Call for papers: Association of American Geographers, March 2004,
Philadelphia
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EXPLORATIONS IN AFFECT:
PRIVATE LIFE, MEMORY & THE SENSES
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We wish to connect up with work in geography and elsewhere that explores the
links between affects and spatialities. The session will thus seek to
capitalise on recent interest in the notion of affect, furthering
understandings of the links between affect, experience and place. To this
end, this session will include geographies that explore ideas of intimacy,
emotions, the role of private life, memory and the senses in the
construction of patterns or networks of interaction with places and/or
objects. It seeks to further the connections between life and place by
considering the multifarious ways that objects and practices foster
explorations in geographical thinking, experiences of place, and spatial
imaginations.
The definition of 'affect' that we are working with is not limited to the
psychoanalytic. It includes work in areas such as Deleuzian philosophy,
cultural studies, aesthetic theory, gender studies, as well as
methodological explorations of affect.
Alphonso Lingis, Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University,
author of works such as The Imperative and Abuses, and translator of
numerous works including Levinas and Merleau-Ponty, will be giving a paper
in this session.
We hope for interest from people in the areas of:
Therapeutic spaces;
The place(s) of objecthood and memory;
The practices of everyday life;
Phenomenology of place;
Sensuous geographies;
Emotional geographies;
Psychoanalysis, memory and place;
Consumption and corporeality
Intimacy, sexuality;
Sonority; Rhythmanalysis;
Non-visual geographies
Visual geographies
For further information and expressions of interest, email us at the
addresses below. Abstracts of 200 words to be sent by September 15th, 2003
(N.B.: conference registration must take place by end of August).
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Dr. Mark Paterson Dr. John Wylie
School of Cultural Studies, Department of Geography,
University of the West of England University of Sheffield
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