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RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Manchester: 26-28 August 2009
(www.rgs.org/AC2009)
Call for Papers:
NARRATING LANDSCAPE AND ENVIRONMENT
Co-sponsored by the Historical Geography Research Group and the Arts and
Humanities Research Council ‘Landscape and Environment’ Programme.
Convened by Stephen Daniels (University of Nottingham) and Hayden
Lorimer (University of Glasgow)
This session will re-appraise narrative as way of shaping and arranging
our manifold understandings of landscape and environment,
both in language and in image. It asks: ‘how do we story our worlds into
shape?’, and invites different kinds of response.
We seek research presentations that:
- address matters of temporality and history in the unfolding of
landscape and environment, or the placing of processes and movement, or
the personification of livelihoods and identities, or the chronicling of
the seen and unseen.
- consider the deployment of narrative in factual histories of landscape
and environment, or its styling in map-making, or its dramatic
configuration of the imaginative worlds of lore and reverie
- comment on the scale(s) at which stories of landscape and environment
are projected
- recall expressive formations of landscape and environment in oral
traditions and storytelling
- explore the potential for narrative in widening participation in
debates on the making, meanings and changing uses of landscape and
environment
- unravel the landscaping of narrative, by considering how a
geographical perspective can contribute to broader questions of power
and knowledge in narratology
- deploy narrative as a rhythmic and expressive style, as well as the
object of research and analysis
- consider the authority given to (self) experience in narrative
accounts of landscape and environment
- chart new terrains for critique, and prospects for novel dialogue, in
narrative-led accounts of landscape and environment
Narrative experiments and creative methods in different forms (and
audio-visual formats) are welcome…
…contributors might wish to think in terms of: travellers’ tales;
theoretical histories; scientific stories; economic homilies;
topographical traditions; place memories; hearthside tales;
environmental futures; geo-biographies; bio-geographies; archival
creations; archaeological reconstructions; site designs and
installations; archetypal/ideal-type plots; meta-narratives (eden, deep
geology, palimpsest, apocalypse etc.); narrative genres (mythic, epic,
tragedy, romance, adventure, satire, melodrama, farce).
If you are interested in submitting a paper, please contact:
Hayden Lorimer [log in to unmask]
and Stephen Daniels [log in to unmask]
The deadline for submission of abstracts is *February 3rd 2009*.
Please include the following information when submitting your abstract:
Name:
Affiliation:
Contact email:
Title of proposed paper:
Abstract (no more than 250 words):
Any technical requirements (video, data projector, sound, etc.):
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