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ICHST 2017 - 2 CFPs of the IGU Commission on the History of Geography
ICHST 2017 - 2 CFPs of the IGU Commission on the History of Geography
ICHST 2017 - 2 CFPs of the IGU Commission on the History of Geography
ICHST 2017 - 2 CFPs of the IGU Commission on the History of Geography
ICHST 2017 - 2 CFPs of the IGU Commission on the History of Geography
Federico FerrettiRelated Papers
Over the past two decades scholars committed to combating social exploitation and oppression have converged in Canada, South Korea, Hungary, Mexico City, Mumbai and Frankfurt to participate in the International Critical Geography Conferences. This edition is the first gathering in the Middle East, one that opens a new vista for critical geography that is both timely and long overdue. Holding the conference in Palestine offers progressive academics an unprecedented opportunity to observe, engage with, and learn about the complex human, political and economic geographies of this region. Shaped by a long century of European settler colonialism and US imperialism, Palestine is much more than a site of endless political violence and revolutionary struggle. We have conceived this conference as a way to directly engage with a place and a people that are widely discussed yet seldom heard and understood. As such we hope that our discussions and experiences will move beyond commonplace binaries and reductive portrayals of Palestinian life. Further, we hope to do so in ways that allow us to learn together about commonalities and differences with other settings and struggles around the world.
ICCG 2015 in Ramallah, Palestine Session: Occupy Movements: A Survey of Alternatives Title: Surplus of Political Collective Action in Urban Resistance Keywords: J.K.Gibson – Graham, surplus, affect pedagogy, transversal methods We find ourselves at a stage in global history where local movements consisting of self-organized collectives are attaching themselves to translocal networks capable of creating rhizomatic dissemination and surplus. At the same time, the Occupy movements in different cities have introduced a realm of communal practice of difference that has gathered already existing collective resistance practices. This paper intents to draw an analysis of Occupy movements in context of economic geographers J.K.Gibson – Graham’s formulation of “political collective action”. We do speak about an uncommon knowledge that we create, a new instituting power, alternative urban pedagogy and a collective labor. In this context, community economies and surplus dissemination processes, in the sense implied by J.K. Gibson-Graham, are of particular importance. For political collective action requires "working collaboratively to produce alternative economic organizations and spaces in place."(1) Collective action requires the ethics of a community economy. In fact, I would articulate this more as an act of ethics of locality that meets the needs suggested by our everyday knowledge and the experience of safeguarding our livelihoods in both urban and rural spaces. The relational network established as a result is more of an instant community that chooses to think and discuss together rather than a normative structure. Self-organization is not a simple hierarchy based on certain labor activities and their division but, conversely, a work/labor structure that allows one to be a farmer in the morning and a graphic designer in the afternoon. To refer architect Stavros Stavrides's analysis, collaboration is not about affirmation, but negotiation. It is about debating critical issues in an urban space, where space itself is a pressing and compelling concern. The paper is aiming to ask and discuss questions: How surplus operates in practice of urban commons? What are the transversal methodologies and the “affect” pedagogy? The paper will conclude with examples from Istanbul/Turkey, of practices and methods by video-urban activists, researchers and local networks. (1) J.K. Gibson-Graham, The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It), Minnesota Press, 2006
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The purpose of this colloquium is to think about the ongoing reciprocal exchange between the ‘new mobilities paradigm’ and literary geographies. In particular, the event aims at interrogating the diverse ways in which the theories and methodologies triggered by the ‘mobility paradigm’ interact with literary geographies, including both texts and narrative practices. In our perspective, the focus on ‘mobilities’ suggests a move beyond the mere analysis of literary texts as representations, to read narratives as practices that encourage an unceasing critical movement; an open-ended engagement with the human and non-human worlds; an ongoing exploration of new mobile methodologies and forms of narrations (fictional/non-fictional, verbo-visual, cartographic). We foresee this as an opportunity to establish a network of scholars working across the disciplines, in the fields of literary geography and mobility. With ‘narrative forms and practices’ as a shared starting point, contributions will be related (but not limited) to: • State of the art of literary mobilities • Narrative creative methods (writing, storytelling etc.) • Narration of non-human mobilities • Fictional and non-fictional mobilities • Mobile maps and mappings • Mobile practices as generative of motion, routes, encounters and place • Im-mobilities/blockages, failures and disruptions • Collective and individual mobilities • Embodied mobility, privileged and excluded bodies • Virtual mobilities • The temporalities and rhythms of mobility • Mobilization of affect and atmospheres • Infrastructures, systems, assemblages • Unsettling concepts of migration, diaspora, postcolonialism, non-Western experiences of mobility • Interrogating distance and scale (global, planetary, home, bodies) • Moving through elements (water, air, earth, etc.) • Circuits of authorship and readership • Mobilities in comics and verbo-visual modes of expression
The scholarly field defined as "critical geography," or more accurately "critical geographies," has experienced a spectacular expansion and tended to become an umbrella gathering a very heterogeneous array of contributions. While labels like critical geography are not always displayed explicitly by scholars, rare are those who would not claim for drawing upon some form of critical thinking, and the geography journals whose editorial programmes are broadly inspired by critical or radical theory are increasingly well established. This expansion poses first the problem of defining what is "critical," what is "radical" and what is "mainstream," considering that the boundaries between these realms, if ever defined, are increasingly uncertain and blurred. This uncertainty also implies interrogations on how to enhance socially engaged scholarly approaches beyond the academy and its frontiers, defined by the social status of the academics and by the limits of academic main dissemination practices, such as publishing and conferencing in English. In the following text, I discuss limits and potentialities of the places and networks where current critical geographical knowledge is prevalently produced. Then, I analyse the variety and plurality of the works carried out in this field and claim for decolonizing geographical scholarship, including its critical and radical strands. This decolonization includes giving more consideration to output produced by non-Anglophone scholars, especially from the South, a problem which has been widely discussed at the International Conferences of Critical Geography but not definitively resolved hitherto. Glossary Academic extractivism. Extractivism is widely studied as a colonial and neo-colonial attitude to predate the natural resources of certain regions (especially in the Global South) at the
Starting from the conclusion of the previous report on the history and philosophy of geography (Keighren 2018), this report assesses the 'state of the art' of current attempts to make this field of studies more inclusive and to foster the increasing acknowledgement of geography's plural pasts. It does so by analysing scholarship published this year (including contributions from outside the Anglosphere), which rediscovers geographical traditions other than Northern ones, diversifies archives and places by including feminist, decolonial and subaltern outlooks, and addresses geographical traditions in radicalism and activism, increasingly connecting this field of studies with wider scholarly and political debates.
An environmental Dutch disease in the rainforest. Can spatial patterns of biodiversity be explained by colonial landscape management and agriculture ? Guyana Shield, endemism, species richness, drainage of wetlands, colonial settlement, rainforest.
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