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CFP: Cities, geopolitical violence and everyday sensitivities: Towards affective and emotional urban geopolitics

 

Nordic Geographers Meeting – Stockholm - June 18th–21st 2017

 

Conveners:

Sara Fregonese (School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham)

Sunčana Laketa (Department of Geography, University of Zürich)

 

The multidisciplinary literature of urban geopolitics has bridged political geography, urban studies, planning and architecture in order to trace the complex connections between the socio-­‐material fabric of cities, violence, and global politics (Graham 2004, 2010; Fregonese 2009, 2012; Yacobi 2009). Critiques to the urban geopolitics agenda have denounced its tendency to limit analysis to extreme case studies of heavily militarised conflict, and to maintain a technocentric and disembodied approach to urban violence. Meanwhile, spaces and practices beyond militarised conflict remain under‐investigated. Everyday and embodied accounts of urban geopolitics have been called for (Fregonese, 2012; Harker, 2014), but there is still a paucity of research on the intensities of feeling through which urban space is experienced amidst conflict, division, political emergencies and geopolitical change (Navaro-Yashin, 2012; Laketa, 2016). 

This paper session aims to cover this lacuna, by innovatively joining perspectives from geographies of affect and emotion with those from urban conflict and violence working more generally towards an urban geopolitics that appreciates the fine-grained connections between everyday sensitivities, urban space, and global politics. 

 

Contributions are sought from broad range of themes on everyday embodied experiences of urban geopolitical violence including: 

 

• Affective, atmospheric and emotional geographies of (post)‐conflict cities
• Feminist approaches to urban geopolitics: from “banal terrorism” to securitization of cities 
• Embodiment and affective atmospheres of urban violence and peace
• Urban emergencies: sensing, coping, feeling and grieving
• The engineering of affect and urban space: managing public emotions, affect and atmospheres 
• Historical affective geographies of urban conflict 

 

 

Please submit abstracts of max 250 words to [log in to unmask]  and [log in to unmask] by 15 December 2016.

 

Instructions on how to submit abstracts can be found at http://www.humangeo.su.se/english/ngm-2017/dates/call-for-papers

 

Session page: http://www.humangeo.su.se/english/ngm-2017/programme/sessions/session-n3 

 

 

Best wishes,

Sara

 

Dr. Sara Fregonese

Birmingham Fellow
Equality & Diversity and Athena SWAN Lead

Chair, Political Geography Research Group, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham, B15 2TT
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