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Subject: [amcircle] Invite to participate in RGS-IBG conference session
- Mapping Stories
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:14:05 +0000
From: Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]>
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> Hello list,
>
> I was wondering if any 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.
>
> ---
>
> Call for papers 2009 RGS-IBG Annual International Conference. 26-28th
> August 2009, Manchester, UK
>
>
> Mapping Stories: Why Do Geographers Make Maps?
> ==============================================
>
> Session organisers:
>
> Chris Perkins and Martin Dodge
> Geography, School of Environment and Development, University of
Manchester
>
> Jeremy Crampton
> Departme nt 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
<http://www.rgs.org/AC2009>
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