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Subject: 'Beyond the Academy?' Provisional Programme
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:44:13 +0100
From: Duncan Fuller <[log in to unmask]>
Apologies for cross-postings. Please find below the provisional
=programme
for the 'Beyond the Academy? Critical Geographies in Action' conference
being held at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, 12-14th =
September
2001. We are now taking bookings for this conference - please download
=
a
booking form from within the conference web-pages, situated at:
http://online.northumbria.ac.uk/faculties/ss/gem/conferences/beyond.html=
and return this form, with payment, by the end of August 2001. Upon =
receipt
of your booking form and payment, you will be sent information on local
accommodation. Hope to see you in September for what should be a
stimulating event!
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Beyond the Academy? Critical Geographies in Action
Provisional Programme
Opening Paper
Duncan Fuller (UNN) and Rob Kitchin (NUI Maynooth)
Beyond the Academy?: Critical Geographies in Action
Session 1: 13.30-15.30
Keith Halfacree (Swansea)
'I could only do wrong': academics, academic research and DiY culture
Chris Wilbert (Anglia)
'Say something constructive': Critique today
James DeFilippis (King's College London)
What if 'the community' is wrong? Politics, ethics and insider/outsider
issues in participatory research.
Paul Routledge (Glasgow)
Relational ethics and critical engagement
Session 2: 16.00-18.00
Rachel Pain (Durham)
Whose account counts? Reflections on PRA and tyranny in the 'developed'
world.
David Crouch (Derby)
Working for empowerment and inclusivity: engaging in the everyday
Ray Hudson (Durham)
tbc
Ron Martin (Oxford)
Doing policy research: assessing the local impact of Labour's new deal
Session 3a: 8.30-10.30
Alan R. Townsend (Durham)
Learning from experience in local governance
Peter O'Brien and Andy Pike (Newcastle)
Working with the trade unions in regional development and governance in
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the
North-East of England
Richard Meegan (Liverpool) and Caitr=EDona N=ED Laoire (Queen's)
The role of geographers in policy evaluation: lessons from Merseyside
Andrew Collins, John Kirkby, Phil O'Keefe (Northumbria)
Learning by doing: lessons from disaster management
Session 3b: 8.30-10.30
Gavin Brown (King's College London)
Critical entanglements in East London: journeys of a queer geographer
through consultancy work and activism
Kelly Barclay (Wellington)
Pakeha and Praxis: locating theory and practice within an ethnicised
politics of difference in Aotearoa New Zealand
Paul Chatterton (Newcastle)
'Squatting is still legal, necessary and free'. A brief intervention in
=
the
corporate city
Andrew Donaldson (Newcastle)
Nyns ov vy Sowsnek: research in the (mine)field with Cornish =
nationalists.
Session 4a: 11.00-13.00
Dave Featherstone (OU)
Engaging with the Imaginative Geographies of Counter-Globalisation =
Politics
David Wood (Newcastle)
The Changing Composition and Tactics of Anti-Globalization Activism =
from MAI
to GATS: an Actor-Network Interpretation.=20
Michael Duckett (Newcastle)
Oi! Recuperator! - An Anarchist Critique of Research
Marie Cieri (Rutgers)
Activists Speak Out: Reflections on the Pursuit of Change in America
Session 4b: 11.00-13.00
Andrew Jones (Birkbeck)
Thinking Beyond the Think-Tank: political research from an academic
background
Geoff O'Brien and Phil O'Keefe (Northumbria)
Politics and the Academy - Do they mix?
Rhys Evans (Aberdeen)
Making Discursive Interventions
Catherine White and Cathy Bailey (Northumbria)
Ethics in qualitative geography
Session 5a: 14.00-16.00
Jane Tooke (Goldsmiths)
Working with communities: the politics of participation=20
Mike Kesby (St Andrews)
Beyond the participatory arena: a Foucauldian reading of empowerment?=20
Mark Goodwin, Dawn Armstrong-Esther (Aberystwyth), Jenny Deaville =
(Institute
of Rural Health), Marie Grannell (Powys and Ceredigion Health Promotion
Unit)
Linking Participation, Evaluation and Implementation: Some Key Issues =
in
Undertaking Action Research
David Storey (Worcester)
Contract Research: Problems and Possibilities
Session 5b: 14.00-16.00
Marc Garrett (Furtherfield.org)
Reclaiming the Artists' Identity
Judith Tsouvalis (Oxford)
Critical Immobility -The dilemmas posed by the Crisis of Representation
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Michael Woods (Aberystwyth)
Critical Engagements with a Changing Countryside: A speculative agenda.
Andrew Jonas (Hull)
Conservation and death threats (working title)
Session 6: 16.30-18.00
Jenny Robinson (OU)
'The Practice of post--colonial Geography' or 'Can Geography be
Post-colonialised?'
Janet Townsend (Durham)
A feminist in the new NGO-mediated imperialism
Paul Cloke (Bristol)
Exploring boundaries of professional/personal practice and action: =
being and
becoming in Khayelitsha Township, Cape Town.
Session 7: 9.00-10.30
Tim Angus, Ian Cook, James Evans et al (Birmingham)
Material culture and cyborg pedagogy
Gill Valentine (Sheffield)
Beyond queer theory: using academic work to challenge heteronormativity
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in
the classroom and queer educational practice
Tim Unwin (Royal Holloway)
Bridging the digital divide: partnership, ethics, and geographical =
praxis
Session 8: 11.00-13.00
Dave Sibley (Hull)
tbc
Noel Castree (Manchester)
'Border geography'
Discussion: issues and agendas for an engaged critical geography
Duncan Fuller (Northumbria) and Rob Kitchin (NUI Maynooth)
Final words
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Dr. Duncan Fuller
Division of Geography and Environmental Management
Lipman Building
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
UK
Tel (Direct): (0191) 2273753
Mobile: 07946 401359
Tel (Division Office): (0191) 2273951
Fax: (0191) 2274715
'Beyond the Academy? Critical geographies in Action'
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
12-14 September 2001
Conference website -
http://online.northumbria.ac.uk/faculties/ss/gem/conferences/beyond.html=
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