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Calls for Papers (and Sessions)

for the upcoming Regional IGU 2018 in Quebec City (August 6 - 10, 2018) 

The IGU Commission on Political Geography

See  http://igu2018.ulaval.ca/

The Commission on Political Geography is welcoming papers for the following thematic sessions and for its open session.

 

C34-SP1. Linguistic diversity, mobility and inclusion: Old and new political and cultural geographies of linguist difference

 

C34-SP2. The populism-nationalism nexus and political geographic (dis)order.

 

C34-SP3. New Policies and Legislation to Bring About Transformative Global Changes

 

C34-SP4. The Geopolitics of public debates about sexual harassment. Reverberations around #MeToo and similar campaigns across political and cultural borders (co-sponsored by Commission on Gender and Geography)

 

C34-SP5. Seas of difference: political and cultural geographies of the seas and international waters

 

C34-SP6. A Century after the Great War: Political Geographies of the Peace Treaties

 

C34-SP100. OPEN SESSION / SESSION OUVERTE

 

Online you’ll find the sessions

http://igu2018.ulaval.ca/registration-submission/commissions-and-study-groups-list/

Under C34. Political Geography


Please send your abstract to the convenors (see below for name and email addresses ) before your submit it online   (see below for details and contact details)

 

NB: It is still possible to submit sessions proposal: sessions sponsorship requests for paper presentations, panels and posters can be sent to the chairs of the Commission on Political Geography

Alexander B. Murphy,  University of Oregon, [log in to unmask]

Virginie Mamadouh, University of Amsterdam, [log in to unmask]

 

Important dates for the 2018 IGU Regional Conference

Submission of organised session proposals	Until 15 March 2018
Submission of individual papers and posters	Until 15 March 2018
Registration - Early Bird	Until 31 January 2018
Registration – Regular	1 February to 31 May 2018
Notification of acceptance to authors and mailing of invitation letter	1 May 2018
Registration – Late	1 June 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Please check the website of the Conference for IGU travel grants

http://igu2018.ulaval.ca/registration-submission/igu-travel-grant-program/

The CG also has two travel grants (of US$ 500.- each) for advanced students or early career colleagues presenting a paper at a CPG session.

(Application details will follow soon on this list).

The AAG also has AAG NSF travel grants to attend the 2018 IGU Regional Conference/CAG Annual Meeting  See  www.aag.org/grantsawards/igutravel

 

 

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Details about the thematic sessions of the Commission on Political Geography

 

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C34-SP1. Linguistic diversity, mobility and inclusion: Old and new political and cultural geographies of linguist difference

Virginie Mamadouh, University of Amsterdam, [log in to unmask]

 

Linguistic diversity, mobility and inclusion: Old and new political and cultural geographies of linguist difference

The Commission on Political Geography welcomes papers pertaining to linguistic diversity and territorial arrangements to accommodate linguistic rights of residents in linguistic diverse societies. Themes that would be particularly appropriate include the following:

·         The role of language in (pan-)nationalist, (ethno)nationalist, regionalist or localist movements

·         The role of languages in migration and integration processes

·         Urban multilingualism: migration and (linguistic) superdiversity in world cities

·         Geographies of global Englishes (and other lingua franca)

·         Old meet new linguistic diversity: migration language policies vs. regional language policies

·         Unity in diversity: supranational policies to enhance linguistic diversity (European Union, India, South Africa) and the Canadian experience.

 

Diversité linguistique, mobilité et inclusion: géographies politique et culturelles de différences linguistiques traditionnelles et nouvelles

La Commission de Géographie politique encourage des contributions sur la diversité linguistique et les arrangements territoriaux  pour accommoder les droits linguistiques des habitants de sociétés linguistiquement diverses. Thèmes possibles:

• Le rôle des langues dans les mouvements (pan-)nationalistes, (ethno)nationalistes, régionalistes ou localistes
• Le rôle des langues dans les processus de migration et d’intégration
• Le multilinguisme urbain: migration et super-diversité linguistique dans les villes mondiales
• Géographies des anglais mondialisés (et autres lingua franca)
• Quand la diversité traditionnelle rencontre la nouvelle: politiques linguistiques des migrations et politiques linguistiques régionales
• Unité en diversité: politiques supranationales pour la diversité linguistique (Union européenne, Inde, Afrique du Sud) et l’expérience canadienne.

