Final CFP RGS-IBG 2011 Annual Meeting, 31st August - 2nd September 2011, London.
EVERYDAY GEOGRAPHIES OF PEACE
Convened by:
Philippa Williams (University of Cambridge) and Fiona McConnell (Newcastle University/ University of Cambridge)
Sponsored by:
Geographies of justice working group -- http://www.geographiesofjustice.org.uk/
Type of session: paper
Session abstract:
In examining processes and practices of peace and non-violence in the everyday, this panel seeks to offer space for discussing a new agenda which spans research across human geography. Whilst critically engaging and instructive, the recent proliferation of writing on the politics and affects of the 'War on Terror' from macro to micro-political scales, consistently foregrounds violence and marginalises peace. Recent calls have emerged from within the discipline to engage with issues of non-violence and co-operation as enabling processes that can inform spaces of possibility across geopolitical scales (see Kearns 2009; Megoran 2010). This session will build on these sentiments and seeks to conceptualise notions of 'everyday peace' not in terms of absences, but as processes and practices that are constituted through their active reproduction. As such, papers are welcomed which seek to explore what is meant by peace, how it is understood within different contexts, who peace is for, and how peace is differentially constructed, materialised and interpreted through space and time
We particularly encourage papers which consider everyday geographies of peace from and across a range of spaces and scales. Discussion might touch upon, but is not limited to, issues of:
- mechanics of neighbouring and coexistence
- non-violent protest and the politics of social change
- non-violence and acts of citizenship
- everyday peace and the politics of emotion
- geographies of friendship, tolerance and co-operation
- ethics and affects of non-violence
- theoretical and methodological approaches to studying everyday geographies of peace
We're looking to fill a couple of spaces on a second panel. Please get in touch if interested.
Abstracts (150-200 words) by FRIDAY 11th FEBRUARY 2011 to:
Philippa Williams [log in to unmask] and Fiona McConnell [log in to unmask]
Thank you!
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