Call for Papers: TECHNONATURE SESSIONS
2006 Meeting of The American Association of Geographers, March 7-11 2006,
Chicago, IL. http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/index.cfm
Organisers:
Erik Swyngedouw (University of Oxford)
Damian White (James Madison University).
Chris Wilbert (Anglia Polytechnic University).
Call for Papers:
In an era marked by accelerating environmental change,
deepening battles over eco-technological and
bio/nano/medico technological transformations, the nature of ‘Nature’ and
the politics of the environment appears increasingly to be up for grabs.
Ongoing debates concerning productions of nature, contested natures, or
socio-natures continue to draw attention to the irreducibly cultural and
political qualities of contemporary socio-environmental relations and
processes.
Elsewhere, Haraway’s cyborgs and 'companion species', or Latour’s emphasis
on 'quasi subjects/objects' and 'actants' continue to stress that
hybridity and the complex spaces of the inbetween is the place of
(a)modern politics.
In these proposed sessions we would like to reflect on the
extent to which technonatural, hybrid and cyborg
discursive practices continue to be constructive and productive means to
disrupt and rework environmental politics and debate.
We would like to draw colleagues together whose work is attempting to
develop critical geographies of changing environment-technology-society
relations.
Topics of interest might include (but are not limited to):
• Technonatural landscapes and environmental histories;
• Urban/suburban technonatures;
• Technonatural Disocurses and the Politics of ‘Race’, Ethnicity,
Sexuality, Gender
• Techonatural human / nonhuman bodies;
• The politics and pathologies of technonatural time/spaces;
• Limits and limitations of technonatural and cyborg discourses.
Expressions of interest and abstracts By: 3 October
should be sent to:
Erik Swyngedouw, Geography and the Environment, Oxford University
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Damian White, Dept of Sociology and Anthropology, James Madison University
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Dr. Chris Wilbert,
Department of Planning,
Anglia Polytechnic University,
Bishop Hall Lane,
Chelmsford,
Essex CM1 1SQ
ENGLAND.
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