We just published and distributed the first HPGRG newsletter of 2020. It is going to be a special year as the HPGRG exists 35 years! See the newsletter for an announcement of the celebrations you can download it here. It contains an reports from the 2019 RGS-IBG conference and announcements of the exciting sessions that the… Continue reading Newsletter 2020 # 1 out now
Month: February 2020
RGS-IBG 2020 CALL FOR PAPERS: EURODAC, hotspots, repatriation routes: (trans)formations of socio-technical assemblages of the European border regime
Organizers: Jacopo Anderlini (University of Genoa, jacopo.anderlini@edu.unige.it)and Silvan Pollozek (Technical University of Munich, silvan.pollozek@tum.de) Abstract The goal of this session is to examine the material and socio-technical dimensions of the European border regime and its transformations. Far from the idea of uninterrupted lines that divide sovereign political entities typical of the Westphalian model (Zaiotti 2011,… Continue reading RGS-IBG 2020 CALL FOR PAPERS: EURODAC, hotspots, repatriation routes: (trans)formations of socio-technical assemblages of the European border regime
RGS-IBG 2020 Call for Papers: Non-representational geographies: approaches, methods and practices
Organizers Amy C. Barron, (The University of Manchester, amy.barron@manchester.ac.uk) and Andrew S. Maclaren (The University of Aberdeen a.s.maclaren@gmail.com) Abstract This session brings together scholars who draw on, advance and empirically use non-representational theories and methodologies, in all their diversity. Non-representational theories serve as a springboard for exploring the affective geographies of a multitude of phenomena… Continue reading RGS-IBG 2020 Call for Papers: Non-representational geographies: approaches, methods and practices
RGS-IBG 2020 Call for Papers: Unknowing Geographies: Situating ignorance, inattention and erasure
Organized by: Dr Jeremy Brice, London School of Economics and Political Science (j.brice@lse.ac.uk) Emerging interdisciplinary scholarship in ignorance studies and agnotology has excavated complex entanglements between knowledge production and the generation of illegibilities, lacunae and ignorance (Gross 2010; McGoey 2019). However, geographers remain marginal to these discussions and extant studies of unknowing rarely focus explicitly… Continue reading RGS-IBG 2020 Call for Papers: Unknowing Geographies: Situating ignorance, inattention and erasure
RGS-IBG 2020 Call for Papers: Worlds of wisdom: ontology, immanence and transcendence in geography, philosophy and geosophy
Organizer: Emily Hayes, (Oxford Brookes University, ehayes@brookes.ac.uk) Abstract Over the last decades critical scholarship has laboured to shift Geography’s theories and praxes. In spite of these efforts the discipline continues to be associated with the oft-told associations of topographical exploration and imperialism and its crimes. Yet such a view of geographical practice is partial, lazy and chronically damaging.… Continue reading RGS-IBG 2020 Call for Papers: Worlds of wisdom: ontology, immanence and transcendence in geography, philosophy and geosophy
RGS-IBG 2020 Call for Papers: Drawing the line. Theories and Practices of Boundary Delimitation in European and Colonial Territories (Eighteenth-Twentieth Century)
Organizers: Federico Ferretti (University College Dublin, federico.ferretti@ucd.ie), Jacobo García-Álvarez and Paloma Puente-Lozano (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid). Abstract Recent geographical scholarship on territory, sovereignty and borders have pointed out the need for questioning and exposing in historical perspective a number of “myths” and “political fictions” embedded within modern state-making and its discursive and material makings. Within… Continue reading RGS-IBG 2020 Call for Papers: Drawing the line. Theories and Practices of Boundary Delimitation in European and Colonial Territories (Eighteenth-Twentieth Century)
RGS-IBG 2020 Call for papers: Speculative Thinking
Organizers: Nina Williams (UNSW Canberra, nina.williams@adfa.edu.au) and Thomas Keating (UNSW Canberra, thomas.patrick.keating@gmail.com)) Abstract Writing about the environmental, political, and financial catastrophes that define the first part of the C21st, philosophers Didier Debaise and Isabelle Stengers (2017) call for a new ‘speculative’ mode of thought capable of responding to a crisis of “lazy thinking”, “false problems”… Continue reading RGS-IBG 2020 Call for papers: Speculative Thinking
RGS-IBG 2020, Call for papers: Friedrich Engels and Geography
Organizers: Camilla Royle (King’s College London, camilla.royle@kcl.ac.uk) Abstract Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) was Karl Marx’s closest collaborator. Although mentioned less often than Marx in geographical discussions, he was an important theorist in his own right. With his pathbreaking work, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845), he analysed the social drivers of poverty, ill… Continue reading RGS-IBG 2020, Call for papers: Friedrich Engels and Geography