** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION **
AAG Meetings, Honolulu, Hawai’i - March 1999.
We are in the process of organizing sessions for the 1999 AAG meetings
entitled: Transcending the Tyranny of Difference? Negotiating Critical
Geographies of Inclusion. If you have, or are considering, a paper which
addresses any of the issues touched upon in the outline below and might be
interested in joining such a session please contact one of us - preferably
by e-mail - asap. We are also hoping to convene a panel session following
the paper presentations to further explore these issues and are seeking
interested participants - possibly those who are interested but committed
to present a paper elsewhere. For further information on either of these
options please contact one of us at the addresses listed at the end of this
message.
Transcending the Tyranny of Difference? Negotiating Critical Geographies
of Inclusion.
We have recently witnessed and experienced some grave schisms in the
politics of practicing and producing emancipatory geographies. This has
been reflected both in debates about the relationships between socialist,
feminist and other ‘critical’ geographies and in the flurry of research
documenting the fluid, fragmented and flexible nature of identity. The
focal point of much of this activity has been the concept of difference.
In this session we seek to explore ways in which we might transcend the
tyranny of difference to negotiate productive alliances across theoretical
and epistemological frontiers. We hope to extend the realms of existing
discourses to ask which differences really matter and how we might map out
emergent paradoxes which mark contemporary debates within critical
geography surrounding identity and politics. We seek papers which address
the ways in which we might start producing critical geographies of
inclusion rather than exclusion.
Questions that might arise include - but are not limited to! - the
following: Do the categories of race, class and gender offer a useful
framework for discussions of identity within geography? How might we
extend the critique of the whiteness and race-blindness in geography to
reformulate our disciplinary practice in constructive ways? On what
terrain(s) can we forge a reciprocal alliance between socialism and
feminism? Are our analytical categories, as currently conceptualized,
sufficient for productive discussion? How might we best move towards truly
inclusive and critical geographies in both theory and praxis?
Please contact either of us (below) for further details. Abstracts and
conference registration materials will be due - at the latest - by August
28, 1998 but please let us know by August 12 if you are interested in
participating in these sessions.
Minelle K. Mahtani, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, E-MAIL:
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Scott Salmon, Miami University, E-MAIL: [log in to unmask]
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s c o t t s a l m o n
department of geography &
urban and regional planning program
234 shideler hall
miami university
oxford, oh 45056
usa.
voice: 513-529-1521 (wk)
513-961-6972 (hm)
fax: 513-529-1948
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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