RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, 28-30 August 2013
Call for Papers
'Arctic Geographical Traditions? Practices, Politics and Institutions'
Organizers: Andrew Foxall and Richard Powell (both University of Oxford)
(Session is co-sponsored by History and Philosophy of Geography Research
Group and Historical Geography Research Group)
This session brings together human geographers and other scholars
interested in the Arctic in order to explore different constructions of
the region. In the nineteenth-century, competing national ethnographic
traditions emerged based on histories of exploration in the northern
latitudes. As disciplines became established in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries, Arctic spaces were approached in competing ways
across different polities and scholarly communities. This has had
consequences for the ways in which the Circumpolar Region continues to be
understood today.
This session aims to uncover some of these histories, so as to illuminate
contemporary political debates. As an envisaged Œfrontier¹, albeit one
that has moved periodically back and forth from being at the Œperiphery¹
to the Œcore¹ of global attention and geographic inquiry, the Arctic poses
a number of interesting historical, epistemological and ontological
questions for geographers.
We would welcome paper submissions from scholars working on any of the
following or related topics:
- Epistemic construction of the Arctic as a Œregion¹ or Œfrontier¹
- Conceptual and theoretical designations of Œthe Arctic¹
- The construction of Œknowledges¹ about the Circumpolar Region, including
where relevant the role of geographical institutions
- Historical discussions of national traditions of Arctic geography and/or
geopolitics and/or anthropology and/or ethnography
- Different understandings behind the contemporary geopolitics of the
Arctic
- Other papers that intersect with the session themes
Please send expressions of interest and / or title and abstract (no more
than 250 words) to Andrew Foxall ([log in to unmask]) by Monday
4th February 2013.
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Dr Andrew Foxall
Lecturer in Human Geography
School of Geography
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland, UK
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/Staff/AcademicStaff/DrAndrewFoxall/
Office Tel.: +44 02890 97 3360
ESRC PostDoctoral Fellow
School of Geography and the Environment
Oxford University Centre for the Environment
South Parks Road
Oxford
OX1 3QY
http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/afoxall.html
Office Tel.: +44 01865 275835
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