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Subject: invite to participate in RGS-IBG conference session - Mapping
Stories
Dear Map-L list,
I was wondering if anyone on the list might be interested in giving a
paper in our planned session at the RGS-IBG conference this August in
Manchester.
Details in the Call for Papers below.
cheers
Martin Dodge
Geography
School of Environment and Development,
The University of Manchester,
Oxford Road,
Manchester, M13 9PL,
United Kingdom.
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Call for papers 2009 RGS-IBG Annual International Conference. 26-28th
August 2009, Manchester, UK
Mapping Stories: Why Do Geographers Make Maps?
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Session organisers:
Chris Perkins and Martin Dodge
Geography, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester
Jeremy Crampton
Department of Geosciences, Georgia State University
Context:
Research in the history of science and technology increasingly accepts the
need for ethnographic approaches to the construction of knowledge, which
follow key actors in the process, and also trace the inscriptions they
leave behind (Latour 1987). Geographers have only recently begun to
explore their own knowledge communities in this way (see for example
Barnes 2004; Livingstone and Withers 2005), reflecting critically on the
contextual significance of place, and the political significance of
historical processes in our making and imagining of spaces. But the
discursive power of narrative in the construction of particular
geographical imaginations has long been recognised (see Gregory 1993).
This session seeks to bring these two approaches together to deepen our
understanding of the processes underpinning spatial knowledge claims, by
marrying storytelling to a critical and contextual emphasis on why
geographers make, and have made maps. And equally why some geographers
don't make maps anymore.
Last year's conference included well-attended methodological sessions
focusing on maps that matter to geographers but little is known about
*why* mapping might be deployed across different areas of the discipline,
or about the *reasons* for changing relations between cartographic
practices and geography. We invite papers that focus in a critical way on
this relation, and tell particular and positioned stories about the
strongly contested, ambiguous and fluid links between representational
practice, image use, technologies of production and learning with mapping
in the academy. We are interested in new insights into what geographers
do and how geographical knowledge emerges. Tell us your local mapping
story!
Suggested themes:
1. Changing pedagogic uses of mapping
2. Institutional influences on mapping practice
3. Technologies and changing research emphases
4. Aesthetics and the politics of design
5. Changing roles of the maps and other illustrations in published
research
6. The materiality of mapping in the neo-liberal academy
7. Mapping spaces and academic identities
8. The public image of geographers and mapping stereotypes
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Proposed papers with a title and short abstract (250 words maximum) should
be submitted to Chris Perkins ([log in to unmask]) by 5th February
2009. Further details on conference are at www.rgs.org/AC2009
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