Dear all,
A reminder that the deadline is tomorrow for this. We're particularly interested in feminist, queer, and postcolonial approaches to the emergence and taking place of contemporary populisms (whilst obviously welcoming abstracts from a wide range of approaches),
Best wishes,
Ben and Oliver
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From: ANDERSON, BEN
Sent: 17 January 2017 15:36
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Subject: RGS-IBG 2017 CFP: A Populist Moment?
Dear all,
Please find below a CFP for the RGS-IBG, London, 2017
Session Title: A Populist Moment?
Organisers: Ben Anderson and Oliver Belcher
A Populist Moment?
As right-wing parties and movements gather strength across Europe and the United States, it has become commonplace to portray such movements as “populist.” The term as it is currently used is vague, insofar as the defining characteristic of “populism” seems to be any opposition to an equally generic “Establishment.” In its mediatized iteration, what makes some current populisms “right-wing” is an overt hostility to cosmopolitan liberalism and, perhaps, a deference to images of “strong men” who pose threats to nominally democratic societies. At the same time and in complex relation to some of the same events and conditions, “left-wing” populisms have emerged that enact ‘the people’ differently, with different attachments and investments. In this session, we want to unpack populisms in their ideological, affective, racial, biopolitical, historical, and geographical registers. We are interested not only in the possibilities and limits of “populism” as an explanatory category for social phenomena, but also in how populisms are enacted, in their material and affective (and often violent) manifestations in everyday life, and in how populisms coexist with other partially connected geo-political formations (capitalism, settler colonialism, (neo)liberalism, and so on).
Themes might include:
· The racial logics of populisms
· The everyday life of populisms
· The affective and emotional geographies of populisms
· Populist figures and modes of authority and legitimization
· The relation(s) between crisis and the emergence of populisms
Please send abstracts (200) to Ben Anderson ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Oliver Belcher ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by 3rd February 2017.
Professor Ben Anderson
Department of Geography
Durham University
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