Dear colleagues:
Sorry for cross-posting. We would be grateful if you could share this with those who might be interested.
Thank you very much.
Galen and Yang
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Call for Papers: Association of American Geographers (AAG) 2014, Tampa, Florida
Session Title: Development and Space at China's Frontiers
Organizers: Galen Murton and Yang Yang (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Session Abstract:
Frontier has been a critical concept visited and revisited by scholars in China studies. In the social sciences, existing scholarship on the Chinese frontier has generally employed a core-periphery lens to analyze borderland peoples and marginal territories. However, new governance policies, development programs, and modern technologies are rapidly transforming the Chinese frontier in both spatial and temporal contexts. This calls for new analytical frameworks that enable us to re-conceptualize what is meant by the "Chinese frontier." Geography in particular provides valuable frameworks with which to re-consider how space, society, and culture converge in the production of China's frontiers.
The purpose of this paper session is to engage China geography in conversations with broader research on the role of Chinese governance in development at various scales. The session invites papers that investigate how China's frontiers are produced and reproduced by various techniques, knowledges, and practices of Chinese governance. In both historical and contemporary China, such processes can be found in the contexts of urban development, population management, ethno-racial relations, religious practice, environmental policy, information technology, direct foreign investment, and so forth. We highly encourage the submission of papers that critically examine how Chinese governance is extending the frontier across time and space both in the PRC and beyond its borders, including the participation and subjectivization of diverse populations from national to international scales.
Participants who are interested in this session are invited to submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to Galen Murton ([log in to unmask]) or Yang Yang ([log in to unmask]) by 1 December 2013. Please feel free to contact us with questions about the session.
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