UPDATED INFORMATION ON PROCESS FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
A CPF for planned sessions on Situated Knowledge Production at the IAG
Conference, 3-6 July 2011 (University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia).
The session is sponsored by the Urban Geography Study Group of IAG.
Situated knowledge production
At least since Haraway (1991), the idea of situated knowledge-knowledge
as inevitably contextual and embodied, shaped through specific
technological and social networks, always partial, constructed and never
finished-has had currency in geography. Yet, notwithstanding recent
treatments of situated knowledge practices (LeHeron and Lewis 2010,
Barnes and Sheppard 2009, Robinson 2006), close conceptual, theoretical
and empirical scrutiny of the idea and its practice has lagged. This
session aims to assemble researchers working across a diversity of
contexts to reflect on emergent understandings of situated knowledge,
its practice, potential and accountabilities. Contributions may cover a
diverse range of theoretical perspectives-such as performativity,
poststructural political economy, more-than-human geographies,
indigenous epistemologies-and may arise from ‘pure’, collaborative
and community-engaged research contexts. Questions that contributors may
consider include, but are not limited to:
● what a commitment to situated knowledge involves
● methodological and thinking practices for situated knowledge
production
● sites for situated knowledge production
● accountabilities involved in performing situated knowledge
● the circulation of situated knowledges
● the political possibilities of situated knowledges
Eugene McCann (SFU, Vancouver) will act as a discussant on the papers
contributed to the session.
Session Organisers:
Richard Le Heron ([log in to unmask])
Kathy Mee ([log in to unmask])
Pauline McGuirk ([log in to unmask])
Karen Fisher ([log in to unmask])
Please a) submit your abstract directly, via email, to all four session
organiser/s, by March 1. You will ALSO need to submit to the
conference's online abstract submission site on the IAG conference
website:
http://www.uow.edu.au/conferences/2011/iag/index.htm
Thanks
Pauline
Professor Pauline McGuirk
Director, Centre for Urban and Regional Studies
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/research-centre/curs/
Discipline of Geography and Environmental Studies
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
The University of Newcastle
Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/environ-life-science/geography/index.html
Ph: 00 61 (2) 49215097
Fax: 00 61 (2) 49215877
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