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WE HAVE ONE PLACE AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING AAG SESSION.
If you would like to take part in this session please send your abstract
(of no more than 250 words) and AAG pin number to either Fiona
Smith ([log in to unmask]) or Nichola Wood ([log in to unmask]) by
the end of the day.
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Call for Papers for the 2008 AAG Annual Meeting, Boston, April 15-19
Organisers:
Fiona Smith (University of Dundee) and Nichola Wood (University of Leeds)
Session Title:
Alternative Nationalisms: (Un)Doing National Spaces of Belonging
In this session we seek to bring together papers exploring a range of
practices which challenge dominant nationalisms and seek to establish
different ways of 'doing' the nation. Possible themes might include (but
are not limited to):
. cultural forms and practices, such as music, art, commemoration,
and language.
. regional and sub-national claims for alternative definitions of
the nation;
. community and/or popular movements developing alternative
expressions of the nation;
. rejections of nationalist definitions of belonging;
. political campaigns promoting the inclusion of excluded social
groups within definitions of national belonging;
. radical (re)assertions of nationalist politics.
We ask how such practices challenge dominant nationalisms, at which scales
such processes operate, and how this 'undoing' and/or 're-doing' of the
nation might be spatialised. We also explore how and to what extent these
practices provide the potential for alternative 'doings' of national
belonging that move beyond hegemonic (re)productions of the nation.
Crucially we also seek critical assessments of the entangled relations of
domination/resistance involved in such practices and the extent to
which 'alternatives' to dominant nationalisms entail progressive and
inclusive politics, or develop new exclusions in refigured national spaces
of belonging.
For further information on the AAG annual meeting please see:
http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2008/papers.htm
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