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Dear all, The deadline for the International Conference for Critical Geography, ICCG has been extended and we are looking for more participants for our panel. Please see below the session description and abstract and feel free to circulate. Call for Papers ICCG, Athens April 19-23, 2019 Panel Title: "Us and them": Emerging publics, (in)visible urban borders Organizers: Dr. Asli Duru (University of Oxford) and Dr. Nufar Avni (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem). Deadline: October 13, 2018 Description The panel will bring together diverse regional and disciplinary (artistic, academic) perspectives on the urban as a (geo)political mode of thinking populism through nativist, authoritarian, patriarchal borders and boundaries in everyday life. Abstract Populism is rising across the world including Europe and its peripheries. From Germany to Turkey, Israel and Eastern European countries there is a surge of authoritarian leaders and nativist political formations. What connects these developments, in broadest terms, is a reduced representation of social complexity within "us" and "them" categories. Both within and outside academic debates, there is a consensus that the "us and them" binary is the core political dynamic by which populism establishes the moral contours of a polarised public sphere. This is why, populists capitalise on existing vulnerabilities to consolidate political power by gathering "the people" as "us" against "them" as morally inferior others. These tensions are most intense in contemporary cities shaped by struggles around immigration, recognition and co-existence. Yet, the urban configurations of populism are substantially under-examined. (Non)academic debates on populism attribute great significance to the linguistic frames of communicating populist reproduction of "us/them". The material conduits by which "us/them" is communicated through bodies and the built environment are overlooked. This panel will bring together geographic perspectives by artistic and academic practitioners from diverse regions to address: How do (in)visible urban borders shape the way populism is lived and perceived in everyday life? How can the relationship between urban borders and boundaries and populism be known? What kind of "us" and "them" publics emerge around different socio-material processes in cities? Please send a title and abstracts or any inquiries to Asli Duru ([log in to unmask]) and Nufar Avni ([log in to unmask]) by Oct. 13. Best, Asli Asli Duru (PhD) Marie Sklodawska-Curie Fellow School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford email: [log in to unmask] Visualising memories of violence in urban places (VISMEM 707406)<http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/aduru.html> Forthcoming: "Wearable cameras, in-visible breasts: reflections on doing feminist research with wearable camcorders", Gender, Place and Culture. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1