>> Subject: Info about a geopolitical session in the 5th ICCG conference in
>> Mumbai, Dec 2007
>>
>>
>>> Dear colleagues, I'd like to inform you that I'm trying to organize a
>>> specific geopolitical session during the 5th International Conference
>>> in Critical Geography to be held in Mumbai next December.
>>> (http://www.5thiccg.org/)
>>>
>>> I send you the brief presentation of the session. If you or some of your
>>> colleagues or students could have some interest in it, please, invite
>>> them to contact me.
>>>
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>>>
>>> The aim is to try to be concrete and to debate about possible solutions
>>> and not merely to analyse case-studies/study-cases.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Fabrizio
>>> www.fabrizio-eva.info
>>>
>>>> *“How to solve geopolitical problems without being imperialist”*
>>>>
>>>> The session promotes a debate on current geopolitical crisis areas
>>>> (Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Israel/Palestine, Darfur, Iran and
>>>> others). The aim is to deal especially with concrete issues, not just
>>>> with theoretical discussions. Are critical geographers able to go
>>>> beyond being “critical” and suggest concrete solutions to current
>>>> geopolitical dynamics? For a start, critical geography could intervene
>>>> more effectively in geopolitical crises by looking into actually lived
>>>> local experiences in regions of geopolitical crisis, without reducing
>>>> social organisation in a territory to the existence of a state, without
>>>> assuming any exclusive belonging to places, and without being
>>>> hoodwinked by institutional representations and/or superstructures.
>>>> Presentations are invited that are concerned with formulating concrete
>>>> solutions based on actually lived situations and apart from the
>>>> involvement of the state and other (international) institutions.
>>>>
>>>> Fabrizio Eva, university of Venice
>>>>
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>>>
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