Call for papers, Annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers,
7-11 March 2006, Chicago, IL
Title: Moving ethical geographies
Convenors: Nick Clarke (University of Southampton) and Paul Cloke
(University of Bristol)
From the mid 1990s onwards, geography and related disciplines have been
taking something of a ‘normative’ or ‘moral’ turn. This turn raises a
number of questions for geographers. What are the spatial dimensions of
social justice? Do places have their own moral or normative geographies?
How are places associated with “ethical” affects and affordances? What
responsibilities do we have towards nature, the environment, and future
generations? What are the ethics of concepts, techniques, and
representations used and circulated by geographers? What are the effects
of distance on practices of responsibility? This last question, often
described as ‘the problem of distant strangers’, has particularly animated
geographers in recent years.
This series of paper and panel sessions brings the metaphor of ‘movement’ to
ethical geographies. It asks for contributions along one or more of the
following lines:
1) Moving ethical geographies forward. Contributions along this line will
involve philosophically informed reflections on the past, present, and
future of ethical geographies.
2) Moving ethical geographies into new spaces. Contributions along this
line will consider new spaces and practices of engagement for ethical
geographies in all their breadth and diversity.
3) Ethical geographies in a world of motion. Contributions along this line
will view ethical geographies through the lens of globalisation,
transnationalism, and mobility.
4) Ethical geographies in a world of emotion. Contributions along this line
will trace interconnections between emotional geographies and ethical
geographies to consider the significance of “being moved”.
Expressions of interest and/or abstracts should be sent to Nick Clarke
([log in to unmask]) or Paul Cloke ([log in to unmask]) no later than
15 September 2005.
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