering please check the visa issuing time and requirements.
Submission Details Please submit your abstract (400 word abstracts) through the Regional Studies Association conference portal by 30th September 2016. To submit please go to http://www.regionalstudies.org/conferences/conference/rsarussia2016. Proposals will be considered by the Conference Programme Committee against the criteria of originality and interest, subject balance and geographical spread. For questions please contact Wanda Miczorek at wanda.miczorek@regionalstudies.org<mailto:wan[log in to unmask]org>.
With best regards,
Wanda Miczorek

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Date:    Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:49:30 +0000
From:    Nick Megoran <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Kropotkin - good basic text for undergrads?

Dear Critters,

I'm wanting to do some new teaching to second year undergrads on Kropotkin's thought. Can anyone recommend a good introduction? I can't see references to him in the common textbooks, and he's given short shrift in John Agnew and Luca Muscara's 'Making Political Geography.'

Thanks,

Peace - Nick

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>There are 16 messages totaling 6083 lines in this issue.
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>Topics of the day:
>
>  1. Chapter request
>  2. 2nd CFP AAG 2017: Theorizing the Geographies of Education and Learning
>  3. AAG 2017 CFP Mobile dwelling: labouring, inhabiting, spacing
>  4. 2nd CFP: AAG 2017: Theorizing Citizenship in Higher Education: Students as
>     Agents for Change?
>  5. Extended CFP: Third International Conference on Museums in Arabia
>  6. Books for review for the British Journal of Industrial Relations
>  7. Upcoming conference call for critical government, governance, and
>     administration submissions: Public Administration Theory Network
>  8. 2nd CFP Boston AAG (2016): Surviving Conflict Zones
>  9. Final Reminder: Workshop on Ecological Farm Internships: Models,
>     Experiences and Justice (Oct 13, 2016)
> 10. Refuge, The Subaltern and Urban Space - tomorrow in Brixton
> 11. AAG 2016 CFP: counter-geopolitics  of humor
> 12. AAG 2017 CFP: Populism, Democracy, and Expertise in Technological
>Worlds
> 13. Job at Univ. of San Francisco
> 14. Food Justice / Policy position at The Evergreen State College
> 15. AAG CFP: Financializing Rural Geographies
> 16. AAG 2017 CFP: Reparations, Restitution, Reconciliation?
>
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>
>Date:    Mon, 19 Sep 2016 04:21:05 +0000
>From:    Holly Randell-Moon <[log in to unmask]NZ>
>Subject: Chapter request
>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>Does anyone have a copy of Jacques Derrida's "Above all, No journalists" from
>the edited book Religion and Media by Hent de Vries and Samuel Weber?
>
>Kind regards,
>Holly.
>
>
>
>Dr. Holly Randell-Moon
>Department of Media, Film and Communication
>6th Floor Richardson Building
>Central Campus
>University of Otago
>Dunedin 9016
>New Zealand
>
>Area Chair, Religion
>Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand,
>PopCAANZ<http://popcaanz.com>
>
>Religion after Secularization in
>Australia<http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/Religion-after-
>Secularization-in-Australia/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137536891>
>
>Space, Race, Bodies<http://www.spaceracebodies.com>
>
>------
>"Replace us with the things that do the job better. Replace us with the things
>that do the job better" - Hot Chip
>
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>
>Date:    Mon, 19 Sep 2016 06:50:17 +0000
>From:    "Finn, Matt" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: 2nd CFP AAG 2017: Theorizing the Geographies of Education and
>Learning
>
>AAG 2017 | Boston, MA | 5th-9th April - Call For Papers
>
>
>
>Session title: Theorizing the Geographies of Education and Learning
>
>
>
>Session run in conjunction with: What's School Got to Do with It?: Race,
>Resistance, and a Call for Critical Geographies of Education (session details
>below)
>
>Organizers: Nicole Nguyen (University of Illinois-Chicago), Alice Huff (UCLA),
>Dan Cohen (University of British Columbia)
>
>
>Whilst it may have been the case that until recently "education has remained
>on the margins of critical geographical thought" in Anglophone literature at
>least (Hansom Thiem, 2009: 154), there has been a significant burgeoning of
>the geographies of education since
>then<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-
>fOjCB9xWKVCq995gvHU0AbQ4cY2dH750eP0Zownpzk/edit?usp=sharing>.
>Though not conceived as having the coherence of other subdisciplines, a more
>positive reading of the wider state of research is that that the geographies of
>education have avoided "subdisciplinary confinement" by consistently
>situating "education in the context of broader debates within the discipline"
>(Holloway, 2010: 584). With a call for a Critical Geographies of Education AAG
>specialty group the promise and risk of that subdisciplinary coherence may
>both be realized.
>
>Nevertheless, whether the geographies of education and learning have been
>disparate or, more charitably, resolutely plural such diversity provides creative
>challenges for theorizing the geographies of education and learning. The
>interaction with 'turns' (Kenway and Youdell, 2011; Waters, 2016) or
>engagement with existing geographical subdisciplines (see list below for
>examples) has widened the field of view considering education across the
>lifecourse; the histories, presents and futures of education; the relevance of
>attending to learning not only education, and the importance of 'alternative'
>forms of education and education and learning across in/formal spaces.
>Whether drawing on marxisms, critical race theories, post-colonialisms,
>feminisms, ANT and post-structural approaches there is a similar theoretical
>diversity (Bauer, 2015; Lipman, 2011; Madge et al., 2009; Olds, 2007).
>
>The session therefore seeks papers which consider:
>
>-          what kind of theories for what kinds of geographies of education and
>learning?
>
>-          what theories, or theoretical innovation, do geographies of education
>and learning offer the wider discipline and other disciplines?
>
>-          the place, promise and risks of theory in boundary-making/marking or
>policing subdisciplines with respect to geographies of education and learning
>
>-          empirical papers which foreground their theoretical contribution to the
>geographies of education and learning
>
>
>
>Please submit paper abstracts to session organizer: Matt Finn (University of
>Exeter) at [log in to unmask]<mailto:m[log in to unmask]> no later
>than September 30, 2016.
>Please provide a title, presenter details and an abstract (250 words) -
>http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/call_for_papers/abstract_guidelines
>
>
>
>References
>
>Bauer, I. (2015) Approaching geographies of education differANTly, Children's
>Geographies, 13 (5): 620-627
>
>Butler, T. and Hamnet, T. (2007) The geography of education: Introduction
>(Editorial), Urban Studies 44 (7): 1161-1174
>
>Collins, D., & Coleman, T. (2008). Social geographies of education: looking
>within, and beyond, school boundaries. Geography Compass, 2(1), 281-299.
>
>Collins, F. L. and Ho, K. C., Guest Eds. (2014) Special Issue: Globalising Higher
>Education and Cities in Asia and the Pacific, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 55 (2): 127-
>257
>
>Driver F. and A. Maddrell, (1996) Editorial: Geographical Education and
>Citizenship, Journal of Historical Geography, 22: 4.
>
>Dwyer, C., and Parutis, V. (2013) 'Faith in the system?' State-funded faith
>schools in England and the contested parameters of community cohesion,
>Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 38 (2): 267-284
>
>Gagen, E. A. (2000) An example to us all: child development and identity
>construction in early 20th-century playgrounds, Environment and Planning A,
>32:599-616
>
>Gagen, E. (2004) Making America flesh: physicality and nationhood in early-
>twentieth century physical education reform, Cultural Geographies 11: 417-42.
>
>Hamnett, C., & Butler, T. (2011). "Geography matters": The role distance plays
>in reproducing educational inequality in East London. Transactions of the
>Institute of British Geographers, 36(4), 479-500.
>
>Hanson Thiem, C. (2009) Thinking through education: the geographies of
>contemporary educational restructuring, Progress in Human Geography, 33
>(2): 154-73
>
>Hemming, P. J. (2015) Religion in the primary school: Ethos, diversity,
>citizenship. Abingdon: Routledge
>
>Holloway, S. L., Hubbard, P., Jöns, H., and Pimlott-Wilson, H. (2010),
>Geographies of education and the significance of children, youth and families,
>Progress in Human Geography, 34 (5): 583-600
>
>Holloway, S. L., and Jöns, H. (2012) Geographies of education and learning,
>Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 37 (4): 482-488
>
>Holt, L., Lea, J. and Bowlby, S. (2012) Special units for young people on the
>autistic spectrum in mainstream schools: sites of normalisation,
>abnormalisation, inclusion, and exclusion, Environment and Planning A,
>44:2191-2206
>
>Lipman, P. (2011). The new political economy of urban education:
>Neoliberalism, race, and the right to the city. New York: Routledge.
>
>Madge, C., Raghuram, P., Noxolo, P. (2015) Conceptualizing international
>education: From international student to international study, Progress in
>Human Geography, 39(6): 681-701
>
>Madge, C. Raghuram, P. and Noxolo, P. (2009) Engaged pedagogy and
>responsibility: a postcolonial analysis of international students, Geoforum, 40,
>1, 34-45.
>
>McCreary, T., Basu, R. and Godlewska, A. (2013) Introduction. Critical
>Geographies of Education, The Canadian Geographer/ Le Géographe
>canadien. 57, 3: 255-59
>
>Mills, S. (2013) 'An instruction in good citizenship': scouting and the historical
>geographies of citizenship education, Transactions of the Institute of British
>Geographers, 38(1):120-134
>
>Mills, S. (2016) Geographies of education, volunteering and the lifecourse: the
>Woodcraft Folk in Britain (1925-75), cultural geographies 23(1), 103-119
>
>Mills, S. and Kraftl, P. (2016) Cultural Geographies of Education, cultural
>geographies, 23 (1), 19-27
>
>Olds, K. (2007) 'Global assemblage: Singapore, Western universities, and the
>construction of a global education hub', World Development, 35(6): 959-975.
>
>Philo, C. (2016), 'Looking into the countryside from where he had come':
>placing the 'idiot', the 'idiot school' and different models of educating the
>uneducable, cultural geographies, 23(1): 139-157
>
>Pykett, J. (2010) Editorial: The Pedagogical State. Education, Citizenship,
>Governing, Citizenship Studies 14: 6, pp617-619
>
>Pykett, J. (2012) "Making youth publics and neuro-citizens: critical geographies
>of contemporary educational practice" in P.Kraftl, J.Horton and F.Tucker (Eds.)
>Youth Matters: critical geographies of children and youth: policy and practice.
>Policy Press, Bristol
>
>Waters J. L. (2016) Education unbound? Enlivening debates with a mobilities
>perspective on learning, Progress in Human Geography, OnlineFirst, 1-20
>
>
>
>
>
>AAG CFP, apologies for cross-listing
>
>
>
>Session title: What's School Got to Do with It?: Race, Resistance, and a Call for
>Critical Geographies of Education
>
>
>
>Organizers: Nicole Nguyen (University of Illinois-Chicago), Alice Huff (UCLA),
>Dan Cohen (University of British Columbia)
>
>
>
>In August 2016, Black Lives Matter published a report, A Vision for Black Lives:
>Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom, and Justice, that detailed its
>organizing platform. In this report, Black Lives Matter denounced the
>privatization of education and called for the installation of "real community
>control by parents, students, and community members" through democratic
>school boards and community control of curriculum, hiring and firing, and
>discipline policies. The report recognized that education reform in the United
>States continues to "strip[] Black people of the right to self-determine the
>kind of education their children receive." For the Black Lives Matter
>movement, community-controlled public education is essential to Black
>freedom and thus a key policy demand and site of struggle.
>
>
>
>Given the urgency of the current political moment, this session examines the
>centrality of education in struggles for freedom, justice, and self-
>determination. Whether understood as the "final frontier" of gentrification
>(Hankins, 2007) or an essential element of social reproduction (Katz, 2008),
>schools increasingly serve as important sites of geographic inquiry, both in
>intellectual pursuits (Lipman, 2011) and in grassroots organizing (Huff, 2013;
>Kearns, Lewis, McCreanor, & Witten, 2009). Despite the compelling
>associations between education and geography and an enduring disciplinary
>interest in various aspects of this relationship, a cohesive subfield dedicated
>to the critical examination of geographies of education has not yet emerged.
>We invite proposals that advance the subfield of critical geographies of
>education (e.g., Basu, 2004; Gulson, 2011; Hamnett & Butler, 2011; Holloway,
>Hubbard, Jons, & Pimlott-Wilson, 2010; Mitchell, 2003; Witten, Kearns, Lewis,
>& McCreanor, 2003) and/or examine the centrality of education in broader
>geographic inquiry (e.g., Butler, Hamnett, & Ramsden, 2013), with particular
>attention to social movements. Through the organizing of this session, we aim
>to develop a Critical Geographies of Education AAG specialty group.
>
>
>
>Potential areas of inquiry might include:
>
>
>
>·         Grassroots organizing related to education and broader social struggles
>contesting anti-Black and racist policies, neoliberalization and austerity (e.g.,
>Black Youth Project 100 and Black Lives Matter).
>
>·         The independent but co-constitutive ordering systems of racism and
>classism and the role of schooling.
>
>·         How social processes central to geographic inquiry are shaped by, and
>shape, schools (e.g., citizenship, gentrification, placemaking).
>
>·         The role of schools as sites of social reproduction in both reproducing and
>contesting dominant logics.
>
>·         The relationship between education policy/reform and possibilities for
>new forms of citizenship and collective action.
>
>
>
>Please submit paper abstracts to
>[log in to unmask]<mailto:nguyen[log in to unmask]> no later than September 30,
>2016
>
>
>
>References
>
>
>
>Basu, R. (2004). A Flyvbjergian perspective of public elementary school
>closures in Toronto: A question of "rationality" or "power"? Environment and
>Planning C: Government and Policy, 22(3), 423-451.
>
>Butler, T., Hamnett, C., & Ramsden, M. J. (2013). Gentrification, education and
>exclusionary displacement in East London. International Journal of Urban and
>Regional Research, 37(2), 556-575.
>
>Gulson, K. N. (2011). Education policy, space, and the city: Markets and the
>(in)visibility of race. New York: Routledge.
>
>Hamnett, C., & Butler, T. (2011). "Geography matters": The role distance plays
>in reproducing educational inequality in East London. Transactions of the
>Institute of British Geographers, 36(4), 479-500.
>
>Hankins, K. B. (2007). The final frontier: Charter schools as new community
>institutions of gentrification. Urban Geography, 28(2), 113-128.
>
>Holloway, S. L., Hubbard, P., Jons, H., & Pimlott-Wilson, H. (2010). Geographies
>of education and the significance of children, youth and families. Progress in
>Human Geography, 34(5), 583-600.
>
>Huff, A. (2013). Reforming the city: Neoliberal school reform and democratic
>contestation in New Orleans. The Canadian Geographer, 57(3), 311-317.
>
>Katz, C. (2008). Bad elements: Katrina and the scoured landscape of social
>reproduction. Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography,
>15(1), 15-29.
>
>Kearns, R. A., Lewis, N., McCreanor, T., & Witten, K. (2009). "The status quo is
>not an option": Community impacts of school closure in South Taranaki, New
>Zealand. Journal of Rural Studies, 25(1), 131-140.
>
>Lipman, P. (2011). The new political economy of urban education:
>Neoliberalism, race, and the right to the city. New York: Routledge.
>
>Mitchell, K. (2003). Educating the national citizen in neoliberal times: From the
>multicultural self to the strategic cosmopolitan. Transactions of the Institute of
>British Geography, 28(4), 387-403.
>
>Witten, K., Kearns, R. A., Lewis, N., & McCreanor, T. (2003). Educational
