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Subject:        CFP: Mapping Blackness, AAG 2208 Boston
Date:   Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:01:55 -0700
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We are looking for a couple more papers to complete a second session, if you are interested please let us know by Friday 23 November

Many thanks

>Mapping Blackness
>
>Call for Papers
>Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Boston
>15-19 April 2008
><http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2008/papers.htm>http://www.aag.org/a
>nnualmeetings/2008/papers.htm
>
>Convenors Caroline Bressey, UCL and Paul Goodwin, Goldsmiths College
>
>Geographical metaphors and practices of mapping have increasingly
>infused studies of Blackness in the Americas and Europe.  These have
>ranged from theoretical interventions, the historical mapping of the
>Black presence, issues around health, social, educational and economic
>life, and creative interventions around Black identity.  This session
>seeks to discuss how these modes of representation have impacted upon
>the production and mobilisation of Blackness. It also seeks to ask how
>Black identity has been constituted and reconstituted through these
>debates.
>
>Possible paper topics include:
>- The use of maps by artists exploring aspects of Black history and
>contemporary identity.
>- Historical geographies of the Black Presence in Europe, the Americas,
>and the Pacific.
>- Recent mapping projects undertaken by galleries, archivists and
>community groups.
>- The use of spatial metaphors in developing geographical imaginations
>of the African Diaspora.
>- The mapping of inequality and its impact on anti-racist projects.
>- The possibilities for GIS technologies in mapping Blackness.
>
>Participants may wish to:
>- Present findings from historical or contemporary research projects.
>- Consider the methodological and theoretical impact of the Black
>experience on geographical theory, urban theory and the emerging
>interdisciplinary field of 'spatial practices' and debate.
>- Discuss the methodological and practical problems (within the academy
>and beyond) of conducting such research.
>- Discuss the changing media representations of Blackness post-9/11.
>
>Please send an abstract of no more than 200 words to both Caroline
>Bressey
><mailto:[log in to unmask]>blackhistoricalgeographies
>@ucl.ac.uk and Paul Goodwin
><mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]


Dr Caroline Bressey
ESRC Research Fellow
Department of Geography
University College London