Apologies for cross-postings
For those of you in or near to London, this lecture might be of interest.
John Pickles from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill will be
delivering the Third David M Smith lecture on Thursday 23 November at
6pm in the Clinincal Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft Building, QMUL.
*New Cartographies of the Borderlands: On the Geographies of
Democracy-to-Come*
In 1994, David Smith suggested that we needed to re-place social justice
at the heart of human geography. In the intervening years, his concerns
for the geographies of social inequality and well-being, for belonging
and dispossession, and for the hardening of the boundaries between those
who have and those who do not have social and economic rights have, it
seems, intensified into a general condition. This lecture responds to
David’s impulse to re-center social justice at the heart of the
geographical project and to geographies own subsequent deepening of
those commitments. It will outline some of the emerging geographies of
this general condition, what some have called the new ‘European
apartheid’, and draw on recent challenges to the ways in which ‘Europe’
has been able to respond to the broadening of its own projects of social
inclusion and distributive justice.
The lecture begins with Jacques Derrida’s characterization of the need
for an ‘Other heading’ for Europe and Etienne Balibar’s call for a new
geography of the borderlands that takes seriously the possibilities and
the necessities of transnational citizenship. Particular attention is
paid to the ways in which European social and art movements are
beginning to develop and deploy new cartographies of border spaces,
alternative economies, and social networks to re-map and re-vision the
complex geographies of contemporary European citizenship.
If you would like to come and join us for this annual event, please
contact Dr. Marta Timoncini on [log in to unmask]
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Professor Adrian Smith
Department of Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
tel: 020 7882 7844
fax: 020 8981 6276
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