>restructuring from a community viewpoint: a case study of school closure
>from Invercargill, New Zealand. Environment and Planning C: Government and
>Policy, 21(2), 202-223.
>
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>
>Date:    Mon, 19 Sep 2016 07:01:35 +0000
>From:    David Bissell <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: AAG 2017 CFP Mobile dwelling: labouring, inhabiting, spacing
>
>AAG 2017 Mobile dwelling: labouring, inhabiting, spacing
>
>Session organisers
>David Bissell, Australian National University
>Andrew Gorman-Murray, Western Sydney University
>
>What might it mean to dwell in a mobile world? Travelling-in-dwelling and
>dwelling-in-travel (Clifford, 1997) have been important geographical
>preoccupations, especially over the last two decades. However, the intensity
>and configuration of these processes has arguably changed during this time. In
>particular, we have witnessed the rise of complex new mobility and migration
>practices related to work and employment (Cresswell et al., 2016), at a range
>of different scales. The intensity of these practices has been shaped by
>changing technologies of travel and communication, changing geopolitical
>forces, and changing economic circumstances. In light of such changes, we
>believe that the time is right for a reappraisal of what mobile dwelling might
>mean to geographers. We invite papers that address mobile dwelling through
>a diversity of theoretical and methodological perspectives. In particular, we
>are excited about including conceptually and empirically-oriented papers that
>address one or more of the following three themes:
>
>Labouring
>We invite papers that explore the relations of labouring that mobile dwelling
>creates. Mobile dwelling involves all kinds of bodily labours that stem from an
>array of material practices and processes. This labour signals a diversity of
>active competencies, skills and habits; and more passive modes of sustaining
>or suffering situations. These forms of labouring induce strange sorts of
>socialities, reworked intimacies, perhaps characterised by fleeting, ephemeral
>and weak ties (Nowicka, 2006). Mobile dwelling can also rework relationships
>of paid and unpaid labour, intensifying or breaking down certain forms of
>inequality in the process, and giving rise to new forms of valuation. We also
>invite papers that explore the methodological labour of tracing, narrating and
>performing mobile dwelling, such as multi-sited ethnographies, mobile
>methods, or more traditional methods repurposed for narrating mobile
>dwelling.
>
>Inhabiting
>We invite papers that explore how different forms of mobile dwelling
>challenge our understanding of inhabitation. Different processes of mobile
>dwelling have given rise to a range of unique sites of dwelling characterised by
>different modes of inhabitation such as tents, mobile homes, refugee camps,
>shanty towns, container settlements, trailer parks, hotels or short-term
>rented service apartments (Meier and Frank, 2016). Such diverse sites of
>mobile dwelling challenge us to address the knotty politics of inhabitation that
>mobile dwelling produces from a range of exciting conceptual perspectives.
>Inhabitation might involve rethinking conventional understandings and
>practices of domesticity. Inhabitation might also prompt us to think dwelling as
>a material process where sites themselves rewire bodily capacities and
>sensibilities in complex ways that invite us to rethink the very nature of
>mobile dwelling (Dewsbury, 2012).
>
>Spacing
>Finally, we invite papers that explore the intriguing and uncanny forms of
>spacing that mobile dwelling creates. From 'entubulation' and 'envelopment'
>to 'globes' and 'foams' (Sloterdijk, 2016), we are especially interested in
>exploring the new performative vocabularies that resonate with the special
>spatialities of mobile dwelling. Mobile dwelling might be phrased by unique
>translocal forms of distance and proximity (Urry, 2002) or multilocational living
>arrangements embedded in the circular migration patterns of economic and
>technological transformation (Dick and Reuschke 2012). Mobile dwelling might
>be differently worked through the crumpled topological concept of the
>assemblage (McFarlane, 2011). Exploring the spacings of mobile dwelling also
>invites us to unpick the ethical tensions that inhere between a 'centripetal'
>tendency to enclosure and security that characterises some approaches to
>dwelling with other approaches that are marked by a 'centrifugal' openness to
>exteriority (Harrison, 2007).
>
>Please send abstracts of 250 words or queries to both session organisers,
>David Bissell [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]au> and
>Andrew Gorman-Murray A.Gorman-
>[log in to unmask]<mailto:A.Gorman-
>[log in to unmask]>, by 14 October. We look forward to hearing
>from you!
>
>References
>Cresswell, T., Dorow, S. and Roseman, S. 2016. Putting mobility theory to
>work: Conceptualizing employment-related geographical mobility.
>Environment and Planning A. 48(9), 1787-1803.
>Clifford, J. 1997. Routes. Travel and translation in the late twentieth century.
>Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
>Dewsbury, J-D. 2012. Affective Habit Ecologies: Material dispositions and
>immanent inhabitations. Performance Research. 17(4), 74-82.
>Dick, E. and Reuschke, D. 2012. Multilocational Households in the Global South
>and North: Relevance, Features and Spatial Implications. Die Erde. 143(3), 177-
>194.
>Harrison, P. 2007. The Space between Us: Opening Remarks on the Concept of
>Dwelling. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 25(4), 625-647.
>McFarlane, C. 2011. The City as Assemblage: Dwelling and Urban Space.
>Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 29(4), 649-671.
>Meier, L. and Frank, S. 2016. Dwelling in mobile times: places, practices and
>contestations. Cultural Studies, 30(3), 362-375.
>Nowicka, M. 2006. Mobile locations: construction of home in a group of mobile
>transnational professionals. Global Networks 7(1), 69-86.
>Sloterdijk, P. 2016. Foams. Los Angeles: Semotext(e).
>Urry, J. 2002. Mobility and proximity. Sociology, 36(2), 255-274.
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date:    Mon, 19 Sep 2016 15:12:14 +0800
>From:    Cheng Yi'En <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: 2nd CFP: AAG 2017: Theorizing Citizenship in Higher Education:
>Students as Agents for Change?
>
>Apologies for cross-posting. Please note our 2nd call for abstract submission,
>with new deadline of 10 October 2016.
>
>
>*** CFP: American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2017, Boston
>MA, 5-9 April ***
>
>Theorizing Citizenship in Higher Education: Students as Agents for Change?
>
>Convenors: Mark Holton (Plymouth University) and Yi’En Cheng (Yale-NUS
>College)
>
>Citizenship – whether it is constitutional-legal status tied to certain rights and
>responsibilities; or practiced by people as they navigate obstacles to carve out
>spaces and communities of belonging; or even as embodied, sensuous, and
>felt within the psychic and emotional realms – is central to a repertoire of
>issues in contemporary restructuring of higher education around the world.
>Recent research has begun to question how various processes are changing
>students’ ideas and practices around citizenship: from the increasingly
>globalised networks of students moving around the world to the
>neoliberalization of higher education policies that have heavily marketized
>(transnational) degree programmes, term-time accommodation, and student
>organizations and unions; from the mounting pressure on students to search
>for and acquire ‘useful’ cultural and embodied capitals, such as critical
>thinking, emotional intelligence, and global competencies, to the ways in
>which students’ identities are negotiated, accepted, or rejected on campuses.
>At the same time, class, gender, race/ethnicity and other social differences
>continue to act as prisms through which inequalities are [re]produced, even
>though these can also occur alongside hopeful practices of love, care,
>solidarity, and anti-injustice. Analyses of interactions across structure, agency,
>and change are part and parcel of writings about these young people’s
>educational lives. How might the notion of citizenship help frame these
>ongoing discussions and/or open up conversations about students-as-
>citizens? What kinds of citizenships are emerging in these different moments
>of higher educational change? Relatedly, how can that further our
>understanding of higher education spaces as contentious, politicized, and
>possibly radical locations?
>
>In this session, we explore how citizenship can be theorized in diverse
>contexts of higher education, across both the global north and south. By
>fostering a dialogue between citizenship studies and geographies of higher
>education, the session will allow us to rethink and renew the research agenda
>on the geographies of higher education students. We are interested in
>multiple ways of thinking about citizenship as informed by students’
>experiences during and beyond term-time, their mobilities across various
>scales and borders, as well as their engagement with explicit and implicit
>forms of politics. We want to unpack the ways in which dominant
>understandings of the ‘student voice’ and the ‘student experience’ in higher
>education are assembled through representations, discourses, and practices
>of citizenship within particular political-economic and socio-cultural regimes.
>We are also keen to examine students’ responses to the burdens placed upon
>them in terms of peer, institutional and policy pressures and the extent to
>which this might act as potential catalysts for change. Papers that offer fresh
>materials, theoretically and empirically, to advancing existing scholarship on
>the geographies of citizenship in higher education and student lives are
>especially welcomed.
>
>Please submit a 250-word abstract with title and short bio to Mark Holton
>([log in to unmask]) and Yi’En Cheng (yien.cheng@yale-
>nus.edu.sg), by 10 October 2016.
>
>
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>
>Date:    Mon, 19 Sep 2016 13:30:29 +0400
>From:    Sarina Wakefield <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Extended CFP: Third International Conference on Museums in Arabia
>
>
>
>Second Call for Papers:
>
> The Third International Conference on Museums in Arabia
>
>April 18 -20, 2017, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
>
>
>
>Hosted by the American University of Sharjah
>
>with support from the Sharjah Museums Department
>
>
>
>Abstract Submission Deadline Extended: October 1, 2016
>
>
>
>Organizers:
>
>Dr. Sarina Wakefield, Adjunct Faculty, College of Arts and Creative Enterprises,
>Zayed University, UAE
>
>Seth Thompson, Associate Professor, Art and Design, American University of
>Sharjah, UAE
>
>
>
>
>
>The focus of the third edition of the Museums in Arabia conference
>encourages participants to engage in a broad discussion around architecture,
>art and design within the context of museums, galleries and heritage in the
>Gulf. Hosted by the College of Architecture, Art and Design at the American
>University of Sharjah in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, the conference will
>take place April 18-20, 2017. Sponsorship is provided by the Sharjah Museums
>Department.
>
>
>
>To date, the relationship between architecture, art, design and museums in
>the Gulf has remained at the margins of critical thinking. This conference
>seeks to address this gap by providing a forum for participants to analyze and
>discuss these themes to further academic discourse and professional practice
>within the region. The previous Museums in Arabia conferences have
>explored the role and development of Gulf museums (existing and planned)
>in the broadest sense. In particular, topics have examined the Gulf museum
>model; the challenges that museums in the region face in their development,
>the nature of the heritage collected; curated and displayed in the museums;
>and audience and community engagement.
>
>
>
>Authors are invited to submit paper proposals relating to architecture, art and
>design within the context of museums, galleries and heritage within the Gulf
>region. This is an interdisciplinary conference and, as such, we welcome paper
>proposals from scholars and practitioners from a broad range of disciplines.
>
>
>
>This conference will be of interest to academics and students working in the
>field of
>
>museums and cultural heritage in the region and globally, museum and gallery
>
>practitioners, art historians, artists, designers, architects, and, more broadly,
>those
>
>with an interest in the sociocultural, economic and political landscape of the
>region.
>
>Abstract Submission
>
>
>
>Each paper proposal submission must be in Microsoft Word format and
>include:  title of paper; abstract (250-400 words); bio (200 words); author(s);
>organization affiliation(s); complete mailing address; email address; and
>keywords (four to five keywords).
>
>
>
>The suggested themes for the 3rd International Conference on Museums in
>Arabia include but are not limited to:
>
>
>
>1.     Art, Architecture and the Museum: The development of new large-scale
>museum institutions, incorporating global architectural forms by ‘world-class’
>architects has received much attention within academia and the international
>press. This topic aims to broaden this discussion to include existing and new
>forms of architecture. In what ways do art, architecture and museums
>intersect? What can the architecture of museums and galleries tell us about
>local, national and transnational identity concerns? How can existing
>architectural forms enhance our knowledge of the sector in the region? Can
>and in what ways can architecture be considered an edifice of art in the Gulf?
>
>
>
>2.     Contemporary Art and Museums: How is contemporary art developing in
>the region? In what ways has the development of contemporary art in the
>region contributed to the development of museums, galleries and cultural
>institutions? What are the key movements within contemporary art in the
>Gulf and how do they relate to broader identity concerns such as belonging,
>identity, national identity and so forth?
>
>
>
>3.     Museums and Islamic Art: There is a strong tradition of Islamic art practice
>within the Arabian Peninsula. This theme explores the role of Islamic art as a
>practice and how this relates to the production of Arab and Islamic identity.
>We would be particularly interested in discussions relating to the
>development of museums of Islamic art and collecting practices across the
>region and how Islamic art practices in the Gulf challenge the taken-for-
>granted art historical discourses that are dominated by ‘western’ discourses of
>art.
>
>
>
>4.     Design and the Museum: Design is an area that has received much less
>interest within the debates that have emerged in relation to the museums
>and heritage sector in the Gulf. This session seeks to fill this gap by seeking to
>explore what role design plays in the production of museums and cultural
>practice in the Gulf? How can design inform our understanding of the
>relationship between heritage, identity and contemporary artistic practice?
>And how museums are influencing and supporting aspects of design?
>
>
>
>5.     Museums, Heritage and Digital Technology: The role that art and digital
>technology plays within the museums and heritage sector is well-established
>within the museological discourse. However, these discourses do not account
>for the ways in which digital technologies are used and engaged within the
>Gulf. We are particularly keen to explore how digital technologies are being
>used in museums and galleries across the Arabian Peninsula, how digital
>technology is used in the development of new museum institutions, and the
>ways in which digital technology is used to produce alternative forms of
>heritage re-presentation and dissemination that are produced and presented
>outside of the traditional walls of the museum.
>
>
>
>Abstracts addressing other themes relevant to this conference will also be
>considered.
>
>
>
>Deadline for abstract submission extended to: October 1, 2016
>
>
>
>Please submit abstracts to: [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
>For any queries regarding abstract submissions please email Sarina Wakefield
>at
>
>[log in to unmask] and Seth Thompson at [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
