Hi all,
Apologies for one last call. We're looking for one more paper to fill a double session on the following:
AAG Annual Meeting, 10-14 April 2018, New Orleans
Call for Papers: The
body, political violence and the colonial present
Mikko Joronen (Tampere University)
Mark Griffiths (Northumbria University)
The last two decades have brought increasing interest in the manifold ways that affects, emotions and attunements
shape sites of political violence and struggle. In the context of contemporary colonialism (Gregory 2004), the body’s affective and emotional capacities are increasingly targeted as a means of subjecting populations to ‘political and human asphyxiation’ (Falah
2004, 599). An array of embodiments, both negative and affirmative, have thus been mobilised at principal sites of the colonial present: in Palestinian oppression and resistance (Griffiths 2017; Joronen 2017) and in Iraq and Afghanistan towards military domination
and legitimation (Anderson 2011; Belcher 2014). In addition to these contexts, focus has fallen also on the ways that indigenous populations experience settler colonial ways of (mis)recognition on the level of the body, but also on the broader anxieties experienced
over the practices of the postcolonial state (Comaroff & Comaroff 2005; Daigle 2016). Ways of governing colonial bodies vary greatly, ranging from extreme physical violence and humiliation to a prolonged waiting in the precarious conditions of colonial subjugation.
And yet, even extreme forms of political violence and colonial ‘hyperprecarisation’ (Hammami 2016) have engendered new forms of solidarity, countervisibility, and anticolonial activism that resists embodied colonial techniques of targeting, framing and othering
(Fattah & Fierke 2009).
In the context of the body, political violence and the colonial present, we invite authors to propose presentations
on the following topics (this is not an exhaustive list):
Anxious geographies of political violence
Affective anticolonial resistance
Palestinian experience of humiliation/stress/anxiety
Israel and the body as object-target
Colonial vulnerabilities/colonial recognitions
Indigenous geographies of the body and oppression
The body as a site of colonial politics
(Un)grievable lives of the subaltern
Vulnerability, solidarity and resistance
Colonial appropriation of spaces
Settler colonialism and the everyday
Haunted and targeted bodies
Necropolitics of the colonial body
Within these broad themes we encourage contributions from a variety of perspectives and disciplines, from theory, methodology and/or empirical research.
We intend the session to work towards an eventual special or themed journal issue in the field of geography, though involvement in this is not a pre-requisite for participation in the session.
References
Anderson B (2011). Population and affective perception: Biopolitics
and anticipatory action in UScounterinsurgency doctrine. Antipode, 43(2),
205-236
Belcher O (2014). Staging the Orient: Counterinsurgency training sites
and the US military imagination. Annals of theAssociation
of American Geographers, 104(5),
1012-1029
Comaroff J & Comaroff JL (2005). Naturing the Nation: Aliens, Apocalypse,
and the Postcolonial State. In: HansenTB & Stepputat H (eds) Sovereign
Bodies Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World. Princeton: Princeton University Press 120-147
Daigle M (2016) Awawanenitakik: The spatial politics of recognition
and relational geographies of indigenous self-determination. The
Canadian Geographer 60 259–269
Falah G W (2004) Truth
at war and naming the intolerable in Palestine. Antipode 36(4) 596–600
Fattah, K., & Fierke, K. M. (2009). A clash of emotions:
The politics of humiliation and politicalviolence in the Middle East. European
journal of international relations, 15(1),
67-93
Griffiths M (2017) Hope in Hebron: the political affects of activism
in a strangled city Antipode 49(3)
617-635
Hammami R (2016) Precarious politics: The activism of ‘bodies that count’
(aligning with those that don’t) in
Palestine’s colonial frontier. In: Butler J, Gambetti Z and Sabsay L
(eds) Vulnerability in Resistance. Durham:
Duke University Press 167–190
Joronen M (2017) Spaces of waiting: Politics of precarious recognition
in the occupied West Bank. Environment andPlanning
D: Society and Space, DOI: 10.1177/0263775817708789
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