Call for Papers
Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, Washington DC April 14-18, 2010
Session: Critical Geopolitical Histories of the Cold War
Session organisers: Sean Carter (Exeter University), Alasdair Pinkerton (Royal Holloway, London)
Twenty years have now passed since the fall of the Berlin wall and scholars from across the academy are offering critical reflections on both that event in 1989, and the era ‘the wall’ came to symbolize: the Cold War. And yet the relationship between critical geopolitical scholarship and the Cold War as historical period is an ambiguous one. Whilst critical geopolitics as a distinct approach to the understanding and analysis of global politics emerged in the context of Cold War geopolitical strategies, it did not do so until shortly before the collapse of that world order. Critical Geopolitics then, has largely developed in a post-Cold War context that has, of late, become dominated by the Global War on Terror. The Cold War period remains, however, a fruitful area of research for historians and others, not least because of the increasing availability of previously classified documents. In this session we aim to brig together those working on what might be termed Critical Geopolitical Histories of the Cold War. We welcome relevant abstracts on any topic related to this purposefully broad theme, but would be particularly interested in papers that explore;
• Popular geopolitics and the Cold War
• Geopolitical strategy
• Everyday life and ‘banal geographies’ in the Cold War
• The Cold War and the Developing (Third) World
• Geopolitical knowledge, ‘area studies’ and the Cold War
• Nature and Environment in the Cold War
Please submit your abstracts to both session organisers by October 14th 2009, in the required AAG format and style (http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2010/papers.htm).
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Dr Sean Carter
Lecturer in Human Geography
Department of Geography
University of Exeter, UK
+44 (0)1392 264473
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