>Decisions will be communicated by October 31, 2016.
>
>
>
>Please note that selected conference papers will be developed into a book,
>co-edited by conference organizers Dr. Sarina Wakefield and Seth Thompson.
>If interested in participating, please indicate so on your paper proposal
>submission. Details regarding the potential publication will be communicated
>after accepted participants have been notified.
>
>
>
>The conference will take place over two days (April 18 & 19, 2017) with an
>optional one-day excursion to local museum sites relevant to the conference
>on April 20, 2017.
>
>
>
>For more information, please visit: http://www.aus.edu/mia2017
>
>
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>
>Date:    Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:22:55 +0100
>From:    Jane Holgate <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Books for review for the British Journal of Industrial Relations
>
>Dear colleagues
>
>I have the following list of books available for reviewing for the
>British Journal of Industrial Relations.
>
>Please let me know if you are interested in reviewing any of the.
>
>Best wishes
>
>Jane
>
>Reimagining Pensions
>The Next 40 Years Edited by Olivia S. Mitchell and Richard C. Shea
>
>A Manifesto for Labour Law: towards a comprehensive revision of workers’
>rights
>edited by K D Ewing, John Hendy and Carolyn Jones
>A Manifesto for Labour Law: towards a comprehensive revision of workers’
>rights
>The world of work has changed and with it the nature and role of the
>workforce. For the UK’s 31 million workers, many of the changes have had
>a devastating impact on their working lives and their living standards.
>Britain’s workers are amongst the most insecure, unhappy and stressed
>workers in Europe.
>
>
>China as an Innovation Nation Edited by Yu Zhou, William Lazonick, and
>Yifei Sun
>•    Offers an introduction on theories of innovation and its
>application to China, outlining the key institution China must build for
>innovation and strategies in the era of global production system
>•    Provides overview of the evolution of Chinese state policy in
>innovation, challenge the monolithic, static views of Chinese state and
>also discuss some major controversial state policies
>•    Includes new information on fast evolving financial landscape on
>innovation from outside state controlled channels
>•    Presents data and research on several sectors including mechanical
>engineering, railroads, information and communication technology, and
>wind and solar energy
>
>
>Labour, state and society in rural India class-relational approach
>By Jonathan Pattenden
>
>
>
>On Gender, Labor, and Inequality by Ruth Milkman
>Ruth Milkman's groundbreaking research in women's labor history has
>contributed important perspectives on work and unionism in the United
>States. On Gender, Labor, and Inequality presents four decades of
>Milkman's essential writings, tracing the parallel evolutions of her
>ideas and the field she helped define. Milkman's introduction frames a
>career-spanning
>
>Ruth Milkman is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at The CUNY
>Graduate Center. Her books include L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the
>Future of the U.S. Labor Movement and Gender at Work: The Dynamics of
>Job Segregation by Sex during World War II. She is the 2016 president of
>the American Sociological Association.
>
>
>A Better Way of Doing Business? Lessons from The John Lewis Partnership
>Graeme Salaman and John Storey
>his book offers a thoroughly researched and accessibly written account
>of the John Lewis Partnership. It describes what the JLP is, how it
>works, and what other businesses can learn from it.
>
>The US/UK model of the firm, with its emphasis on shareholder value and
>its openness to the market in the buying and selling of businesses, is
>prone to a number of problematic consequences for employees, suppliers,
>and sometimes share-holders. The JLP represents a contrast to this model
>- one that has implications beyond the small niche of mutually-owned
>firms. The JLP has lessons for organizations that are unlikely to move
>towards the Partnership's distinctive shared ownership. This book
>identifies these lessons.
>
>The key questions addressed include: how does the JLP work in practice?
>What is the link between co-ownership, the JLP employment model, and the
>performance of the businesses? What is the role of management in the
>success of John Lewis and Waitrose? Are mutuality, co-ownership and
>business performance at odds? What is the significance of democracy
>within the JLP? And probably most significantly: what are the
>implications, for policy-makers and for economic agents of the JLP? This
>book is based on detailed knowledge of the JLP and its constituent
>business gathered by the authors over a fifteen year period. Their
>conclusion: that the JLP is more complex, even more impressive, and more
>interesting than its admirers realise.
> 
>Stewart's Guide to Employment Law 5th edition
>By Andrew Stewart
>
>This new edition explains the changes made by the Fair Work Amendment
>Act 2013, including the Fair Work Commission’s new power to deal with
>claims of workplace bullying. It details the Abbott Government’s reform
>agenda, covering important changes not just to the Fair Work Act, but to
>legislation on parental leave, superannuation, the recovery of employee
>entitlements, the building and construction industry, and registered
>organisations. It also highlights the potential for further changes from
>various inquiries that have been established, as well as the first
>four-yearly review of the modern award system.
>The text has been updated to incorporate new case law since the last
>edition, including important decisions by the High Court on whether
>there is an implied duty of ‘mutual trust and confidence’ in the
>employment relationship, whether employers can dismiss employees for
>‘offensive’ conduct during otherwise lawful union activities, and the
>scope of an employer’s obligation to withhold pay from striking workers.
>Reference is also made to some controversial changes to State laws,
>particularly on the powers of industrial tribunals to set wages and
>conditions for public sector workers, and on the control of disruptive
>pickets and workplace protests.
>
>
>Unequal Britain at Work
>Edited by Alan Felstead, Duncan Gallie, and Francis Green
>•    Offers both a historical perspective and up to date picture
>•    Based on the voices and experiences of workers themselves
>•    Uses high-quality, clustered random survey sampling
>•    Has implications for skills; training and job quality policies
>•    Important study of work and inequality
>
>
>Working through the Past
>Labor and Authoritarian Legacies in Comparative Perspective . Edited by
>Teri L. Caraway
><http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100597690&fa=aut
>hor&Person_ID=3785>,
>Maria Lorena Cook
><http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100597690&fa=aut
>hor&Person_ID=1782>,
>Stephen Crowley
><http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100597690&fa=aut
>hor&Person_ID=5159>
>Democratization in the developing and postcommunist world has yielded
>limited gains for labor. Explanations for this phenomenon have focused
>on the effect of economic crisis and globalization on the capacities of
>unions to become influential political actors and to secure policies
>that benefit their members. In contrast, the contributors to Working
>through the Pasthighlight the critical role that authoritarian legacies
>play in shaping labor politics in new democracies, providing the first
>cross-regional analysis of the impact of authoritarianism on labor,
>focusing on East and Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.
>Legacies from the predemocratic era shape labor’s present in ways that
>both limit and enhance organized labor’s power in new democracies.
>Assessing the comparative impact on a variety of outcomes relevant to
>labor in widely divergent settings, this volume argues that political
>legacies provide new insights into why labor movements in some countries
>have confronted the challenges of neoliberal globalization better than
>others.
>
>
>
>The Politics of Work–Family Policies
>Comparing Japan, France, Germany and the United States. Patricia Boling
>
>The work-family policies of Sweden and France are often held up as
>models for other nations to follow, yet political structures and
>resources can present obstacles to fundamental change that must be taken
>into account. Patricia Boling argues that we need to think realistically
>about how to create political and policy change in this vital area. She
>evaluates policy approaches in the US, France, Germany and Japan,
>analyzing their policy histories, power resources, and political
>institutions to explain their approaches, and to propose realistic
>trajectories toward change. Arguing that much of the story lies in the
>way that job markets are structured, Boling shows that when women have
>reasonable chances of resuming their careers after giving birth, they
>are more likely to have children than in countries where even brief
>breaks put an end to a career, or where motherhood restricts them to
>part-time work.
>
>
>Gendering and Diversifying Trade Union Leadership
>Edited by Sue Ledwith, Lise Lotte Hansen
>Examining the experiences of leadership among trade unionists in a range
>of unions and labor movements around the world, this volume addresses
>perspectives of women and men from a range of identities such as
>race/ethnicity, sexuality, and age. It analyses existing models of
>leadership in various political organizational forms, especially trade
>unions, but also including business and management approaches,
>leadership forms which arise from fields such as community, pedagogy,
>and the third sector.
>This book analyzes and critiques concepts, expectations, and experiences
>of union leaders and leadership in labor organizations, while comparing
>gender and cultural perspectives. Contributors to the volume draw on
>empirical research to identify key ideas, beliefs and experiences which
>are critical to achieving change, setting up resistance, and
>transforming the inertia of traditionalism.
>
>--
>Professor Jane Holgate
>Professor of Work and Employment Relations
>
>Work and Employment Relations Division
>Leeds University Business School
>31 Lyddon Terrace (room 2.05)
>University of Leeds LS2 9JT
>
>email: [log in to unmask]
>Mobile: 07960 798399
>
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>
>Date:    Mon, 19 Sep 2016 11:12:51 -0400
>From:    Sarah Surak <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Upcoming conference call for critical government, governance, and
>administration submissions: Public Administration Theory Network
>
>Hello!
>
>I’m serving as the program chair for this year’s Public Administration
>Theory Network  <http://www.patheory.net/>(PAT-Net) conference
><http://www.patheory.net/index.php/2017-conference/>.  The annual
>conference casts a wide and interdisciplinary net exploring the
>intersection of theory and critical understandings of government,
>governance, and administration. Please consider participating in this
>conference and passing along this call to others who might have interest. I
>am more than happy to answer additional questions at
>[log in to unmask]
>
>The 2017 Annual Conference “Tension and Transition: The New Frontiers of
>Public Administration” will be held June 1-4 in Laramie, Wyoming. The
>submission deadline for panels and papers is November 14, 2016.
>
>Full call <http://patheory.net/docs/2017ConferenceDocs/CFP_2017.pdf>:
>"Tension and Transition: The New Frontiers of Public Administration”
>
>The frontier connotes a limit, the stark juxtaposition of the known and the
>unknown and the understandable from the chaotic. On the one hand,
>frontiers
>are edges, boundaries, and borders subject to the tension between ordered
>politics and anarchy. Within the administration of existing political,
>economic, and social formations, frontiers separate that which is settled,
>known, and unchallenged from that which is not. Frontiers create the
>“other” or “others” existing outside of current relations and stabilize
>practices of difference and separation.
>
>Within the context of knowledge formation, frontiers describe existing
>parameters while simultaneously delimiting spaces for new possibilities.
>Encounters at the frontier oscillate between the static and the active,
>both reifying existing practices and creating openings for the development
>of new forms of knowledge, information and practice. The 2017 Public
>Administration Theory Network requests papers for its annual conference
>that explore the tension between stability and possibility within the
>practices and theories of public administration. How does the defining of
>frontiers create limits and conflicts? Where might frontiers open space for
>emancipatory transitions to new forms of administration or governance?
>What
>tensions exist in the expansion or contraction of frontiers? How might
>public administration overcome that which should not be stable or static
>within democratic administration?
>
>The 2017 Program Committee invites panel and paper proposals that track
>along the conference theme and/or any of the following new frontiers within
>public administration:
>
>   - New forms and uses of technologies (biometrics, surveillance, etc.)
>   - Emerging and shifting definitions identity (gender, race, class)
>   - Geographic frontiers of public administration
>   - Broadening research questions to counter the tendency towards research
>   narrowness
>   - The possibilities for citizen participation and engagement • Social
>   movements and citizen protest
>   - The tensions or complementarities between globalization and
>   cosmopolitanism
>   - (Re)negotiating the urban/rural divide
>   - Secularism and religion in political practices and expressions
>   - Disciplinary and interdisciplinary forms of knowledge(s)
>   - Institutional practices of democracy
>
>For panel proposals (which are encouraged), include a 150 - 300 word
>description of the panel theme and 150- 250 word abstracts for each paper
>in the panel.
>
>Panels should normally include 3-4 papers, a convener and a discussant.
>Panel proposals should include at least 3 presenters. Additional panel
>members and conveners and discussants may be added by the program
>committee.
>
>Paper proposals should take the form of 150-250 word abstracts. For both
>papers and panels, please indicate how the proposal relates to the theme
>and/or topics listed above. Final paper titles may be submitted later.
>Doctoral students are encouraged to submit proposals.
>
>Please send papers and panel proposals to the Program Committee Chair:
>Sarah Surak [log in to unmask]
>
>The submission deadline is Monday, November 14, 2016
>
>
>Sarah Surak, Ph.D.
>Assistant Professor, Departments of Political Science
>and Environmental StudiesCo-Director, Institute for Public Affairs and
>Civic Engagement (PACE)Director of Faculty Engagement, PACE
>Salisbury University, USA
>
>Fulton Hall Room 280F
>1101 Camden Avenue
>Salisbury, MD 21801
>[log in to unmask]
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>
>Date:    Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:53:01 -0700
>From:    Craig Jones <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: 2nd CFP Boston AAG (2016): Surviving Conflict Zones
>
>Dear Geographers,
>
>
>Please see the below CFP for the Boston AAG. Note the deadline is OCT 20th
>2016.
>
>
>Thanks so much,
>
>Craig
>
>
>
>*SURVIVING CONFLICT ZONES*
>
>
>*Organisers: Peter Adey (RHUL), Derek Gregory (UBC), Craig Jones
>(UBC/Newcastle from February 2017)*
>
>
>
>The emergence of critical studies of geographies of war has seen a
>sustained focus on the conduct of military and paramilitary violence and on
>the necro-politics of conflict, but comparatively little attention has been
>paid to the multiple ways in which people -- combatants, civilians,
>reporters, humanitarian actors and others -- *survive *in conflict zones
>(and sometimes even prosper). What apparatuses and circuits of care –
>architectural constructions, field supplies and medical equipment,
>expertise, communication systems, evacuation chains, field hospitals,
>vehicles, and even insurance products – are making conflict zones more or
>less survivable? In what ways do the injuries of war - physiological,
>psychological even social - prove terminal or less than deadly? What forms
>of violence prove most injurious in conflict and its aftermath?
