CALL FOR PAPERS: SPECTRO-GEOGRAPHIES
Sponsored by: SCGRG / HPGRG / HGRG
ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY WITH THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH
GEOGRAPHERS ANNUAL CONFERENCE.
ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, LONDON, 2005.
The allegorical figure of the spectre has been used in a number of
creative and imaginative ways. It may signify complex relations between
absence, presence, the material and the immaterial, space, place, time
and memory. Yet a definitive 'typology of hauntings' in geography has
yet to be constructed. This session is an attempt to investigate what a
nascent 'spectral turn' within the humanities / social science might
mean for geography as a discipline and the possible emancipatory uses of
spectral vocabularies within geography. Papers are sought that attempt
to draw together a range of topics that could be considered 'spectral',
and wider theorizations of spectrality, space, and social life. We are
also eager for papers that utilize the works of key thinkers such as
Marx, Benjamin and Derrida.
Papers exploring the following themes are encouraged:
*The sublime / gothic / uncanny aspects of place - the 'ghostliness of
place'
*Absent-presence / proximity and distance and (post)modernity
*Phantasmagorias of late modernity / urban life / commodity fetishism
after Benjamin and Marx
*'Spectropolitics' and 'hauntology' after Derrida.
*Non-linear conceptualizations of space and time
*The philosophical inheritance of geographical thought - e.g. the
theories, people and practices that 'haunt' geography / representational
conventions and geographical methodologies
*Enlightenment legacies within geography, non ocular-centric knowledges
and recent attempts to make geography enigmatic
*Methodologies that attempt to measure the immeasurable
*Geographies of missing persons and lost identities
*Ghosts, alterity and incommunicability
* Unaddressed injustice and representations of subaltern voices /
marginal others
*The management of aporia and loss within social relations
*The commodification of the supernatural
*The role of the supernatural in dissonant landscape narratives
*Heritage, tourism, place marketing and ghosts
*Psychoanalysis / genealogical family spooks and skeletons in the
closet
*Spirituality and space
*Death, memory, history and material culture
Please send abstracts of no more than 150 words by 10th January 2005.
We welcome informal enquiries / statements of interest.
If sufficient interest is registered in this topic, we would be
interested in pursuing publication possibilities - e.g. an edited
collection.
Organizers:
Joanne Maddern (Dundee) [log in to unmask]
Pete Adey (Aberystwyth) [log in to unmask]
Joanne Maddern
Lecturer in Human Geography
Department of Geography
Nethergate
Dundee
DD1 4HN
Email: [log in to unmask]
Telephone: 01382 344786
Facsimile: 01382 344434 (International: +44 1382 344434)
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