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CFP: New Directions in Critical Geopolitics
Session Organizers: Laura Jones and Daniel Sage (University of Wales,
Aberystwyth)
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 17-21 April 2007, San
Francisco, California
This session seeks contributions that challenge the critical geopolitics
constellation to address a new set of problematics of writing the global.
It aims to provide a platform for the growing body of research that is
reinvigorating the field of critical geopolitics by engaging with
innovative conceptual and empirical directions, including:
·Conceptual engagement with what can loosely be termed the more-than
representational theories (e.g. O Tuathail 2003; Carter & McCormack, 2006);
·Innovative examinations of circuits of alternative geopolitical
epistemologies such as biography, conspiracy theory, audiences, the body,
protest, poetry, music and spectacle; (e.g Dodds 200 6; Macdonald, 2006;
Macfarlane & Hay, 2003)
·A critical geopolitics of American New Imperialism, that foregrounds the
violently visceral (though sometimes paradoxically pleasurable)
machinations of hegemonic neo-liberalism and moral universalism (e.g. Falah
et al, 2006; Roberts et al, 2003; O Tuathail, 2005).
These interwoven conceptual and empirical foci have paved the way for
fruitful re-imaginings of keenl y debated concepts, methodologies and
objects of analysis in critical geopolitics research, including notions of
discourse, knowledge, the nation-state, transcendental subjectivity,
visuality, film, representation, power and narrative. At the same time they
have introduced new themes of debate into the rubric of critical
geopolitics, such as assemblages of desire, becomings of non(human),
performance, affect/percept, conspiracy theory and sensation a diverse
milieu that opens up possibilities for thinking through a nascent critical
geopolitics of the affective, performative and the sublime.
In order to explore these themes, abstracts are sought on topics such as:
·Performance and critical geopolitics
·Post 9/11 critical geopolitics
·Innovative methodologies within critical geopolitics
(e.g. ethnography, audience reception theories, auto/biography)
·Critical geopolitics of affect/the sublime
·The use of alternative epistemologies (e.g . conspiracy theory, biography,
the body)
·The sensual body and the rehearsal of geopolitics, (e.g. violence, gesture
and music)
·Critical geopolitics and spectacle
Abstracts (250 words maximum) should be sent by Friday 29th September to
either of the organizers:
Daniel Sage ([log in to unmask])
Laura Jones ([log in to unmask])
Once accepted, presenters will need to register for the conference and
submit their pape r at the AAG website (www.aag.org) and provide the
session organizers with their conference ID number. More information on the
AAG San Francisco Meeting can be found at
(http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/SF2007/call4papers.cfm).
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