>
>
>
>Such questions have become all the more important as military and
>paramilitary violence continues to breach the boundaries of any
>conventional 'battlefield', as the distinctions between combatants and
>non-combatants are increasingly called into question, as yet more actors
>are drawn closer to the killing fields, as the sources of information vital
>for survival multiply, and as the definition and meaning of a ‘conflict
>zone’ are brought increasingly into question, legally, politically and
>experientially.  We seek contributions that address these and related
>issues in the past or in the present.  Possible themes include:
>
>
>
>Hospitals and medical care in conflict zones
>
>Systems of casualty evacuation
>
>Food supplies and provisioning in conflict zones
>
>Trauma, grief, stress and survival
>
>Gender relations and sexual violence
>
>Reporting from conflict zones
>
>Local knowledge, information networks and conflict zones
>
>Corpographies of conflict zones
>
>Injury, pain and corporeality
>
>Refugee strategies and experiences
>
>Transport, vehicles and mobility
>
>Slow violence, infrastructural violence, and long term suffering
>
>*If you are interested in participating, please send a title and 250-word
>abstract to Craig at [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> by 20 October
>2016. * We know that at this stage your abstract can only be a promissory
>note - accepted abstracts can be edited online until 23 February 2017.
>
>Best,
>Peter, Derek and Craig
>
>--
>Craig Jones
>
>*warlawspace.org <http://warlawspace.org>*
>*megeog.org <http://megeog.org>*
>Lecturer & PhD Student, Department of Geography
>Liu Scholar, Liu Institute for Global Issues
>University of British Columbia
>
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>
>Date:    Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:03:06 -0400
>From:    Charles Levkoe <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Final Reminder: Workshop on Ecological Farm Internships: Models,
>Experiences and Justice (Oct 13, 2016)
>
> *---Registration Deadline Extended to Friday September 26, 2016---*
>
>
>*Workshop on Ecological Farm Internships: Models, Experiences and Justice*
>
>*October 13, 2016, 9:00am-5:00pm *
>
>*Father Madden Hall, 100 St. Joseph Street, Toronto**Register by September
>26 at http://goo.gl/forms/92Y1cwiRccOy9FAx2
><http://goo.gl/forms/92Y1cwiRccOy9FAx2>. *
>
>Over the past decade, growing numbers of interns, apprentices and
>volunteers have been working on ecological farms across North America and
>Europe.  Increasingly, farmers are looking to young people seeking hands-on
>farm experiences as a way to train the next generation of ecological
>producers and meet the labour demands of their operations.  Interns often
>exchange their labour for room and board, a stipend and importantly,
>training in agro-ecological and/or organic production methods.  This is a
>relatively new and potentially defining trend within the ecological farming
>sector with considerable significance for farm operators, interns and the
>broader food movement.
>
>
>
>Recently, public attention has been focused on the ethics and legalities of
>internships across the economy, and throughout political offices and the
>non-profit sector.  At the same, several legal cases around ecological farm
>internships have transpired in the US and in British Columbia as
>interns/workers have sought and received back-pay for their ‘unpaid’ or
>‘underpaid’ work. This heightened public attention has thrown into question
>the viability, legality, and potentially the fairness of the exchanges
>taking place between farm hosts and aspiring farmers.
>
>
>
>This workshop brings together farmers, interns, food and agriculture
>activists, researchers and legal experts to participate in an interactive
>discussion about the opportunities and challenges associated with emergent
>forms of farm work and training.  The goal is to assess the possible
>trajectories that the issue may take while examining what ‘just food
>labour’ might mean for interns, farm workers, farmers and for those
>advocating for socially just and ecologically sustainable agriculture and
>food systems. We invite you to join us to examine these themes from a
>series of different vantage points that cut across organizations,
>geographical spaces and positions in the food system.
>
>
>
>The workshop will be broken down into three sequential ‘sessions’ organized
>as follows:
>
> I.       Models of Farmer Training and Farm Internships
>
>Representatives of CRAFT, ACORN and Soil Association, who are all engaged
>with farmer training and internships will describe the various models they
>have developed across Canada and the United Kingdom.  The panelists will
>discuss what has and has not worked in the various contexts in which they
>operate and why. Additionally, speakers will share their thoughts on where
>the farm internship issue is headed and what can be done to create
>arrangements that might work best for all involved.
>
> II.       Perspectives and Experiences on Farm Internships
>
>What insights on farm internships can be gleaned from those uniquely
>positioned in relation to the issue?  This session investigates the
>politics and practicalities of farm internships from the perspective of a
>past intern, a farmer who hosts interns and an owner-operator that has
>moved away from internships and towards paid employees.  The panelists will
>discuss the realities of staffing farms with interns and paid workers and
>the quandaries around fair compensation, training, and the potential for
>exploitation.
>
> III.       Justice, Law and Social Movements
>
>Building on the previous discussions, this session tackles some of the
>thornier questions around farm internships.  Panelists will take on issues
>of justice, legal considerations and movement building.  What does just
>labour mean in a context in which many producers persist in a state of
>financial precarity? Who gets to be a farmer? Are internships legal in the
>context of various agricultural exceptions to labour laws? Are farm
>internships part of emerging alternative economies and movements?
>Lunch will be served and a final report will document the presentations and
>discussion.
>A $10 fee will be collected at the beginning of the day to cover the cost
>of lunch.
>
>*Register by September 26 at http://goo.gl/forms/92Y1cwiRccOy9FAx2
><http://goo.gl/forms/92Y1cwiRccOy9FAx2>. *
>
>For more information please contact [log in to unmask] or at
>www.foodandlabour.ca.
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date:    Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:10:56 +0000
>From:    UCL Urban Laboratory <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Refuge, The Subaltern and Urban Space - tomorrow in Brixton
>
>Dear colleagues,
>
>UCL Urban Laboratory is hosting an evening in Brixton tomorrow, as part of
>the London Design Festival and Brixton Design Trail.
>
>Refuge, The Subaltern and Urban Space is an evening of talks, screenings and
>music interrogating the role of the city in the exclusion, inclusion and re-
>identification of subaltern groups. There will be series of fascinating talks on
>the subject from UCL speakers, plus screenings of the films Ordinary Streets
>and No More Beyond.
>
>Weblink: http://bit.ly/2cFazVk
>Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1693543327634217
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Jordan
>
>Jordan Rowe
>Centre Manager, UCL Urban Laboratory
>Tel: +44 (0)20 3108 9402 (intl. 59402)
>[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>ucl.ac.uk/urbanlab<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanlab> /
>@UCLurbanlab<https://twitter.com/UCLurbanlab>
>
>Sign up to the Urban Circular <http://bit.ly/urbancircular>
>news<http://bit.ly/urbancircular>letter<http://bit.ly/urbancircular>
>
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>
>Date:    Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:42:39 +0000
>From:    Jessie H Clark <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: AAG 2016 CFP: counter-geopolitics  of humor
>
>Dear friends, please see the following CFP for AAG 2016. Thanks!
>
>Call for Papers: Geographies and Counter-geopolitics of Humor amid Adversity
>
>Organizers: Lisa Bhungalia (Ohio State), Jessie Clark (Nevada), Jennifer Fluri
>(Colorado),  Azita Ranjbar (Penn State)
>
>Geographers draw on the geopolitics of vulnerability, precarity, biopower,
>homo sacer, and bare life (Agamben 1998, 2005; Butler 2006, 2009; Foucault
>1978, 1980) to critically analyze gender, race, class, conflict, violence, and
>marginalization. Vulnerable bodies living in situations of conflict, abuse, acute
>violence, and displacement have simultaneously used humor and humorous
>acts and actions as an everyday form of counter-geopolitics. This session
>addresses the use of humor by vulnerable bodies in spaces and situations of
>continual and protracted adversity, especially through the lens of feminist
>geopolitics and emotional geographies. We seek papers that draw on
>ethnographic encounters with humor as an embodied and affective practice
>of coping, resisting and surviving adversity.
>
>Humor amid adversity has been the subject of geopolitical research on
>political conflict and social justice. Geographers analyze and describe humor as
>a geopolitical tool of social movements (Routledge 2012) and a form of political
>satire in popular geopolitics (Cameron 2015, Dodds and Kirby 2013, Dittmer
>2010, 2013, Kuus 2008), both deployed to contest and undermine hegemonic
>power. In a discussion of the subversive power of the Czech literary character,
>Švejk, Kuus suggests that humor “offers a lens through which we can think
>about agency of the margins without romanticizing their weak power
>position” (Kuus 2008, 259). Humor undermines rather than opposes power
>regimes (Kuus 2008) and calls attention to serious issues of power and
>inequality (Cameron 2015). Conversely, Billig (2005) describes “unlaughter”, “a
>display of not laughing when laughter might otherwise be expected, hoped
>for or demanded” (192) as another technique used to initiate critique, parody
>or resistance, particularly in situations that are not humorous (Hammett 2010).
>
>In these examples, humor creates a distinctive and shared sense of place, a
>social bond, consolidates group identities and borderlines, and offers
>methods for creative opposition (Ridanpää 2014). Much of this research to
>date, however, has focused on the macro-scale and discursive expressions of
>humor as a form of resistance (Mehta 2012, Richards 2014) and political
>performance, while the everyday and affective engagements with humor in
>geopolitics are under-examined. Dittmer writes that geopolitical assemblages
>produce affective experiences – humorous and otherwise - that facilitate
>consensus building and debate (Dittmer 2013, Routledge 2013). And, Horn
>(2011) and Macpherson (2008) describe the everyday use of humor by
>vulnerable bodies as a coping mechanism and method to subvert stereotypes.
>Building on these insights, the papers in this session evaluate the embodied
>sites of humor from the voices of individuals/groups living in situations of
>uncertainty and conflict. We invite papers that draw on feminist geopolitics
>and/or emotional geographies (affect) to examine humor as a geopolitical
>coping mechanism, a form of resistance, and tactic of survival amid adversity.
>
>Please submit abstracts to Jessie Clark
>([log in to unmask]<mailto:j[log in to unmask]>) and Jennifer Fluri
>([log in to unmask]<mailto:Jennifer.fluri@colorado.edu>) by
>October 15th.
>
>Selected Sources
>Askins, K. 2009. ‘That’s what I do’: placing emotion in academic activism.
>Emotion, Space and Society 2, pp. 4-13.
>Billig, M. 2005. “Laughter and unlaughter”. In: Billig, Laughter and ridicule:
>towards a social critique of humour. London: Sage Publications, pp. 175-199.
>Cameron, J. 2015. Can poverty be funny? The serious use of humour as a
>strategy of public engagement for global justice. Third World Quarterly 36(2),
>pp. 274-290.
>Dittmer, J. 2005. Captain America’s Empire: reflections on identity, popular
>culture , and post-911 geopolitics. Annals of the Association of American
>Geographers95(3), pp. 626-643.
>Dodds, K. 2010. Popular geopolitics and cartoons: representing power
>relations, repetition and resistance. Critical African Studies 2(4), pp. 113-131.
>Dodds, K. and Kirby, P. 2013. It’s not a laughing matter: critical geopolitics,
>humour and unlaughter. Geopolitics 18(1), pp. 45-59.
>Flint, C. 2001. The geopolitics of laughter and forgetting: a world-systems
>interpretation of the post-modern geopolitical condition. Geopolitics 6(3), pp.
>1-16.
>Gibson, C. 2013. Welcome to Bogan-ville: reframing class and palce through
>humour. Journal of Australian Studies 37(1), pp. 62-75.
>Hammett, D. 2010. Political cartoons, post-colonialism and crtitical African
>Studies. Critical African Studies 2(4), pp. 1-26.
>Hernann, A. 2016. Joking through hardship: humor and truth-telling among
>displaced Tumbuktians. African Studies Review 59(1), pp. 57-76.
>Horn, K. 2011. ‘Stalag happy’: South African prisoners of war during World War
>Two (1939-1945) and their experience and use of humour. South African
>Historical Journal 63(4), pp. 537-552.
>Kuus, M. 2008. Svejkian geopolitics: subversive obedience in Central Europe.
>Geopolitics 13(2), pp. 257-277.
>Macpherson, H. 2008. “I don’t know why they call it the lake district they might
>as well call it the rock district!” The workings of humour and laughter in
>research with members of visually impaired walking groups. Environment and
>Planning D: Social and Space 26, pp. 1080-1095.
>Manzo, K. 2012. Geopolitical visions of climate change cartoons. Political
>Geography 31, pp. 481-494.
>Mayo, C. 2008. Being in on the joke: pedagogy, race, humor. Philosophy of
>Education 2008, pp. 244-252
>Mehta, H.C. 2012. Fighting, negotiating, laughing: the use of humor in the
>Vietnam War. The Historian
>Nickels, C.C. 2010. Civil War Humor. Jackson, MS: University Press of
>Mississippi.
>Richards, C. 2014. Wit at war: the poetry of John Wilmot and the trauma of
>war. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 27(1), pp. 25-54.
>Ridanpää, J. 2014a. Geographical studies of humor. Geography Compass 8(10),
>pp. 701-709.
>---. 2014b. Seriously serious political spaces of humor. ACME. 13(3), pp. 450-
>456.
>Routledge, P. 2012. Sensuous solidarities: emotion, politics and performace in
>the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army. Antipode 44(2), pp. 428-452.
>Swart, S. 2009. “The terrible laughter of the Afrikaner” – towards a social
>history of humor. Journal of Social History. Pp. 889-917
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date:    Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:27:12 -0500
>From:    Kai Bosworth <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: AAG 2017 CFP: Populism, Democracy, and Expertise in Technological
>Worlds
>
>*AAG 2017 CFP: Populism, Democracy, and Expertise in Technological Worlds*
>Organizers:
>Kai Bosworth, University of Minnesota
>Laura Cesafsky, University of Minnesota
>
>Liberal and radical geographers and political theorists alike discount
>populist movements, right and left, for political commitments deemed too
>irrational, too contradictory, or too general. Populist movements, it is
>argued, bury difference and exclusion beneath imaginations of a singular
>and unified ‘people’. The feeling is mutual: for their part, ‘peoples’ the
>world over seem increasingly incredulous of the experts and intellectuals
>who claim to be officers of their interests. These too-easy dismissals of
>the people or the elite fail to grapple with key problematics at the heart
>of mass politics as a critical, conjunctural and proliferating reaction to
>the concentration of power and expertise in contemporary societies: Why
>populism now? How might our technologically saturated lifeworlds compel
>populist movements by mediating communication, or by allowing peoples to
>realize themselves via technological imaginaries or collective reactions
>against perceived technological harms? What is the legitimate place of
>knowledge and expertise in the governance of democratic societies? Must we
>as critical geographers limit ourselves to “deconstructing the inevitable
>hierarchies and exceptions without which no people has ever been capable of
>constituting itself” (Bosteels 2013, p. 3), or can we affirm the
>articulation of peoples as a fraught but necessary step in the march toward
>democracy and justice?
>