 

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C34-SP2. The populism-nationalism nexus and political geographic (dis)order.

Alexander B. Murphy,  University of Oregon, [log in to unmask]

 

The populism-nationalism nexus and political geographic (dis)order

The Commission on Political Geography welcomes papers pertaining to the relationship between the rise of populist movements and territorial nationalism.  The aim is to encourage consideration of the role territorial nationalism plays in the emergence of such movements, as well as the implications of populist movements for issues of identity and belonging.  We welcome a range of papers exploring the populism-nationalism nexus and the role it is playing in the evolving political geographic (dis)order.

 Themes that would be particularly appropriate include the following:

•    The role of ethnonationalism in populist movements
•   The territorial strategies of populist movements 
•   The political-geography of populist opposition
•    Implications of populism for conceptualizations of the people-territory-identity relationship      
•    Differences in populist uprisings and responses thereto in Europe, Asia, and North America
•    The linkages among and between populism, deterritorialization, and reterritorialization
•    What fuels the humans impulse to construct territorially-based communities 

 

Le lien entre le populisme et le nationalisme et le (dés) ordre politique
La Commission de géographie politique accueille favorablement les documents relatifs à la relation entre la montée des mouvements populistes et le nationalisme territorial. L'objectif est d'encourager la prise en compte du rôle du nationalisme territorial dans l'émergence de tels mouvements, ainsi que les implications des mouvements populistes sur les questions d'identité et d'appartenance. Nous accueillons une série d'articles explorant le lien entre le populisme et le nationalisme et le rôle qu'il joue dans l'ordre (le) désordre politique en évolution.
 Les thèmes qui seraient particulièrement appropriés sont les suivants:
• Le rôle de l'ethnonationalisme dans les mouvements populistes
• Les stratégies territoriales des mouvements populistes
• La géographie politique de l'opposition populiste
• Implications du populisme pour les conceptualisations de la relation peuple-territoire-identité
• Différences dans les soulèvements populistes et leurs réponses en Europe, en Asie et en Amérique du Nord
• Les liens entre nationalisme et entre le populisme, la déterritorialisation et la reterritorialisation
• Qu'est-ce qui alimente l'impulsion des humains à construire des communautés territoriales?

 

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C34-SP3. New Policies and Legislation to Bring About Transformative Global Changes

Jennifer Mateer, University of Victoria/University of Winnipeg,  [log in to unmask]

 

Economic growth has caused significant environmental degradation globally, increasing water scarcity, deforestation, food insecurity, and higher levels of inequality among human populations. Given the implications of environmental degradation for communities and ecosystems, the challenge of achieving sustainable growth and environmental justice is immense. The urgency for policy to address this issue has provided the impetus for policy and legislative changes within various regional and national frameworks.  These changes may be the basis of a powerful political and economic shifts, or transformations, providing opportunities to achieve sustainable development goals. 

 

The papers in this session will explore how transformation, in contrast to resilience (defined as persistence) or adaptation (defined as an incremental adjustment), may achieve a new method of achieving sustainable development.  

