Apologies for cross-posting. Please see our second call for papers.
2nd call for papers for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Cardiff, 28-31 August 2018
“Theorising space and spatiality in digital geographies”
Sponsored by: the Digital Geographies Working Group (DGWG)
Session organisers: Clancy Wilmott (University of Manchester) and Emma Fraser (University of Manchester)
Despite the establishment of a field of digital geographies (Ash, Kitchin and Leszczynski, 2016) to frame questions around the geographies “through, produced by, and of the digital”, there has been less said about philosophical consequences for theories of space and spatiality. Digital spatialities are characterised by multiplicities which intersect, connect and coform: for instance, hybridities, geometries, image-spaces, affects, politics, audio-visuality, interfaces, fluidities, automations, codes, technologies, practices, exchanges, lives and bodies. Across these analyses, theories of space and spatiality have been complicated, extended and refigured as digital technologies have opened up new critiques towards, for instance, the traditions of the Cartesian, Kantian, Newtonian and the Leibnzian. Alongside these critiques, new room is being made for post-structural, feminist, new materialist, post-phenomenological, object-oriented and hybrid approaches towards geography through, by and of the digital.
This call aims to bring together an interdisciplinary colloquium of papers that either address how traditional theories of space and spatiality might work in the realm of digital geographies, or which propose new or extended ways of thinking about space drawn from the affordances of digital environments and digital technologies. This includes addressing what the digital is and how it operates spatially, using spatial theory to read the digital, and proposing new and radical ways of understanding digital space from digital and non-digital spatial theorists. We encourage papers which engage spatial theory, including space as territory (Elden), open (Massey), modern (Benjamin), trialectic (Lefebvre/Soja), experienced (Tuan), bio-political (Foucault), geometric (Olsson, Farinelli), visual (Rose), technological (Stiegler, Heidegger), fluid (Castells), social (Bourdieu), poetic (Bachelard), and practiced (de Certeau, Thrift).
Examples of topics might include (but are certainly not limited to) a consideration of theories of space and spatiality in:
• digital 3D landscapes and models
• digital photography and imaging
• augmented and virtual reality
• geographic information science and digital mapping
• mobile media and wearable technologies
• algorithmic spaces
• driverless cars or robotics
• drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles
• smart cities and urban sensors
• digital games and play
• historical or media archaeological approaches
Please send submissions (titles, abstracts (250 words) and author details) to: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] by 31st January 2018.
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