>We suspect that geographers have much to say about the spatial,
>technological, and environmental aspects of contemporary populist
>movements, from Latin American leftisms to Syriza and Podemos, from the
>candidacies of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, to eco-populism to
>resurgent nationalist movements. Debates about populist movements in
>geography are few, but have tended to critically analyze the constitution
>of political identity, especially through a desire for a nationalist
>cohesion (e.g., Hart 2013). By contrast, Swyngedouw’s work on ‘climate
>populism’ (2010) provides an important - if limited - departure point for
>understanding the fraught relationship between popular politics and science
>and expertise. We seek to reignite this conversation by inviting papers
>that critically investigate the conditions, limitations, and possibilities
>of populism, especially as seen through, alongside, and as the politics of
>technology and expertise.
>
>
>Possible paper topics include but are not limited to:
>
>Fear of elites, especially scientists, engineers, and planners
>Masses, crowds, peoples, publics and parties as figures of the popular
>Infrastructure, development, and technology
>Eco-populism (“neither left nor right but forward”)
>Populism and socialism
>Right-wing and nationalist populist movements
>Political organizing and the internet
>Public participation and direct democracy
>The “tradition” of populism in Latin America
>Popular decolonization movements
>Populist anti-intellectualism
>
>
>We invite interested participants to send their title and 300-word abstract
>to Laura Cesafsky ([log in to unmask]) and Kai Bosworth
>([log in to unmask])
>by October 15th.
>
>
>Relevant references:
>
>Bosteels, Bruno. 2013. “Introduction.” In *What Is a People?* New York:
>Columbia University Press.
>Dean, Jodi. 2009. *Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies*:
>Communicative
>Capitalism and Left Politics. Durham: Duke University Press.
>———. 2016. *Crowds and Party*. Brooklyn, NY: Verso.
>Dewey, John. *The Public and Its Problems*. Athens: Swallow Press, 1927.
>Fischer, Frank. *Citizens, Experts, and the Environment: The Politics of
>Local Knowledge*. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
>Hart, Gillian. *Rethinking the South African Crisis: Nationalism, Populism,
>Hegemony*. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2013.
>Laclau, Ernesto. *On Populist Reason*. London: Verso, 2005.
>———. “Why Constructing a People Is the Main Task of Radical Politics.”
>Critical Inquiry 32:4 (2006): 646–80.
>Mann, Geoff. 2013. “Who’s Afraid of Democracy?” Capitalism Nature Socialism
>24 (1): 42–48.
>Swyngedouw, Erik. “Apocalypse Forever? Post-Political Populism and the
>Spectre of Climate Change.” Theory, Culture & Society 27:2–3 (2010):
>213–232.
>Swyngedouw, Erik, and Japhy Wilson, eds. *The Post-Political and Its
>Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticization, Spectres of Radical Politics*.
>Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
>Whatmore, Sarah J. “Mapping Knowledge Controversies: Science, Democracy
>and
>the Redistribution of Expertise.” Progress in Human Geography 33:5 (2009):
>587–98.
>Žižek, Slavoj. “Against the Populist Temptation.” Critical Inquiry 32:2
>(2006): 551–574.
>
>
>
>--
>Kai Bosworth
>Ph.D. candidate
>Department of Geography, Environment and Society
>University of Minnesota
>414 Social Sciences
>267 19th Ave S.
>Minneapolis, MN 55455
>(605) 645-7071
>http://kaibosworth.weebly.com/
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date:    Mon, 19 Sep 2016 10:56:42 -0700
>From:    Brian Dowd-Uribe <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Job at Univ. of San Francisco
>
>Hi All-
>
>The University of San Francisco’s Environmental Studies Department is
>hiring a social scientist. Geographers are encourage to apply! For more
>info about the position please see this link. Please circulate widely and
>apologies for cross postings!
>
>https://chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000328426-01
>
>
>All best,
>
>Brian
>
>--
>Brian Dowd-Uribe
>Assistant Professor, International Studies Department
>University of San Francisco
>@ <http://www.upeace.org/>bdowduribe
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date:    Mon, 19 Sep 2016 11:12:24 -0700
>From:    Shangrila Joshi <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Food Justice / Policy position at The Evergreen State College
>
>Colleagues,
>
>The Evergreen State College seeks a broadly trained social scientist or
>historian with expertise in sustainable food systems, food policy, and food
>justice. Applicants must be able to teach topics related to food
>sovereignty and food security through the lens of food/agricultural policy,
>economics and history, including within regular repeating programs
>such as *Ecological
>Agriculture* and *Food, Health & Sustainability*. In addition, the
>successful candidate must have experience in community food advocacy at
>the
>local, regional and/or global level, and experience working with diverse
>and underrepresented populations.
>
>Faculty at Evergreen are expected to teach undergraduates at all levels.
>Applicants should demonstrate commitment to developing interdisciplinary
>curricula with faculty colleagues and in helping undergraduates develop the
>capacity to link theory to practice in and out of the classroom.
>Evergreen's curricular structure facilitates project-based undergraduate
>research, as well as internships with public and private organizations,
>including local and state agencies and tribes. The preferred candidate
>would have experience in pursuing innovative teaching practices, including
>experience supporting project-based undergraduate research and a desire to
>support and develop internship opportunities in collaboration with the Center
>for Community-Based Learning and Action
><http://www.evergreen.edu/communitybasedlearning/>.
>For more details about the program, see:
>
>http://evergreen.edu/facultyhiring/jobs/FoodJustice-17.htm
>
>Please feel free to circulate this announcement within your networks.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Shangrila Joshi Wynn, Ph.D.
>Member of the Faculty
>The Evergreen State College
>2700 Evergreen Parkway NW
>Olympia, Washington 98505
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date:    Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:21:10 +0100
>From:    Kelly Kay <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: AAG CFP: Financializing Rural Geographies
>
>CFP AAG 2017: American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston,
>MA, April 5-9
>Financializing Rural Geographies
>
>Organizers:
>Miles Kenney-Lazar (Clark University)
>Kelly Kay (London School of Economics)
>
>Financialization – commonly understood as “a pattern of accumulation in
>which profits accrue primarily through financial channels rather than through
>trade and commodity production” (Krippner 2005: 174) – has become an
>important theme for urban and economic geographers, particularly since the
>2008 financial crash (Pike and Pollard 2010, French et al. 2011, Christophers
>2015). Nature-society geographers have also increasingly studied the ways in
>nature becomes enrolled in processes of financialized capital accumulation,
>with regard to agriculture and food provisioning (Isakson 2014), the purchasing
>and leasing of rural lands (Fairbairn 2014, Ouma 2016), the extraction and
>production of oil (Labban 2010), conservation (Sullivan 2013), and carbon
>offsets (Knox-Hayes 2013).
>
>Despite increasing recognition of the role that finance plays in nature-society
>relations under capitalism, there has been less examination of how finance
>actually interacts with rural geographies, particularly rural lands and resources.
>Scholars in rural geography have written extensively about how changes to
>the global economy have led to diverse forms of rural restructuring across the
>Global North, altering rural economies, communities, identities, and
>livelihoods. This work has largely overlooked finance, focusing instead on rural
>gentrification and amenity migration (Darling 2005, Walker and Fortmann
>2003), changing markets and discourses surrounding agriculture (McDonagh
>2013, Marsden 2013), and post-productivism and the growth of rural
>economies based on tourism and environmental conservation (McAreavy and
>McDonagh 2011, Che 2006). Similarly, much research has examined the politics
>of displacement and dispossession in the Global South related to “global land
>grabbing” (Borras et al. 2011, Wolford et al. 2013). Yet, apart from a few
>notable exceptions (e.g. Fairbairn 2014, Ouma 2016), much of this work has
>not engaged with the role that financial institutions, such as pension funds,
>hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds, have played in bankrolling or
>directly acquiring land.
>
>In this session, we seek contributions that investigate how finance is engaging
>with, transforming, and seeking to accumulate capital from rural geographies
>and environments. We are particularly interested in work that examines
>financial interactions with rural land and resources. We invite theoretically
>innovative and empirically driven papers that examine a wide range of themes
>concerning how rural spaces are financialized, across both the Global South
>and North. These themes include, but are not limited to:
>-The role of finance in generating dispossession in rural areas
>-How capital is actually accumulated in rural spaces via financial channels
>-The relationships between financialization, property, and rent in rural places
>-The ways in which financialization of rural geographies leads to industrial
>restructuring and to changing work and livelihood opportunities
>-The racial, ethnic, and gendered dimensions of financialized rural geographies
>-The politics of contesting the financialization of rural geographies
>
>If interested in participating in this session, please send your paper abstract to
>Miles Kenney-Lazar ([log in to unmask]) and Kelly Kay
>([log in to unmask]) by October 10, 2016. We will notify participants by October
>13, 2016.
>
>References
>Borras, S.M., R. Hall, I. Scoones, B. White, and W. Wolford. 2011. Towards a
>better understanding of global land grabbing: An editorial introduction. The
>Journal of Peasant Studies, 38(2): 209–216.
>Che, D. 2006. Developing ecotourism in First World, resource-dependent
>areas. Geoforum, 37(2): 212–226.
>Christophers, B. 2015. The limits to financialization. Dialogues in Human
>Geography, 5(2): 183–200.
>Darling, E. 2005. The city in the country: wilderness gentrification and the rent
>gap. Environment and Planning A, 37(6): 1015–1032.
>Fairbairn, M. 2014. ‘Like gold with yield’: Evolving intersections between
>farmland and finance. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 41(5): 777–795.
>French, S., A. Leyshon, and T. Wainwright. 2011. Financializing space, spacing
>financialization. Progress in Human Geography, 35(6): 798–819.
>Isakson, S.R. 2014. Food and finance: The financial transformation of agro-
>food supply chains. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 41(5): 749–775.
>Krippner, G.R. 2005. The financialization of the American economy. Socio-
>Economic Review, 3: 173–208.
>Labban, M. 2010. Oil in parallax: Scarcity, markets, and the financialization of
>accumulation. Geoforum, 41(4): 541–552.
>Marsden, T. 2013. From post-productionism to reflexive governance:
>Contested transitions in securing more sustainable food futures. Journal of
>Rural Studies, 29: 123–134.
>McAreavey, R., & McDonagh, J. 2011. Sustainable rural tourism: Lessons for
>rural development. Sociologia ruralis, 51(2): 175–194.
>McDonagh, J. 2013. Rural geography I: Changing expectations and
>contradictions in the rural. Progress in Human Geography 37(5): 712–720.
>Ouma, S. 2016. From Financialization to Operations of Capital: Historicizing and
>Disentangling the Finance-Farmland Nexus. Geoforum, 72: 82–93.
>Pike, A. and J. Pollard. 2010. Economic Geographies of Financialization.
>Economic Geography, 86(1): 29–51.
>Walker, P.A., & Fortmann, L. 2003. Whose landscape? A political ecology of the
>‘exurban’ Sierra. cultural geographies, 10(4): 469–491.
>Wolford, W., S.M. Borras, R. Hall, I. Scoones, and B. White. 2013. Governing
>global land deals: The role of the state in the rush for land. Development and
>Change, 44(2): 189–210.
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date:    Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:31:32 +0000
>From:    Emily Gilbert <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: AAG 2017 CFP: Reparations, Restitution, Reconciliation?
>
>
>CFP: Reparations, Restitution, Reconciliation?
>
>AAG, Boston, April 5-9, 2017
>
>
>Ta-Nehisi Coates’s article, “The Case for Reparations” (The Atlantic, June
>2014), has reignited demands for restitution for the “multi-century plunder of
>black people in America,” who have faced economic dispossession not only
>because of the ongoing legacy of slavery but other legal and extra-legal racist
>practices such as redlining, block-busting, incarceration, employment
>insurance, and GI Bill benefits. Since then, Black Lives Matter has also taken up
>“reparations for past and continuing harms” as one of its core demands, to
>remedy the poverty gap that they identify as arising from colonialism, slavery,
>redlining, mass incarceration and surveillance.
>
>The demands for reparations by groups who have been marginalized,
>oppressed and subject to social, political and economic violence, stands in
>stark contrast with how money has been disbursed by governments and/or
>corporations as part of reconciliation proceedings or legal actions. Too often,
>money is used as a tool to silence dissent, and to sidestep accountability. For
>example, as part of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, monies
>have been allocated to all survivors of Indian Residential Schools, with
>additional monies for those who suffered the most egregious forms of abuse.
>But only a paltry $2 million has been allocated for the 31,000 claims already
>decided. With respect to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, BP set up a
>$20 billion trust to make reparations. But payments were so slow, that federal,
>state and local claimants had to turn to a class action suit to access funds. In
>neither of these cases has reparations led to the kind of transformative
>change envisioned by Coates.
>
>This session will explore both the potential and pitfalls of putting a price on
>dispossession, violence and harm. In particular, papers are encouraged that
>consider the forms of social justice that are made possible or problematic by
>different forms of monetary compensation. This might include critiques of
>compensation practices that have already been enacted, or reflections on
>future opportunities. Examples from sites around the world are encouraged.
>Among the questions to be addressed are: What are the political stakes of
>reparations? What does it mean to put a price on social and political violence?
>How do monetary payments sit alongside other forms of redress? What kinds
>of violence are made visible, and what kinds are rendered invisible? What
>kinds of processes would be required to enact more equitable forms of
>redistribution? How can reparations be imagined anew? Papers are welcomed
>on any forms of reparation or compensation, including, but not limited to,
>colonialism, slavery, environmental damage, war, and terrorism.
>
>Registration for the AAG and the submission of abstracts (of no more than 250
>words) will be required by October 20, 2016. But, to better plan for the
>session, I encourage expressions of interest as soon as possible, and by
>October 15th at the latest, at
>[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]ca>
>
><mailto:Emily.gilbert@utoronto.ca>
>
>Emily Gilbert, Associate Professor
>Canadian Studies Program and Graduate Program in Geography
>
>University College, 15 King's College Circle
>University of Toronto
>Toronto, ON M5S 3H7 Canada
>tel (416) 978 0751
>http://individual.utoronto.ca/emilygilbert/
>
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>
>End of CRIT-GEOG-FORUM Digest - 18 Sep 2016 to 19 Sep 2016 (#2016-259)
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Date:    Tue, 20 Sep 2016 16:21:31 +0000
From:    "White, Richard" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Sheffield Hallam Univ. Guest Lecture: Professor P. Wood on "The Invisible and The Impossible: Activism and Citizenship in the 21st-century City"

