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Dear critters, With usual apologies for cross-posting, please find below a CFP that might be of interest to some of you. 2nd Call forPapers: Intimate technologies, bodies andspace Symposium on Bodies, cultures and societies, Humangeographies panel at the Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2019, 23rdNovember 2019, Fribourg (CH). Organisers:Dr. Elisabeth Militz (University of Berne) and Dr. Karine Duplan (University ofGeneva) Worldwide, the smartphone becomes acrucial device in people’s everyday life, a daily, intimate technology thatdeeply enmeshes emotions, bodies and spaces (Truong et al. 2019). Yet, globallycirculating and seemingly accessible technologies and material devices such assmartphones constitute and shape people’s lives in different ways at differentplaces. While, for example, new reproductive technologies ‘have brought “newfreedoms” in the form of opportunities for some […] they have also brought “newdependencies”’ (Gupta 2006, 28) for others. Geographic scholarship interestedin the socio-economic, political and cultural entanglements of technologies,bodies and everyday spaces examines, for example, heterosexual men’s increasingdemand for human-sized commodity-dolls made of various synthetic materials (Nast 2016) or to what extents thecriminal case investigation technology ‘purple packet’ can ensureevidence-based prosecution in case of intimate partner violence (Cuomo 2017). Technologies are, however, not onlyentangled with the most intimate scale of all geographies, the body.Relationships between technologies, bodies and spaces also unravel powerrelations as they demonstrate ways in which the same technologies, for examplereproductive technologies in the global market of infertility treatments, implydifferent costs, legal statuses and access for and to people at differentplaces (Schurr 2018). Likewise, geopoliticaltechnologies in the field of state security can make visible the racialized,gendered and sexualized logics inherent to and constitutive of surveillanceinstruments, when, for example, iris recognition biometrics identify and targetthe individual body as the site of a potential threat to the nation state (Fluri 2014). At the same time, newtechnologies, such as digital technologies, constituting and influencingeveryday experiences and world making also fundamentally transform andreorganize social, emotional and material spaces (Nash and Gorman-Murray 2019). This session seeks to build onrecent geographic scholarship on digitalization, materiality, emotion andaffect to contribute to the critical exploration of the different ways in whichtechnologies, intimacy, bodies and space interconnect. Methodologically and/orconceptually and empirically grounded papers are invited, but not limited, toaddress one or more of the following themes: - Globalizedtechnologies and intimate everyday lives - Mobility,movement and travel of intimate technologies - Racialized,gendered and sexualized logics of intimate technologies - Geographiesof social media - Geographiesof the smartphone and other smart technologies - Geographiesof intimate body technologies - Geographiesof digital lives Please submit your abstract (max. 250 words (excl.references)) by 5th July 2019 via e-mail toElisabeth Militz ([log in to unmask])and Karine Duplan ([log in to unmask]). We will inform all people interestedin the session by the end of July 2019 about the final selection of papers. Final abstracts need to be uploadedelectronically by 30th August 2019 on the conference websiteusing the abstract submission form (https://geoscience-meeting.ch/sgm2019/abstracts/abstract-submission-form/). References: Cuomo, Dana. 2017. ‘Calling 911:Intimate Partner Violence and Responsible Citizenship in a Neoliberal Era’. Social& Cultural Geography 0 (0): 1–20.https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2017.1392590. Fluri, Jennifer L. 2014. ‘States of(in)Security: Corporeal Geographies and the Elsewhere War’. Environment andPlanning D: Society and Space 32 (5): 795 – 814.https://doi.org/10.1068/d13004p. Gupta, Jyotsna Agnihotri. 2006.‘Towards Transnational Feminisms: Some Reflections and Concerns in Relation tothe Globalization of Reproductive Technologies’. European Journal of Women’sStudies 13 (1): 23–38. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506806060004. Nash, Catherine Jean, and AndrewGorman-Murray, eds. 2019. The Geographies of Digital Sexuality.Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. Nast, Heidi J. 2016. ‘Into the Armsof Dolls: Japan’s Declining Fertility Rates, the 1990s Financial Crisis and the(Maternal) Comforts of the Posthuman’. Social & Cultural Geography 0(0): 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2016.1228112. Schurr, Carolin. 2018. ‘The BabyBusiness Booms: Economic Geographies of Assisted Reproduction’. GeographyCompass 12 (8): e12395. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12395. Truong, Jasmine, Florian Labhart,Darshan Santani, Daniel Gatica‐Perez, Emmanuel Kuntsche, and Sara Landolt.2019. ‘The Emotional Entanglements of Smartphones in the Field: On EmotionalDiscomfort, Power Relations, and Research Ethics’. Area, March.https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12548. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1