International Conference of Critical Geography

(16-20 August, 2011) Deadline for proposals Jan. 10, 2011
 We are thrilled to announce that the 6th International Conference of Critical Geography will be held in Frankfurt, Germany, 16-20 August 2011. Following very successful conferences at Vancouver (1997), Taegu (2000), B�k�scsaba (2002), Mexico City (2005) and Mumbai (2007), we will be meeting at Goethe University Frankfurt to discuss "Crises - Causes, Dimensions, Reactions". The focus will be on critical and emancipatory discussion aimed at radical explanation and change, organized in (but not confined to) eleven themes (see Call for Participation). The format is designed to enhance debate beyond the confines of national traditions and academic hierarchies. While the primary conference language will be English, we will explore creative ways to deal with the multiplicity of languages. In addition, one theme will address language concerns and another one will be presented in German. http://www.geo.uni-frankfurt.de/ifh/Personen/belina/iccg2011/ <http://www.geo.uni-frankfurt.de/ifh/Personen/belina/iccg2011/> http://www.geo.uni-frankfurt.de/ifh/Personen/belina/iccg2011/ENG/index.html Theme 4: Subjectivities - in crisis? Keywords: sexuality, gender, age, race, class, (dis)ability, generation ... The sessions focusing on "Subjectivities" are meant to address both theoretical and empirical perspectives, i.e. the ways - (theoretical) concepts of "the subject" is destabilized and in crisis, - in which present socioeconomic restructuring destabilizes subjectivities - various forms of contested political subjectivities react to a) and b) in everyday life. The general objective is to discuss identity politics that a) recognize multiple social categories and their transgression within ssubjectivities and b) understand subjectivities and spaces as mutually formative. We particularly like to address emergent issues from feminist, post-colonial, urban and migration studies, as well as from political, economic and social geographies. We would like to invite sessions and presentations (including roundtable discussions, short field trips, challenging impulses - and also "proper papers") with a particular emphasis on embodied subjectivities and identities as being constituted by and constitutive of discursive and performative social processes at various spatial scales and yet inevitable being "bound" to their materialities. This includes to give special attention to social categories such as gender, sexuality, class, age, (dis)ability, health, race and ethnicity ... - as well as to the interde-pendencies of these categories and their intersections within subjectivities. We invite participation from a wide range of scholars, activists, artists, organizers and others interested in critical socio-spatial praxis. It is our aim to minimize formal paper presentations and encourage all forms of critical discussion. Please feel free to be creative when it comes to the form of your participation. Our goal is to ensure that at least 50% of conference sessions operate using alternative/experimental formats (workshops, movies, panel sessions, performance, art, poetry etc). Theme coordinators will organize ten 90 minute sessions each. Please voice your interest in participation by *submitting a proposal by 15 January 2011* to the Subjectivities theme coordinators listed here. Subjectivities Coordinators: Anke Str�ver (struever AT uni-muenster.de, Hamburg), Iris Dzudzek (iris.dzudzek AT uni-muenster.de, Frankfurt/Main), Jen Gieseking (jgieseking AT gc.cuny.edu, New York/Berlin)
Theme 1: Financial, economic and fiscal crisis
coordinators:Wendy Larner (Bristol), Jer�nimo Montero (Durham)
keywords:globalization, neoliberalism, political economy, financialization, credit ranking agencies, overaccumulation, bank bail out, state debt ...
  
Theme 2: Urban crisis
coordinators:Anders Lund Hansen (Lund), Kanishka Goonewardena (Toronto), Anne Vogelpohl (Berlin)  
keywords:housing, infrastructure, right to the city, gentrification, (racialized) urban conflict, urban crime ... 
  
Theme 3: Ecological crisis
coordinators:Sybille Bauriedl (Kassel), Nik Heynen (Georgia), Markus Wissen (Vienna)  
keywords:global warming, "natural" disasters, hybridity, production of nature, "climate wars/refugees" ... 
  
Theme 4: Subjectivities - in crisis?
coordinators:Anke Str�ver (Hamburg), Iris Dzudzek (Frankfurt/Main), Jen Gieseking (New York/Berlin)
keywords:sexuality, gender, age, race, class ... 
  
Theme 5: Oppositional struggles worldwide
coordinators:Andy Cumbers (Glasgow), Dave Featherstone (Glasgow), Rebecca Ryland (Liverpool) 
keywords:identity, gender, labor, urban, migrants' struggles, organizing ... 
  
Theme 6: Geopolitics, Biopolitics and the Critical Spaces of the Political
coordinators:Claudio Minca (Wageningen), Christian Abrahamsson (Wageningen)  
keywords:critical geopolitics, biopolitics, borders/security, war on terror, camp(s), imperialism, military geographies, counter cartographies, critical theory and/in space, spatial theory and totalitarianism, critical spatial theory and planning, revolution and space 
  
Theme 7: Mobilities in crisis
coordinators:Juanita Sundberg (UBC), Blanca R. Ram�rez (Mexico) 
keywords:migration, migration policies/management, criminalization, illegalization, mobilities... 
  
Theme 8: Universities / geography in crisis
coordinators:Ulrich Best (York), Lawrence Berg (UBC) 
keywords:economization and neoliberalisation of universities and (higher) education, "excellence", situation of critical and radical geographies, social movements and academia, radical teaching and pedagogy ... 
  
Theme 9: Babel-crisis - Critique through translation?
coordinators:M�lina Germes (Erlangen), Shadia Husseini de Ara�jo (Erlangen), Philippe Kersting (Mainz) , J�rg Mose (M�nster)  
keywords:science and the diversity of languages - problem or chance?, critical potential of translation, multilingual experimentation 
  
Theme 10: Europe and its Others
coordinators:Luiza Bialasiewicz (Royal Holloway), Veit Bachmann (Frankfurt)
keywords:Questioning 'Europe' and 'Europeanization'; Europe's borders and beyond; European geopolitics/Europe in the World; Geo-histories of European imperialism and colonisation; Europes elsewhere and Europe's elsewheres
  
Theme 11: Forschungswerkstatt Kritische Geographie IV
coordinators:AK Kritische Geographie 
keywords:sessions organized by and for German language students and everybody interested, building on and continuing discussions from previous meetings; language: German 
  

Leave a Reply