Dear all,

I just wanted to draw your attention to Professor Patricia Wood's forthcoming Guest Lecture at Sheffield Hallam University next month.

It would be great to see you if you could make it. Details below.

Best

Richard

The Invisible and The Impossible:
Activism and Citizenship in the 21st-century City


Sheffield Hallam University

Department of the Natural & Built Environment (DNBE)

International Guest Speaker



Tuesday October 18th 6pm - 7pm.

City Campus, Owen-527, Peak Lecture Theatre

Speaker
Patricia Burke Wood
Professor in Human Geography,
York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Abstract
Why didn't Chomsky and Zizek come to a Slut Walk and announce the Revolution?

For many, the occupations of 2010-11, from Spain to Tahrir Square to Occupy Wall Street, were the start of a new and authentic politics that was finally going to confront neoliberal governments and corporations over their role in the global financial crisis and the austerity programs that followed. Marxian political economy approaches to the city and to urban radical politics continue to perpetuate a model of activism comprised of mass mobilization and organized social movements. I challenge both this kind of understanding of the occupations and the underlying assumptions of what constitutes activism and resistance.

Drawing on the work of Lauren Berlant, Cathy Cohen, Audrey Wollen, Johanna Hedva and Davina Cooper, I offer a critical urban theory of politics and citizenship that is grounded in the city as it is inhabited, particularly the lived realities of invisible people who want the impossible. This approach recognizes the double-edged sword of oppression and emancipation that the city offers marginalized, individuals and communities and emphasizes the need for an intersectional approach in which diversity does not merely make radical politics more inclusive, but actively disempowers hierarchies. This politics starts with a rational, emotional and embodied urban citizen, and produces a conception of politics and justice that embraces a wider range of acts of resistance and creative transformation. It also recognizes the "impossibility" of certain forms of politics and the necessity of invisible acts. Far from being trivial or not even "real politics," these acts of citizenship are a form of constitutionalism. This theory is more anarchist than Marxian in its temporal and spatial frames and is intended to complement, without replacing, more narrow political economy approaches to the city.
Biography

Patricia Wood is a Professor of Geography at the York University in Toronto, Canada. She conducts interdisciplinary research into citizenship, identity, and place, working with communities whose practices and aspirations have brought them into conflict with other communities and the state. Patricia has just completed a book on activism and the city, and co-edited two Special Issues in Activism With(out) Organisation, which have just been published by the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy.



Additional information



This event is free and open to all. For further information, please contact Dr. Richard White ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> / 0114 225 2899).

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Dr. Richard J White
Reader in Human Geography
The Department of Natural & Built Environment
Sheffield Hallam University
City Campus, Howard Street
Sheffield
S1 1WB

0114 2252899
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Staff profile and other relevant links below:
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[Twitter icon]<https://twitter.com/DrRichardJWhite> [https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-1/p160x160/10599404_10152685353198588_9012654463511143624_n.png?oh=9af0c6fbabed1999b4267fb51ae276be&oe=556A5EFD&__gda__=1432735877_3e997939ed71479f10f2c90c93e1f62e] <https://shu.academia.edu/RichardWhite>   [https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000567394141/408358defcf4e39dcd8180710545233a_400x400.png] <http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard_White18> [https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ1lwHgc-H-UJ4kFKxUQbOddSn1vZIiP2M3kWZyP-KAsth33VSlfg] <https://richardjwhite.wordpress.com/>
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Some recent publications

Papers
White RJ and Wood, P. (2016) 'Editorial: Protest and Activism without Organisation'. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy link<http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/ijssp/36/9%2F10>
White, RJ and Williams CC (2016) 'Beyond capitalocentricism: are non-capitalist work practices "alternatives"?' AREA link <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/area.12264/abstract>
White, RJ and Williams, CC. (2014) 'Anarchist economic practices in a "capitalist" society: some implications for organisation and the future of work'. Ephemera: theory and politics in organization. 14 (4) pp. 951-975 link<http://www.ephemerajournal.org/authors/richard-j-white>

Book chapters
White, RJ (2015) 'Following in the footsteps of Elisee Reclus: disturbing places of inter-species violence that are hidden in plain sight' in AJ Nocella, RJ White and E. Cudworth (ed) Anarchism and Animal Liberation link</https:/books.google.co.uk/books?id=m4IwCgAAQBAJ&dq=anarchism+and+animal+liberation+mcfarland&source=gbs_navlinks_s>
White, RJ (2015) 'Animal geographies, anarchist praxis, and critical animal studies'. In K. Gillespie and R-C. Collard (ed) Critical Animal Geographies: politics, intersections, and hierarchies in a multispecies world. link<http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9781138791503/>

Edited Volumes
The 'Anarchism, Geography and the Spirit of Revolt' Trilogy (with Simon Springer and Marcelo Lopez de Souza)
[https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0BxlpUikPbirlQmUweDE3YnVILUk&revid=0BxlpUikPbirlTkNvRmpsZGVDa0ZBbDd2dmZtZVZud3Z4VndnPQ][https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0BxlpUikPbirlRUVyc09SOG9jbUE&revid=0BxlpUikPbirlU3ZhdGtJT1M4YngwZ0xHNTBRc0l5cHFncU5jPQ][https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0BxlpUikPbirleTNxVTFkSGlHMFk&revid=0BxlpUikPbirlQTdwY1lUK1p3K2Rxb0dZbFg2b3lCZVFBQ2hZPQ]
The Radicalization of Pedagogy Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. link<http://www.rowmaninternational.com/books/the-radicalization-of-pedagogy>
Theories of Resistance Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. link<http://www.rowmaninternational.com/books/theories-of-resistance>
The Practice of Freedom Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. link<http://www.rowmaninternational.com/books/the-practice-of-freedom>

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Date:    Tue, 20 Sep 2016 13:08:22 -0400
From:    Hillary Shaw <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Food as a weapon: from Ivan the Terrible to McDonalds.


 Q. What do 1) Ivan the Terrible, 2) Earl Butz (US President Nixon's agricultural secretary), 3) Business Insider, and 4) McDonalds, all have in common?

A.  They all have a (sort of) agreement on food as political weapon, see quotes,  top of http://fooddeserts.org/images/000Food.htm


Dr Hillary J. Shaw
 Director and Senior Research Consultant
Shaw Food Solutions
Newport
Shropshire
TF10 8QE
www.fooddeserts.org


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Date:    Tue, 20 Sep 2016 19:05:38 +0100
From:    Donald Leffers <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP AAG 2017 Interrogating land, property, and land use: Investment, conflict, and politics

Call for Papers: AAG 2017, Boston, Mass., April 5-9

AAG Paper Session: Interrogating land, property, and land use: Investment, conflict, and politics

The recent 'global rush' on land challenges existing ownership, property relations, and uses of land. Multiple forms of land use change and related governance include large-scale investments in agricultural lands and pressures placed on lands by housing demand. In the global north, land use changes in rural and peri-urban areas are highly publicized political processes affected by the changing role of governance and the state, hegemonic valourization of economic growth, the investment of global funds in farmlands, tensions between use and exchange value of property, and competing constructions of land, property, place, and nature. In this context, there is new attention to land investors, land developers, and different types of land owners as these relate to land use policies.

Conflicts over the use of land and conversion of land uses in exurban and rural areas are flashpoints over farmland protection, nature conservation, resource extraction, siting of waste disposal, wind farms, infrastructure, water, indigenous land claims and urban development. New forms of investment and financialization of land are challenging existing uses of land. More longstanding investments in and transformation of land by property developers continue to be contested, especially by opponents to urban sprawl and advocates for near urban agriculture. Alternative conceptions of land beyond its commodity form underpin popular resistance at various scales, including grassroots movements and political and strategic engagement with state and related institutions.

New regulatory and governance frameworks seek to address alternate claims to land and property. Land use planning regulates conflicting interests over land and often plays a mediating role. Competing discursive strategies vie to shape the form and content of policies. In some places, this has resulted in alternative and innovative policy processes and policy implementation. There is new attention to the regulation of land investors, and different types of land owners as government agencies at different scales confront land and property issues that fall outside the purview of traditional land use planning systems.

We seek  papers  on property, land, and land use in peri-urban and rural areas of the global north that develop a broader understanding and critical reflection beyond site-specific or sectoral case study analyses to address cross-cutting theoretical and policy frameworks.  These will address three broad themes:

 (1) 'Interrogating land and property' will focus on new theoretical interventions that critically examine the narratives, practices and politics of property, land, and land use from a range of theoretical perspectives, including political ecology, political economy, institutionalism, socio-legal studies,  indigenous studies, feminist theory, and critical planning theory. What are the implications of changing relations of property that call into question traditional ownership patterns and land tenure? Are there racialized and gendered patterns of property ownership and control? How are alternative narratives of land and property developed and communicated? Are there new legal frameworks that address changing relations of land and property?

(2) 'Land grabbing in the global north' will specifically rethink the concept and practice of land grabbing or large scale land assemblies, especially in the context of recent land investments in North America and other regions of the global north. Possible topics might address, amongst others, land assembly practices, land banking, large-scale investment in farmland, financialization of land by pension funds, sovereign funds, or hedge funds, and land use conversions. How do different forms of state power shape access to land and rights?  What is the mediating role of regulatory frameworks, governance and institutions in shaping land deals?  Are there new forms of access to land and what are the responses of farmers, leasors, and surrounding communities to corporate investments? What are the interconnections between biophysical landscapes and the political economies of development?

(3) 'Land conflicts' will showcase theoretically-informed case studies that illuminate competing actors and interests over land and land-based resources. Papers might examine commonalities across sites and issues, or interrogate the role of land use planning in initiating land conflict, resolution, and its place within larger institutional frameworks. Other possibilities include: a systematic examination of land conflicts within a framework of ‘networked' governance or the post-political; investigations of the role of  legal framework and bureaucratic structures in regulating land use and access; the practice of collaborative planning in land conflicts; cross-scalar or multi-sectoral dimensions of conflicts; forms of collaboration within land conflicts among state, industry and social movement actors; coalition building over land conflicts; environmental politics of land use and change; and Indigenous claims and challenges to land and property.


Please submit a 250 word abstract by October 15, 2016 to Gerda Wekerle ([log in to unmask]), Faculty of Environmental Studies, and Donald Leffers ([log in to unmask]).

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Date:    Tue, 20 Sep 2016 19:31:50 +0100
From:    "Beth W. Kamunge" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: bibliography- culinary appropriation

Dear all,

I am compiling a new bibliography of books and peer-reviewed journal
articles this time on the theme of *culinary appropriation.*

You can view past compilations here:

'Feminist food studies':
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wONTx8ossyPJ3QTX-QIhXJqY
eCTuX0WLGdwHLCVLsbI/edit?usp=sharing

'local' food:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tcSywM8vTbJsSHUE7kAN6LZX
VbxWL2I5JCnQW69XZP8/edit?usp=sharing

Best,

Beth Wangari Kamunge,
Doctoral Researcher: Black-feminist food politics,
Department of Geography at The University of Sheffield.

Co-founder (October 2014) and facilitator (Sep 2015-present) of the
Geographies of Food Reading Group- The University of Sheffield. /Committee
member (January 2015- present) Critical Race and Ethnicity Network.

