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CFP RGS-IBG 2019: More-than-human haunted landscapes: Trace-ing binaries of hope/desolation

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Adam Searle <[log in to unmask]>

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Adam Searle <[log in to unmask]>

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**Apologies for cross-posting** 

Call for Papers: RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2019, 28th - 30th August
2019, London 

MORE-THAN-HUMAN HAUNTED LANDSCAPES: TRACE-ING BINARIES OF
HOPE/DESOLATION 

(Co-sponsored by Social and Cultural Geography Research Group and the
Postgraduate Forum). 

Convened by: Adam Searle - University of Cambridge; and Jonathon
Turnbull - University of Cambridge 

Abstract 

Landscapes bear traces of hope and desolation. They are at once the
physical manifestation of geologic time and the coming together of
living and nonliving things, reminders of the past through iterations of
the future. These traces haunt landscapes, they are active and
inter/active of what Derrida would name hauntologies, methodological
invitations to consider what is through attention to what isn't.
Landscapes are haunted in multifarious ways (e.g. through extinction,
nuclear disaster, contamination) and the traces of haunting events
refute the concept of singularity in meaning. What do haunted landscapes
have in common? Their traces are material, for example, through
geological imprints or altered ecological relations; but they are
simultaneously virtual, culturally and affectively powerful, troublesome
and stimulating. Haunted landscapes allow the binary of hope/desolation
to function, often bringing promise with despair, engendering a
dialectic between utopia and dystopia. In the Anthropocene - the era in
which humans become a planet-changing force - it is often non-humans
that haunt our landscapes. This is reflected in the way the Anthropocene
is also the era of the sixth mass extinction. With this in mind, we
invite papers interested in the traces which allow the binary of
hope/desolation to function, asking how we can learn from each empirical
haunting. In particular we encourage research at the intersections of
human/animal/plant/geological worlds, and how the constellations of
these more-than-human shared existences inspire novel modes of
understanding geographies of landscape, and the interrelations of
existence and environment. 

We invite contributions in all empirical areas. They could explore: 

 	* The theoretical potential of contaminated or wasteland geographies,
particularly in more-than-human terms;
 	* the agency of the environment and the question of abandonment on
whose terms;
 	* the role of extinctions (of vitalities, languages, practices) and
their memories in engagements of landscapes and their temporalities;
 	* hauntologies and their implications for the Anthropocene.

Some key readings include: 

 	* Edensor, Tim. (2005) The ghosts of industrial ruins: Ordering and
disordering memory in excessive Space. Environment and Planning D:
Society and Space 23: 829-849.
 	* Gandy, Matthew. (2013) Marginalia: Aesthetics, ecology, and urban
wastelands. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 103:
1301-1316.
 	* Haraway, Donna Jeanne. (2016) Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin
in the Chthulucene, Durham: Duke University Press.
 	* Kirksey, S Eben, Shapiro, Nicholas and Brodine, Maria. (2013) Hope
in blasted landscapes. Social Science Information 52: 228-256.
 	* Tsing, Anna. (2015) The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the
Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, Princeton: Princeton University
Press.
 	* Tsing, Anna, Swanson, Heather, Gan, Elaine, et al. (2017) Arts of
Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
 	* van Dooren, Thom. (2014) Flight ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of
Extinction, New York: Columbia University Press.
 	* VanderMeer, Jeff. (2014) Annihilation, New York: Fsg Originals.
 	* VanderMeer, Jeff. (2014) Authority, New York: Fsg Originals.
 	* Vandermeer, Jeff. (2014) Acceptance. Fsg Originals.
 	* Wylie, John. (2009) Landscape, absence and the geographies of love.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 34: 275-289.

Please send abstracts of approximately 250 words to Adam Searle
([log in to unmask]) and Jonathon Turnbull ([log in to unmask]) by midnight on
the 1st February 2019. In addition, we welcome submissions of
non-traditional formats, for example video or visual submissions. Please
don't hesitate to get in touch with any questions or comments you may
have! and happy new year! 

-- 

Adam Searle
PhD Candidate in Geography

University of Cambridge

622 King's College, CB21ST
mobile: +44 7929761497
twitter: @admsrl

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