 

While the need for transformation has been discussed across a variety of disciplines and within many different regional contexts (Gunderson & Holling, 2002; Irwin, 2010; Pelling & Manuel-Navarette, 2011; Sharma, 2007), essential elements of the field of transformation remain underexplored and warrant critical attention.  Two strands of thinking currently dominate contemporary writing on transformation. The first emerges from the sustainability literature and conceptualizes transformation as an intensive policy shift or intervention (Frantzeskaki et al., 2012; Loorbach, 2007). An example of this would be the resettlement of coastal communities or a restructuring of agricultural systems. The second strand is rooted in critical social theory (Beddoe et al., 2009; Forsyth, 2003; Marshall et al., 2012; O’Brien & Wolf, 2010). This perspective argues that transformation must be built on an explicit challenge to the social, political, and economic structures that produce inequality and vulnerability, and bring about profound changes to existing institutions, values, and norms (Berkhout et al., 2010; Crompton, 2011; O’Brien 2013; Park et al. 2012).  This panel will give attention to Transformation, and in particular will focus on how transformation can reduce inequality and increase sustainable living through formal governance structures, such as federal legislation, higher-court precedents, and public policy (Berkhout et al., 2010; Kates et al., 2012; O’Brien, 2012).

 

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C34-SP4. The Geopolitics of public debates about sexual harassment. Reverberations around #MeToo and similar campaigns across political and cultural borders (co-sponsored by Commission on Gender and Geography)

Convenors: Virginie Mamadouh (University of Amsterdam) [log in to unmask] and Marianne Blidon (Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne) [log in to unmask]

 

In January 2018 the #MeToo revolution has reached a new high in the United States with the speech of Oprah Winfrey at the Golden globe , an open letter signed by 100 French actresses among which Catherine Deneuve, took a stand against its puritanism. The contrast highlights very different readings of the events among women across the world and more generally across political and cultural borders.

Without stereotyping or essentialising national or gender differences regarding power, sexuality and more specifically sexual harassment, this session co-sponsored by the Gender & Geography Commission and the Commission on Political Geography welcomes papers analyzing debates in different places in the world about the US revelations and the localization of the #MeToo movement (if any), especially those comparing systematically debates in different places, or researching how the debates are shaped by transnational interactions (including the role of “international” media, of social media and of diaspora networks)   and how they can be vistas into the diversity of gender relations and sexual politics around the globe. 

The aim is to improve our understanding of the geopolitical representations of (national and gender) difference that inform the readings of such campaigns and of the misconducts that prompt them. Different theoretical approaches and methodologies are welcome.

We also seek comparisons with other campaigns and misconducts that have prompted similar (transnational) debates: Dominique Strauss-Kahn ‘s misconduct in New York hotel in 2011 (again pitching American and French commentators), 2016 Cologne, or by contrast outrage about emancipatory movements that have been framed as sexually deviant (Pussy Riot in Russia, driving Saudi women or White Wednesdays in Iran). Moreover studies of locally significant incidents that did not manage to reach international visibility – despite the efforts of local activists  - (such as the campaign against Law Article 522 in Lebanon) are also relevant to the intended conversation, especially if references to problems, policies  and movements elsewhere have been used as arguments.

 

La géographie politique des débats sur le harcèlement sexuel. Réfractions autour du #MeToo et de campagnes similaires à travers les frontières politique et culturelles

En janvier 2018, la révolution du phénomène #MeToo a pris une ampleur nouvelle aux Etats-Unis suite au discours d'Oprah Winfrey, lors de la cérémonie de remise des Golden Globes, et à la publication concomitante d’une lettre ouverte signée par 100 personnalités françaises dont l’actrice Catherine Deneuve contre cette forme de puritanisme. Le contraste entre les deux met en évidence des lectures très différentes des événements à travers le monde et plus généralement à travers les frontières politiques et culturelles.

Sans stéréotyper ou essentialiser les différences nationales ou de genre concernant le pouvoir, la sexualité et plus spécifiquement le harcèlement sexuel, cette session coparrainée par la Commission Genre et Géographie et la Commission de Géographie Politique réunit des communications analysant les débats dans différents endroits du monde sur les révélations américaines et la localisation du mouvement #MeToo (le cas échéant), notamment celles comparant systématiquement les débats dans différents lieux ou recherchant comment les débats sont façonnés par les interactions transnationales (y compris le rôle des médias "internationaux", des réseaux sociaux et des réseaux diasporiques) et comment ils peuvent être des points de vue sur la diversité des relations de genre et des politiques sexuelles dans le monde.