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Date:    Tue, 20 Sep 2016 21:33:03 +0200
From:    Henrik Ernstson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CfP AAG2017: "Emancipatory Horizons of an Urban Century" (Ernstson & Swyngedouw)

Apologies for cross-posting!
/Henrik

Call for Papers AAG2017

American Association of Geographers (AAG), Boston, April 5-9, 2017

Emancipatory Horizons of an Urban Century

Session conveners:

Henrik Ernstson (KTH and University of Cape Town) and Erik Swyngedouw (University of Manchester)

Abstract. With the rise of planetary and uneven urbanization at the turn of the 21st century, there are real challenges on how to articulate anew the relationship between emancipatory theory and political activism. Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has grown rapidly over 20 years and the field has expanded and been challenged constructively by a wide range of scholars, from feminism, anarchism, critical race studies, more-than-human and posthumanist perspectives, postcolonial studies, decolonization scholars and global South urbanism (see e.g. Keil 2003; Keil 2005; Heynen 2014; Kaika and Swyngedouw 2011; Ince 2012; Harcourt and Nelson 2015; Hinchliffe and Whatmore 2006; Lawhon, Silver, and Ernstson 2013). Through this, UPE has asserted itself as a key mode of critical enquiry in a world shot through by deepening socio-ecological crises, accelerating urbanization, late capitalist crises, and new forms of depoliticization, neo-colonization and neo-imperialism.

However, the field is also in crisis, and it shares this with critical and radical theory more generally. While we have improved our ability to trace sociomaterial flows and ’quasi-objects’ like water, waste and food; explored how financial capital operates across scales; developed situated feminist and postcolonial accounts on the re-politicization of urban environments; traced how economic crises unravel social cohesion and wreck ecological havoc; and just how unequal and unsustainable the world has become, we have less to offer in terms of what to do, in terms of thinking with radical political activists about new political imaginaries, forms of political organizing, and practices of socio-ecological change, which, as we know, are urgently needed.

This session revolves around this task: What could or even should emancipatory politics be about in our times?

We see two main sources of inspiration that we hope can help to structure this session. First, and with a focus on activist practices: What can be learnt from recent (urban) insurgencies that stretch from the Arabic Spring, Occupy Movement, #RhodesMustFall, #BlackLivesMatter to many more, including Kurdish anti-patriarchical modes of governing liberated cities in Syria and Iraq, anarchist pre-figurative movements, radical slum-dwellers organizations, efforts of commoning, zero-growth or de-growth, the return of the commune and many more. What might link such efforts together, in spite of their differences, in terms of emancipation and how they handle key notions within UPE such as sociomateriality, hybridity, cyborgs, metabolism, and ‘the urban’ as a space of re/depoliticization? Second, and now with a focus on political theory: What can be learnt by rubbing political theory with and against political ecology’s interest in materiality/sociomateriality? What, for example, do post-foundational writers like Jacques Rancière, Chantal Mouffe and Alain Badiou bring in terms of helping us to re-politicize environments? How can these thinkers—and other political philosophers—be placed in relation to UPE’s idea of sociomateriality? What to make of ‘vibrant matters’ (J. Bennet 2010) and ‘parliaments of things’ (B. Latour) in relation to a strict notion of equality and freedom from oppression? And on what terms could there exist more-than-human political moments (Booth and Williams 2014; Àvila and Ernstson, n.d.)?

This session seeks contributions that can speak to the challenges on how to organize anew the articulation between emancipatory theory and political activism and that can translate and link across cultural, regional and species differences. The idea is to move beyond ‘the urban’ to foreground ‘the political’ in and through the ecological/sociomaterial. We are hoping to receive contributions not only from critical and human geographers and urban studies folks, but also from anthropologists, critical sociologists, decoloniality scholars, radical race scholars, more-than-human thinkers, political theorists and others committed to emancipation through socioecological transformations and movements.

Possible topics include reflections, research and activisms around:

·      The active construction of new forms of emancipatory collectivities (human and more-than-human).

·      The formation of new liberating geographies of justice and socioecological movements that are translating across cultural and regional contexts, across North and South, East and West, and beyond.

·      How divides of class, race, place, nonhuman etc. are negotiated and possibly made to strengthen emancipatory potentials.

·      How the situatedness of all action/knowledge can connect with but also challenge ‘the planetary’ scale of our predicament.

·      How the vehicles of emancipatory transformation are changing. For instance, if ‘the party’—as vanguard or mass party; as socialist or communist; or ‘green’—was the (failed) political vehicle of transformation in the 20th century, what is the political vehicle for socioecological equality today?

·      How to organize the struggles for the equality of all.

Contacts: If you would like to participate and contribute a conference paper, or possibly contribute in some other non-traditional format, please send an outline of your ideas (250 words) to Henrik Ernstson ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by Friday 21 October 2016. Mark the subject line “UPE@AAG2017”. Also, if you would like to participate in other ways, for instance as a discussant, please feel free to contact us as well. We look forward to connecting with you.

Please note: Once you have submitted an abstract to us and it is accepted, you will also need to register (and pay the AAG fees), AND then also submit an abstract on the AAG website. The AAG abstract deadline is 27 October 2016 at this link: http://www.aag.org/cs/http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/how_to_submit_an_abstract <http://www.aag.org/cs/http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/how_to_submit_an_abstract>
The session will combine submitted contributions with authors of chapters that is part of an upcoming book by the conveners called Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-ob(S)cene: Political Interruptions and Possibilities (Ernstson and Swyngedouw, eds. forthcoming at Routledge).

References (selection)

Àvila, Martìn, and Henrik Ernstson. n.d. “Realms of Exposure: A Speculative Design Perspective of Material Agency and Political Ecology.” In Grounding Urban Natures: Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies, edited by Henrik Ernstson and Sverker Sörlin.

Bennet, Jane. 2010. Vibrant Matter.

Booth, Kate, and Stewart Williams. 2014. “A More-than-Human Political Moment (and Other Natural Catastrophes).” Space and Polity 18 (2): 182–95. doi:10.1080/13562576.2014.884313.

Ernstson, Henrik, and Erik Swyngedouw, eds. n.d. Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-ob(S)cene: Political Interruptions and Possibilities. Oxford: Routledge.

Harcourt, Wendy, and Ingrid L Nelson, eds. 2015. Practising Feminist Political Ecologies. London: Zed Books.

Heynen, N. 2014. “Urban Political Ecology I: The Urban Century.” Progress in Human Geography 38 (4): 598–604. doi:10.1177/0309132513500443.

Hinchliffe, Steve, and Sarah Whatmore. 2006. “Living Cities: Towards a Politics of Conviviality.” Science as Culture 15 (2): 123–38.

Ince, Anthony. 2012. “In the Shell of the Old: Anarchist Geographies of Territorialisation.” Antipode 44 (5): 1645–66. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01029.x.

Kaika, Maria, and Erik Swyngedouw. 2011. “The Urbanization of Nature: Great Promises, Impasse, and New Beginnings.” In Blackwell Companion to Cities, 96–107. Blackwell Publishing.

Keil, Roger. 2003. “Urban Political Ecology No 1.” Urban Geography 24 (8): 723–38. doi:10.2747/0272-3638.24.8.723.

———. 2005. “Progress Report—Urban Political Ecology.” Urban Geography 26 (7): 640–51. doi:10.2747/0272-3638.26.7.640.

Lawhon, Mary, Jonathan Silver, and Henrik Ernstson. 2013. “Politicizing Urban Ecologies: Traveling Theory as a Postcolonial Sensibility in African Cities.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.





Henrik Ernstson (PhD) @rhizomia
KTH Environmental Humanities <http://bit.ly/KTH-EnvHum>, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Research Fellow, MAW Foundation)
African Centre for Cities <http://www.africancentreforcities.net/>, University of Cape Town (Visiting Scholar, Principal Investigator)
Mobile: (SA) +27 82 9666 554; Work (SA): +27 21 6503386; (SWE) +46 70 044 8204 :: Blog: http://www.rhizomia.net <http://www.rhizomia.net/> :: Projects: http://www.situatedecologies.net <http://www.situatedecologies.net/> :: Academic https://kth.academia.edu/HenrikErnstson <https://kth.academia.edu/HenrikErnstson>

*Film* Upcoming film “One Table Two Elephants” <http://www.situatedecologies.net/archives/1562> on knowledge, race, nature and the postcolonial city (5 min ’teaser’ here <http://www.situatedecologies.net/archives/1562>.)

*Recent publications (selection)* In Landscape and Urban Planning - ‘Of Plants, High Lines and Horses... on value articulation as sociomaterial practice <http://bit.ly/2c6qZrU>' (2017); In Regional Studies - 'Unlearning (Un)located Ideas in the Provincialization of Urban Theory' <http://bit.ly/28UXEjK> (2016); In Regional Studies - 'Conceptual Vectors of African Urbanism' <http://bit.ly/1iG6SMN> (2014); In Antipode - 'Provincializing Urban Political Ecology—Towards a Situated UPE through African Urbanism <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.12051/abstract>' (2014); All publications here <https://kth.academia.edu/HenrikErnstson>.

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Date:    Tue, 20 Sep 2016 20:41:43 +0100
From:    Andy Zieleniec <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: CfP AAG2017: "Emancipatory Horizons of an Urban Century" (Ernstson & Swyngedouw)

Dear All
Much as I would love to contribute and participate in many of the
interesting sessions and strands within the AAG I won't be.

There are questions of cost, accessibility, time and visas that mean that
some of us are excluded from these events.

Perhaps the AAG as the premier networking event for academic geography
might recognise that from some prospective it is an exclusive and elitist
club

Best wishes to all who are attending
Good luck to those who are not

Dr Andrzej Zieleniec
Academic Lead and Programme Director for Liberal Arts
Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences
School of Social Science and Public Policy
Keele University
CBC0.29 Chancellors Building
tel: 01782 733362

