CALL FOR PAPERS – AAG MEETINGS IN LOS ANGELES, 2002
Race & Nature: Exploring the intersections
Session organizer: Juanita Sundberg
Application Deadline: August 15, 2001
This session seeks to explore how race is enlisted in the construction
of nature. I am seeking papers that identify the racial grammar
underwriting discursive and material productions of nature within
contemporary contexts - including the discipline of cultural geography.
In particular, I encourage papers that explore how whiteness informs
social constructions of nature. Are there ways of making whiteness
visible through our analyses?
Potential topics to be explored in session papers may include, but are
not limited to:
How do imaginative geographies of nature enlist racialized discourses
and representations to (re)produce difference and inequality between
social groups?
How does race underpin representations of specific environmental
projects (e.g. natural resource development, protected areas, and other
such nation-building projects) or ecological social movements?
How are particular landscape features racialized in association with
specific social groups?
What are the material consequences of racialized ecologies for
particular social groups?
If you have any questions, please contact me.
Please submit your abstract and full contact details by August 15 to:
Juanita Sundberg
Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z2
Phone: 604-822-3535
Fax: 6045-822-6150
Via email: [log in to unmask]
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