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Spatialising the Social Sciences in Postcolonial Contexts
Friday, May 5 & 6 2017
Ertegun House,
37A St Giles St
University of Oxford
This workshop aims to create a platform for debate between scholars critically engaging the concept of space in postcolonial contexts.
The realisation that geography matters has encouraged social sciences and humanities scholars towards what has come to be called the spatial turn in a variety of disciplines. This term refers to a scholarly shift away from conceptually and analytically valuing time over space, and away from an understanding of space as a mere container giving shape to broader phenomena. These disciplinary changes have had a particular impact on the study of societies in post-colonial contexts. Studies have shown the importance of considering space when analysing, for example, forms of popular resistance and political transformation (Bayat, 1997, 2010; Gunning and Zvi Baron, 2012; Combes, Garibay, and Goirand (eds.), 2015; Oslender, 2016); lived experiences at urban and social margins (Doraï, 2005, Doraï and Puig, 2012; Dias, 2013); and much more.
This workshop will tackle such questions in depth and provide a cross-disciplinary platform for exchanges between scholars working at the intersections of geography and other social sciences or humanities disciplines. As Edward Soja (2011) has observed, postcolonial studies and human geography have always enjoyed an intimate entanglement. The spatial turn, however, as he has also pointed out, has provoked new concerns within and in relation to postcolonial scholarship. In postcolonial countries, struggles over territory – physical, epistemological, cultural, corporeal and others – have meant that scholars from or working on such contexts were paying attention to space and place long before the spatial turn (Noyes, 1992; Chambers and Curti, 1996; Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin, 1994; Bhabha, 1994; Bhabha, 1990). How, nonetheless, has the increased attention to and production of critical spatial perspectives throughout the humanities and social sciences affected the study of space in the postcolonial world? As Soja writes, has it allowed for critical moves away from binaries like colonizer/colonized, East/West, North/South, capitalism/socialism? What other, non-dichotomous ways of thinking and narrating the postcolonial condition does the spatial turn enable?
Attendance is free but registration via this link is required: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spatialising-the-social-sciences-in-postcolonial-contexts-tickets-33984197650
Paper abstracts can be viewed at this link: http://www.ertegun.ox.ac.uk/sites/ertegun/files/documents/Program%20workshop%20May%202017_0.pdf
FRIDAY, MAY 5
10:00 – 10:30: Registration
10:30 – 10:45: Opening Remarks
11:00 – 12:30: Opening Session – The Postcolonial and the Spatial Turn
Chair: Dr. Alex Rhys-Taylor, Goldsmiths, Department of Sociology
Speakers: Sophie Chamas and Alex Mahoudeau
12:30 – 1:30: Lunch
1:45 – 3:45: Panel 1 – Space and the Other
Chair: Dr. Dominic Davies, University of Oxford, Faculty of English, Language and Literature
Speakers:
Approaching the Collective Action of Youth with Immigrant Backgrounds Living in French Suburbs through the “capitaux d’autochnie” – Foued Nasri
Being Young in a Dutch Urban Neighbourhood: Postcolonial Perspectives and Spatial Resistances – Kathrine van den Bogert
Analysing the Dialectic of Urban Exclusion/Inclusion of a Palestinian Refugee Camp in the Beirut Suburbs – Nicole Tabet
Beyond Megacity Fringes: Exploring 'Infrastructures' of India’s IT Oriented New Services Economy in a Second Tier City – Aditya Ray
3:45 – 4:15: Coffee Break
4:30 – 6:30: Panel 2 – Space and Epistemology
Chair: Dr. Sara Fregonese, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Speakers:
Thinking the Maghrib as an Epistemological Rupture: The Moroccan Post-Independence Efforts to Decolonize the Social Sciences – Idriss Jebari
Spatialising the Habitus: Bourdieu’s Uprooting Theory in Postcolonial Algeria – Smaine Djella
Banking Kiosks: Places of Exclusion or Inclusion? – Katharina Wischer
SATURDAY, MAY 6
12:00 – 2:00: Panel 3 – Space and the Institution
Chair: Dr. Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch, Université Grenoble Alpes, L'Institut de Géographie Alpine
Speakers:
Exploring the Epistemologies of Territory and Territoriality within the Chilean Student Movement – Ivette Hernandez Santibanez
The Urban Process and University in East Asia: A Comparative Study of Korea and Singapore – Do Young Oh
No Place for an NGO ‘Outside the Parliament’: Spatialisations of Party Politics and Non-Governmental Organisations in a Ghanaian Informal Settlement – Dagna Rams
(In)visible Bodies: The National Campaign to ‘Eradicate’ Female Genital Cutting in Eritrea – Hannah Amanuel
2:00 – 3:00: Lunch
3:15 – 5:15: Closed roundtable with workshop participants and chairs
Sophie Chamas
DPhil Candidate in Oriental Studies
St Antony’s College
University of Oxford
OX2 6JF
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