On 20 Sep 2016 20:34, "Henrik Ernstson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Apologies for cross-posting!
> /Henrik
>
> *Call for Papers AAG2017*
>
> American Association of Geographers (AAG), Boston, April 5-9, 2017
>
> *Emancipatory Horizons of an Urban Century*
>
> Session conveners:
>
> *Henrik Ernstson* (KTH and University of Cape Town) and *Erik Swyngedouw* (University
> of Manchester)
>
> *Abstract.* With the rise of planetary and uneven urbanization at the
> turn of the 21st century, there are real challenges on how to articulate
> anew the relationship between emancipatory theory and political activism.
> Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has grown rapidly over 20 years and the field
> has expanded and been challenged constructively by a wide range of
> scholars, from feminism, anarchism, critical race studies, more-than-human
> and posthumanist perspectives, postcolonial studies, decolonization
> scholars and global South urbanism (see e.g. Keil 2003; Keil 2005; Heynen
> 2014; Kaika and Swyngedouw 2011; Ince 2012; Harcourt and Nelson 2015; Hinchliffe
> and Whatmore 2006; Lawhon, Silver, and Ernstson 2013). Through this, UPE
> has asserted itself as a key mode of critical enquiry in a world shot
> through by deepening socio-ecological crises, accelerating urbanization,
> late capitalist crises, and new forms of depoliticization, neo-colonization
> and neo-imperialism.
>
> However, the field is also in crisis, and it shares this with critical and
> radical theory more generally. While we have improved our ability to trace
> sociomaterial flows and ’quasi-objects’ like water, waste and food;
> explored how financial capital operates across scales; developed situated
> feminist and postcolonial accounts on the re-politicization of urban
> environments; traced how economic crises unravel social cohesion and wreck
> ecological havoc; and just how unequal and unsustainable the world has
> become, we have less to offer in terms of what to do, in terms of thinking
> with radical political activists about new political imaginaries, forms of
> political organizing, and practices of socio-ecological change, which, as
> we know, are urgently needed.
>
> This session revolves around this task: What could or even should
> emancipatory politics be about in our times?
>
> We see two main sources of inspiration that we hope can help to structure
> this session. First, and with a focus on activist practices: What can be
> learnt from recent (urban) insurgencies that stretch from the Arabic
> Spring, Occupy Movement, #RhodesMustFall, #BlackLivesMatter to many more,
> including Kurdish anti-patriarchical modes of governing liberated cities in
> Syria and Iraq, anarchist pre-figurative movements, radical slum-dwellers
> organizations, efforts of commoning, zero-growth or de-growth, the return
> of the commune and many more. What might link such efforts together, in
> spite of their differences, in terms of emancipation and how they handle
> key notions within UPE such as sociomateriality, hybridity, cyborgs,
> metabolism, and ‘the urban’ as a space of re/depoliticization? Second, and
> now with a focus on political theory: What can be learnt by rubbing
> political theory with and against political ecology’s interest in
> materiality/sociomateriality? What, for example, do post-foundational
> writers like Jacques Rancière, Chantal Mouffe and Alain Badiou bring in
> terms of helping us to re-politicize environments? How can these
> thinkers—and other political philosophers—be placed in relation to UPE’s
> idea of sociomateriality? What to make of ‘vibrant matters’ (J. Bennet
> 2010) and ‘parliaments of things’ (B. Latour) in relation to a strict
> notion of equality and freedom from oppression? And on what terms could
> there exist more-than-human political moments (Booth and Williams 2014;
> Àvila and Ernstson, n.d.)?
>
> This session seeks contributions that can speak to the challenges on how
> to organize anew the articulation between emancipatory theory and political
> activism and that can translate and link across cultural, regional and
> species differences. The idea is to move beyond ‘the urban’ to foreground
> ‘the political’ in and through the ecological/sociomaterial. We are hoping
> to receive contributions not only from critical and human geographers and
> urban studies folks, but also from anthropologists, critical sociologists,
> decoloniality scholars, radical race scholars, more-than-human thinkers,
> political theorists and others committed to emancipation through
> socioecological transformations and movements.
>
> Possible topics include reflections, research and activisms around:
>
> ·      The active construction of new forms of emancipatory
> collectivities (human and more-than-human).
>
> ·      The formation of new liberating geographies of justice and
> socioecological movements that are translating across cultural and regional
> contexts, across North and South, East and West, and beyond.
>
> ·      How divides of class, race, place, nonhuman etc. are negotiated
> and possibly made to strengthen emancipatory potentials.
>
> ·      How the situatedness of all action/knowledge can connect with but
> also challenge ‘the planetary’ scale of our predicament.
>
> ·      How the vehicles of emancipatory transformation are changing. For
> instance, if ‘the party’—as vanguard or mass party; as socialist or
> communist; or ‘green’—was the (failed) political vehicle of transformation
> in the 20th century, what is the political vehicle for socioecological
> equality today?
>
> ·      How to organize the struggles for the equality of all.
>
> *Contacts: *If you would like to participate and contribute a conference
> paper, or possibly contribute in some other non-traditional format, please
> send an outline of your ideas (250 words) to Henrik Ernstson (
> [log in to unmask]) by Friday 21 October 2016. Mark the subject line
> “UPE@AAG2017”. Also, if you would like to participate in other ways, for
> instance as a discussant, please feel free to contact us as well. We look
> forward to connecting with you.
>
> *Please note: *Once you have submitted an abstract to us and it is
> accepted, you will also need to register (and pay the AAG fees), AND then
> also submit an abstract on the AAG website. The AAG abstract deadline is 27
> October 2016 at this link: http://www.aag.org/cs/http://www.aag.org/cs/
> annualmeeting/how_to_submit_an_abstract
>
> The session will combine submitted contributions with authors of chapters
> that is part of an upcoming book by the conveners called *Urban Political
> Ecology in the Anthropo-ob(S)cene: Political Interruptions and
> Possibilities* (Ernstson and Swyngedouw, eds. forthcoming at Routledge).
>
> *References (selection)*
>
> Àvila, Martìn, and Henrik Ernstson. n.d. “Realms of Exposure: A
> Speculative Design Perspective of Material Agency and Political Ecology.”
> In *Grounding Urban Natures: Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies*,
> edited by Henrik Ernstson and Sverker Sörlin.
>
> Bennet, Jane. 2010. *Vibrant Matter*.
>
> Booth, Kate, and Stewart Williams. 2014. “A More-than-Human Political
> Moment (and Other Natural Catastrophes).” *Space and Polity* 18 (2):
> 182–95. doi:10.1080/13562576.2014.884313.
>
> Ernstson, Henrik, and Erik Swyngedouw, eds. n.d. *Urban Political Ecology
> in the Anthropo-ob(S)cene: Political Interruptions and Possibilities*.
> Oxford: Routledge.
>
> Harcourt, Wendy, and Ingrid L Nelson, eds. 2015. *Practising Feminist
> Political Ecologies*. London: Zed Books.
>
> Heynen, N. 2014. “Urban Political Ecology I: The Urban Century.” *Progress
> in Human Geography* 38 (4): 598–604. doi:10.1177/0309132513500443.
>
> Hinchliffe, Steve, and Sarah Whatmore. 2006. “Living Cities: Towards a
> Politics of Conviviality.” *Science as Culture* 15 (2): 123–38.
>
> Ince, Anthony. 2012. “In the Shell of the Old: Anarchist Geographies of
> Territorialisation.” *Antipode* 44 (5): 1645–66.
> doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01029.x.
>
> Kaika, Maria, and Erik Swyngedouw. 2011. “The Urbanization of Nature:
> Great Promises, Impasse, and New Beginnings.” In *Blackwell Companion to
> Cities*, 96–107. Blackwell Publishing.
>
> Keil, Roger. 2003. “Urban Political Ecology No 1.” *Urban Geography* 24
> (8): 723–38. doi:10.2747/0272-3638.24.8.723.
>
> ———. 2005. “Progress Report—Urban Political Ecology.” *Urban Geography* 26
> (7): 640–51. doi:10.2747/0272-3638.26.7.640.
>
> Lawhon, Mary, Jonathan Silver, and Henrik Ernstson. 2013. “Politicizing
> Urban Ecologies: Traveling Theory as a Postcolonial Sensibility in African
> Cities.” *International Journal of Urban and Regional Research*.
>
>
>
>
> *Henrik Ernstson* (PhD) @rhizomia
> KTH Environmental Humanities <http://bit.ly/KTH-EnvHum>, KTH Royal Institute
> of Technology (Research Fellow, MAW Foundation)
> African Centre for Cities <http://www.africancentreforcities.net/>,
> University of Cape Town (Visiting Scholar, Principal Investigator)
> Mobile: (SA) +27 82 9666 554; Work (SA): +27 21 6503386; (SWE) +46 70 044
> 8204 :: Blog: http://www.rhizomia.net :: Projects: http
> ://www.situatedecologies.net :: Academic https://kth.
> academia.edu/HenrikErnstson
>
> **Film* *Upcoming film “One Table Two Elephants”
> <http://www.situatedecologies.net/archives/1562> on knowledge, race,
> nature and the postcolonial city (5 min ’teaser’ here
> <http://www.situatedecologies.net/archives/1562>.)
>
> **Recent publications (selection)* *In Landscape and Urban Planning - ‘
> *Of* Plants, High Lines and Horses... on value articulation as
> sociomaterial practice <http://bit.ly/2c6qZrU>' (2017); In Regional
> Studies - '*Unlearning (Un)located Ideas in the Provincialization of
> Urban Theory'* <http://bit.ly/28UXEjK> (2016); In Regional Studies - 'Conceptual
> Vectors of African Urbanism' <http://bit.ly/1iG6SMN> (2014); In Antipode -
>  'Provincializing Urban Political Ecology—Towards a Situated
> UPE through African Urbanism
> <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.12051/abstract>' (2014);
> All publications here <https://kth.academia.edu/HenrikErnstson>.
>
>

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Date:    Tue, 20 Sep 2016 22:13:32 +0200
From:    Nora Nafaa <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: AAG 2017 CFP : Alternative Urban Practices and Politics in Neoliberal Contexts: A Critical Approach

AAG 2017 - Boston, MA - 5th-9th April - Call For Papers



*Session title :* Alternative urban practices and politics in neoliberal
contexts : a critical approach


*Organizers :* Mikel Agirre Maskariano (UPV/EHU – UPVD/ART-Dev), Vincent
Béal (UNISTRA- SAGE), Nora Nafaa (UPVD- ART-Dev), Max Rousseau (CIRAD)



Over the last forty years, the city scale has become a privileged arena for
the deployment of the neoliberal agenda, meeting fierce changes as a result
(Sassen 2000; Morel-Journel and Pinson, forthcoming). Devoid of the
traditional support of upper public administrations to suitably carry out
their social responsibilities, due to the deregulation of public policies
and the disengagement of the state as regards social and economic
liabilities, city authorities are forced to look after themselves, shifting
their priorities from welfare provision towards economic competitiveness.
Thus, public authorities focus nowadays in the attraction of the necessary
investment and capital to foster economic development, as principal goal.
Consequently, city governance switches its previous functions, adopting an
entrepreneurial perspective, meeting devious processes of privatization of
public owned assets in compliance with the austerity paradigms imposed by
the IMF, the World Bank and other relevant international organizations
leading the global laying on of the neoliberal regime (Evans and Sewell
2013).


However, the neoliberal city has engendered dramatic urban impacts,
challenging social evenness, fostering polarization and inequality,
spawning poverty, and compromising the pillars of the welfare model. The
chained processes of creative destruction and construction inherent to the
neoliberal city have shaped the aforementioned polarization in the urban
arena, where investment favors certain locations and social groups at the
expenses of the most deprived ones (Hackworth 2007). The growing awareness
about the negative externalities of the hegemonic neoliberal approach has
propelled the emergence of alternatives throughout the entire continent,
where diverse models appear to challenge the vast social inequalities
generated by the established growth-oriented regime (Birch and Mykhnenko
2010). By "alternative", we mean the set of initiatives, projects or
strategies supported by the local authorities and that seek to redirect
urban development away from the neoliberal model. These alternative urban
policies have three main characteristics. First, they are elaborated in a
bottom-up perspective in which urban society – including the most
disadvantaged social or ethnic groups – is the driving force. Second, they
seek to establish political or "social" regulations in order to limit
"uneven development" in contemporary cities. Third, they do not seek to
attract external investments or affluent groups but to address directly the
situation of the disadvantaged groups in the city (Béal and Rousseau, 2014;
Rousseau and Béal, 2015).

In this regard, the city scale appears one more time as the main arena for
the dissemination of grass-root demands and the generation of alternative
initiatives aiming to confront the ruling neoliberal model in order to
reconquer social and environmental justice, and secure the right to the
city (Janoschka 2011).

Based on the principles of direct participation, solidarity and
collaboration, the emancipation and self-empowerment of citizenship, is
giving rise to inspiring urban alternatives to the dominant neoliberal
urban regime, tempting to grant socio-spatial justice as an inalienable
principle (Cutts and Moser 2015). Beyond that, alternative urban
development policies are heterogeneous in their objectives and in the
nature of the municipal resources they use. They may relate to various
fields such as urbanism (de-growth strategies, land trusts,
anti-gentrification or anti-speculation initiatives, etc..), local economy
(alternative local currencies or local exchange systems, worker
cooperatives, etc..), finance (“tontines”, credit unions operating at the
scale of the district or the city, etc..), environment ("transition town"
movement, free public transport initiatives, etc..), food supply (urban
agriculture, local food systems, etc..) or governance (participatory
budgeting, self-management, etc.).

*The first objective of this is to contribute to the burgeoning debates on
such “alternative” policies by bringing new case studies in the discussion
focusing on practices more than theories. The second one is to contribute
to the analysis of these urban alternatives. The session aims to do so by
bringing together communications which address at least one of the four
following topics:*

1.      Describing alternative urban development policies through empirical
case studies.

2.      Contextualizing alternative urban development policies. For
example, are they more likely to emerge in cities with specific features
(for example, peripheral or shrinking cities)?

3.      Evaluating alternative urban development policies. For example, are
such practices and policies threatened by institutionalization?

4.      Developing theoretical approaches on alternatives. Why and how
could alternative urban development policies be successfully implemented in
specific urban contexts?


Abstracts must comprise between 250-500 words, a title, and annex a maximum
of five keywords supporting the proposal.


*Please submit abstracts to **[log in to unmask]* <[log in to unmask]>* no
later than October 10th, 2016.*


*References*


Béal, V. and M. Rousseau, 2014, « Alterpolitiques! », *Métropoles* [En
ligne], 15

Birch, K. and V. Mykhnenko (eds). 2010. *The Rise and Fall of
Neoliberalism: The Collapse of an Economic Order*. London and New York: Zed
Books, 280p.

Cutts, A. and S. Moser. 2015. *State-community Collaborative Strategies to
Enable the Right to the City in Argentina*. Habitat International 49,
243-250.

Evans, P. and W.H. Sewell. 2013. *The Neoliberal Era: Ideology, Policy, and
Social Effects*. In: M.L. Peter, A. Hall (Eds.), Social resilience in the
neoliberal era, Cambridge University Press, New York, NY (2013), pp. 35–68

Hackworth, J. 2007. *The Neoliberal City. Governance, Ideology, and
Development in the American Urbanism*. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 225p.

Janoschka, M. 2011. *Urban Geographies in the Age of Neoliberalism. A
Conceptualization of Local Resistance in Terms of Participation and Urban
Citizenship*. Investigaciones Geograficas 76, 118-132.

Morel-Journel, C. and G. Pinson (eds), *Debating the Neoliberal City*,
forthcoming.

Rousseau, M. and* V. *Béal, 2015, « Alterpolitiques! 2 », *Métropoles* [En
ligne], 17

Sassen, S. 2000. *The Global City: Strategic Site/New Frontier*. American
Studies 41(2/3), 79-95.

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Date:    Tue, 20 Sep 2016 13:58:54 -0700
From:    MM Ramirez <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: AAG 2017 CFP :: Keywords for Urban Geography

Keywords for Urban Geography

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers

Boston, MA, April 5-9 2017

Organizers: Asha Best, Rutgers University

Magie Ramírez, University of Washington


There has been a resurgent interest in defamiliarizing keywords and
deconstructing well worn constructs. Following Raymond Williams’
provocation this renewed attention to keywords attempts to open up
alternate conceptual pathways for the future of a particular field. In the
same vein, this session seeks to defamiliarize key terms that are taken for
granted when articulating cities and city-ness, and to generate a different
grammar for understanding urban processes. This session asks: what would
happen if we were to dis-place the familiarity of particular keywords, and
queer their meaning?

For this session, we are calling for participants to interrupt keywords
pertaining to urban geography, and speak on what becomes of the city when
these words’ familiarity are disrupted. This can be in relation to one’s
work, or simply one’s own relationship to place. While we welcome a range
of keyword submissions, we are especially interested in entries that
critically engage and draw upon black geographical thought, indigenous
studies, Latinx studies, queer, post- and decolonial theories to come at
these keywords from angles often overlooked. We envision a conversation on
what these keywords ‘do’ in the world, with each presentation critically
engaging a particular term.

As a starting point, these keywords could be:

   -

   Racial Capitalism
   -

   Blackness
   -

   Occupation/ Occupy
   -

   Colonialism
   -

   Ghetto
   -

   Aesthetic
   -

   Gentry
   -

   Enclave
   -

   Revitalization/ Renewal
   -

   Community
   -

   Blight
   -

   Development
   -

   Urban
   -

   Gentrification


We are open to formats for this session, and so ask that in your abstract
responding to this CFP, you mention if you would prefer a paper, panel,
interactive short paper or illustrated paper session
<http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/call_for_papers/call_for_papers/session_types>.
We welcome mixed-media and creative interpretations of the theme as well.
Non traditional presentations might draw on one’s counter-geographic
imagination or embodied alternative geographies of place to think about how
might we dis-locate these terms as a reflection of our lived experience in
cities.

If you are interested in participating, please respond to:

Asha [[log in to unmask]edu] and Magie [[log in to unmask]]

by October 12th, 2016.

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