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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
HPGRG / WGSG session at the Annual Conference of the RGS-IBG,
University of Leicester, January 1999
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Feminisms and Geographies:
Theoretical Orientations and Future Directions
For many feminists, clear tensions exist between recognising both
gender and subjectivity as constructed and the strategic need to
assert gendered subjectivity. Such tensions are increasingly
articulated in spatial terms whereby gendered subjectivity both
repeats and yet denies its grounded confinement. Spatial notions of
subjectivity have inscribed gender in more contingent, unstable and
decentred terms. At the same time, spatial notions of subjectivity
have also led to an increasing call for materially grounded
representations of subjectivity and feminist politics. This session
will trace the interplay of feminisms and geographies by focusing on
representations of subjectivity both in place and across space. Papers
should address theoretical concerns with reference to material
examples and might include studies of bodies, homes, and worlds;
transnational representations of subjectivity; images of mobility and
displacement; and the spatial performativity of subjectivity. The
session will consider the ways in which spatial inscriptions of
subjectivity can be grounded and located in ways that resist
confinement. As such, the session will examine the theoretical
orientations and future directions of feminisms, geographies, and the
crucial links between them.
Offers of papers are sought for this one-day session organised
jointly by HPGRG and WGSG. Please send titles and abstracts of not
more than 150 words (if possible via email) to one of the convenors by
July 31 1998. We welcome submission from postgraduates.
Convenors:
Alison Blunt, Department of Geography, University of Southampton,
Southampton, SO17 1BJ - email: [log in to unmask]
Cheryl McEwan, School of Geography, University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT - email: [log in to unmask]
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