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CALL FOR PAPERS
POST-MARXIST HUMAN GEOGRAPHIES
AAG ANNUAL CONFERENCE: NEW YORK, 2001 (27th FEB - MARCH 3rd)
Convenors:
1. Dr Richard Smith ([log in to unmask])
2. Dr Marcus Doel ([log in to unmask])
Despite the enormous influence of Marxism on human geography there have been
few attempts to specify and assess the innumerable departures from Marxism
in recent decades. We aim to bring together human geographers interested in
post-Marxist theory and practice: some of whom may envisage their work as
breaking with Marxism, while others may see their work as a continuation
and/or radicalization of Marxism. The sessions will explore the potential of
post-Marxian human geographies in terms of theory, politics, and practice,
and consider the extent to which contemporary human geography expresses a
'Marxian political unconscious.'
Possible themes for papers include:
a. The limits, crises, and aporias of Marxism
b. The heterogeneity and incommensurability of Marxisms
c. Beyond class reductionism and economic determinism
d. Feminist and post-colonial interventions
e. Doing justice to the politics of difference and anti-essentialist
Marxisms
f. Rethinking modes of production and reproduction
g. Political economy after the cultural turn
h. Radical democracy
i. Post-isms
In addition to these themes, papers may wish to address reactions to Marxism
in the work of authors such as: Adorno, Arendt, Aronowitz, Balibar, Bardhan,
Baudrillard, Bauman, Benjamin, Callinicos, Coward, Deleuze, Derrida, Elster,
Forgacs, Foucault, Geras, Guattari, Habermas, Hall, Hartmann, Hindess,
Hirst, Irigaray, Laclau, Lyotard, Mouffe, Pzeworski, Ramazanoglu, Roemer,
Touraine, Walby, and Walker. Clearly, the multiplicity of reactions has not
produced an homogeneous post-Marxism. However, as human geographers we can
begin to work through this unstable constellation of departures from Marxism
in the hope of new kinds of geography.
Prospective titles and abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent to
either of the convenors by 1st July 2000.
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1. Dr Richard Smith, Department of Geography, University of Leicester,
University Road, Leicester, England, LE1 7RH
2. Dr Marcus Doel, Department of Geography, Loughborough University,
Leicestershire, England, LE11 3TU
Dr Richard Smith,
Department of Geography,
University of Leicester,
University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)116 252 3845
Fax: +44 (0)116 252 3854
Email: [log in to unmask]
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