Le but de cette session est d'améliorer notre compréhension des représentations géopolitiques des différences (nationales et de genre) qui éclairent les lectures de telles campagnes et des conduites qui les motivent. Toutes les approches théoriques et méthodologiques sont bienvenues.

Nous recherchons également des comparaisons avec d'autres campagnes et affaires qui ont suscité des débats (transnationaux) similaires: l'affaire Dominique Strauss-Kahn dans un hôtel de New York en 2011 (de nouveau des commentateurs américains et français), Cologne en 2016 ou par contraste l’indignation de mouvements émancipateurs qui ont été présentés comme outranciers ou sexuellement déviants (les lesbian advengers ou justicières lesbiennes aux Etats-Unis, les Pussy Riot en Russie, les conductrices saoudiennes ou Les « mercredis blancs » en Iran).Par ailleurs, les études d'affaires localement significatives qui n'ont pas réussi à atteindre une visibilité internationale - malgré les efforts des activistes locaux - (telles que la campagne contre l'article 522 au Liban) sont également pertinentes dans le cadre de ce débat, en particulier si les références aux problèmes, aux politiques et aux mouvements étrangers ont été utilisés comme arguments.

 

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C34-SP5. Seas of difference: political and cultural geographies of the seas and international waters

Convenor: Elena dell’Agnese, University of Milan Bicocca, [log in to unmask]

 

On the world political map, the Ocean Sea is usually visualized as an undifferentiated blue surface. Such a representation reflects the marginal position occupied by the sea in traditional political geography, a “landlocked” discipline, that focused traditionally on the l attributes of the land territory of the nation-state. At best political geography seems to be concerned with “territorial” disputes related to the political control of straits, of islands, and of the marine resources located in riparian waters and the high sea.

A more in-depth interest towards the political meaning of the ocean has been surfacing in the past two decades. On the one hand , there is a growing literature about the “regional analysis” of different marine realms, like the Mediterranean, the Arctic or the Caribbean Sea. On the other hand, more attention is given to the specific condition of extra-territoriality offered by the high sea and to its economic and political repercussions on human activities, especially those connected with mobility (cruise tourism, migrations, cargo shipping) and with new forms of settlement (seasteading).

The session welcomes papers focused on any aspect of these emerging and differentiated political geographies of the sea.

 

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C34-SP6. A Century after the Great War: Political Geographies of the Peace Treaties.

Convenor: Doug Batson, Retired U.S. Department of Defense geographer, Virginia, USA  [log in to unmask]

 

George M. Cohan's resounding American war ballad Over There exclaimed "We'll be over, we're coming over; And we won't come back till it's over over there." While most U.S. troops were over there and back within one year, the November 11, 1918 armistice did not end the Great War. Another harrowing four years (1919-1923) were required until peace treaties were concluded with all the defeated Central Powers.

A century ago U.S. President Woodrow Wilson called on then-Director of the American Geographical Society, Dr. Isaiah Bowman, to gather The Inquiry. The secret research of these 150 academics undergirded Mr. Wilson’s 14 Points for a scientific peace, one that redrew 2000 miles of new international boundaries. This session examines the intents and unwieldy results of the peace treaties: Versailles, Brest-Litovsk, St. Germain, Neuilly, Trianon, Sevres, and Lausanne. The Wilsonian ideal of self-determination was not always then realized. Soon after the guns fell silent, Mr. Wilson was discredited and even Dr. Bowman had misgivings.  

We welcome a variety of studies, theories, concepts, and methodologies to assess these treaties’ legacies from geographical points of view. The peace treaties have had grave consequences for political geography, from WWII to more recent events (the disintegration of Yugoslavia, Kurdish autonomy) and are still referenced by political movements such as Trianon and Hungarian nationalism.