-------- Original Message -------- 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]> Reply-To: [log in to unmask] To: AMC <[log in to unmask]>, mapsL <[log in to unmask]>, IAG list <[log in to unmask]> References: <[log in to unmask]> > 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 > > > ---- > 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> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>