*CALL FOR PAPERS*
POSTCOLONIAL GEOGRAPHIES
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A two-day conference organised by the History and Philosophy of
Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG.
25 and 26 June 1998 at the University of Southampton
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This international and interdisciplinary conference will address the
geographical importance of postcolonial critiques. The conference
themes include (i) the impact of imperialism on non-'western'
cultures; (ii) destabilising the hegemony of imperial power and
knowledge; and (iii) 'decolonizing the mind' from the ethnocentrism
of dominant white, Western cultures and imperialisms. Papers should
be grounded and contextualized in historically and geographically
specific ways and might address: imaginative geographies of empire;
geographies of decolonization and the nature of the 'postcolonial
condition'; subaltern spaces; spaces of home, nation and empire; the
challenges and limits of postcolonial geographies; transnational
politics; and postcolonial critiques of development discourse.
Abstracts of 300 words should be submitted by 1st March 1998 to
either Dr. Alison Blunt, Department of Geography, University of
Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ (email:
[log in to unmask]) or Dr. Cheryl McEwan, School of Geography,
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT (email:
[log in to unmask]). Please contact Alison or Cheryl for further
information about Postcolonial Geographies. The registration deadline
is 30 April 1998.
Costs:
Registration: stlg 25 (waged), stlg 5 postgraduate and other unwaged
Full conference package (including accommodation and meals): stlg 76
(waged), stlg 56 postgraduate and other unwaged.
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Cheryl McEwan
School of Geography
The University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT
UK
Phone: 0121 414 7261 (secr. 0121 5543/44)
Email: [log in to unmask]
Fax: 0121 414 5528
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