RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, 27-29 August 2008
“Locating Knowledge: alternative spaces, networks and histories”
(Sponsored by the Historical Geography Research Group)
Organised by Ruth Craggs and Hannah Neate (University of Nottingham)
Call for papers:
Studies concerned with situating knowledge have often considered formal
scientific knowledge cultures and their attendant practices, networks and
spaces (Withers, 2007, Livingstone, 2003). This session aims to broaden
this field to consider both alternative networks and spaces of knowledge
production and those with a more contemporary historical focus.
Alternative forms of knowledge production can be thought about as local,
national and international in reach, covering the buildings that were used
as meeting spaces, social and cultural practices that were fostered in
such spaces, and the imaginative practices that were used to promote
and/or contest dominant visions of places and spaces.
We are particularly interested in: thinking through artistic, political,
historical and geographical forms of knowledge; exploring not only formal
governmental, academic or scientific networks but also spaces which fall
outside of these categories; and exploring alternative ways of
conceptualising the production of knowledge, e.g. via performance,
material culture.
Papers are invited on the following themes (this list is not exhaustive):
Networks of knowledge in provincial towns as well as metropolitan areas
The creation of artistic, political and social knowledge cultures around
certain informal and institutional networks
Other spaces in which knowledge is produced (libraries, retail outlets,
the bar, the home)
The people involved with circulating ideas through these networks making
consideration of the specificities of class, gender and ethnicity
The sociability of knowledge and the practices that went alongside
knowledge production (conversation, interaction, publication)
The applicability of current theoretical approaches to these alternative
spaces
If you are interested in presenting a paper in this session, please submit
a title and abstract (of no more than 250 words) to Ruth Craggs
([log in to unmask]) or Hannah Neate (LGXHLN1nottingham.ac.uk) by
Friday 1st February.
Ruth Craggs/Hannah Neate:
School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD. Tel.
0115 951 5452 or, 0115 951 5384
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