The Political Geographies of Camps
Convened by: Irit Katz, University of Cambridge; James D. Sidaway,
National University of Singapore.
Discussant: Claudio Minca, Unviersity of Wageningen.
Camps have proliferated. Formal and informal camps constructed for/by
refugees, undocumented migrants, asylum seekers and Roma/Travellers,
appear in Europe. Tens of thousands live in camps in Africa and Asia.
Elsewhere; in Oceania and the Caribbean migrants and detainees of the
‘war on terror’ are held in camps. Camps create multifaceted geographies
of displacement and movement, asylum and refuge. Although camps are
frequently created as emergency spaces for the control and management of
people, they often become sites of suspended temporariness, a continuing
state of exception. This session will explore the varied aspects of
camps and examine them from different angles; their global political
roles, their spatial vocabulary and materiality, the ways they are
created, governed and function as spaces of everyday life, and the new
forms of politics and political subjects that emerge in them. Case
studies and other papers that develop perspectives for comparative
research and critical thinking on these varied political geographies of
camps will be welcome in this session.
Please send abstracts (max. 250 characters in the title incl. spaces and
max. 500 words in the abstract text) through the on-line registration
system by ***27th January 2014***
The session will follow special session "Camps. Geographies of the
Sovereign Exception" -
Claudio Minca and interventions of Franco Farinelli and Vladimir
Kolossov
(co-organized by the IGU Commission on Political Geography and the
journal Political Geography).
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More details about registration at:
http://www.igu2014.org/index.php?page=registration
More details about abstract submission:
http://www.igu2014.org/index.php?page=call_for_papers
Check the website for the Commission for more information about the
sessions at
http://www.igu-cpg.unimib.it/?p=992
and
http://www.igu-cpg.unimib.it/?p=974
General information about IGIU 2014 Krakow:
The final list of sessions is available at the conference webpage:
http://www.igu2014.org/index.php?page=programme
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Irit Katz
Department of Architecture
University of Cambridge
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