RC15 - Political and Cultural Geography - CFP2024-02-23T18:04:31-05:00urn:md5:772f6ba92baf4a26326269111805807bDotclear7th International Workshop. "Political Geography and Geopolitics as scientific approaches". Organized by RC41 and RC15urn:md5:b0a1f8d7bf86c656fc772db57d8ae9162024-02-19T12:38:00+01:002024-02-19T12:38:15+01:00Maria LoisCFP<p>Corvinus University, Budapest, 11-13 October 2024. </p> <figure style="margin: 0 auto; display: table;"><img alt="3.IPSA_Workshop_CfP_final_Page1.jpg, Feb 2024" class="media" src="http://rc15.ipsa.org/public/3.IPSA_Workshop_CfP_final_Page1.jpg" /></figure>
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<p> </p>34th International Geographical Congress (IGU, August, 2020)urn:md5:b22a98f370ede3b7f8e4b5a39c8faa462019-12-09T10:46:00-05:002019-12-09T11:47:40-05:00Maria LoisCFP<p><img src="http://rc15.ipsa.org/public/igc2020-logo.png" alt="igc2020-logo.png" style="display:block; margin:0 auto;" title="igc2020-logo.png, Dec 2019" /></p> <p>Our colleagues of the Commission of Political Geography are organising a range of amazing panels.
All the info here:
https://www.igc2020.org/en/POLITICAL-GEOGRAPHY.html</p>CFP: Heritage Geographies Conference (May 2020)urn:md5:8daf3372c655fc03d7745ef31e2868012019-12-09T10:32:00-05:002019-12-09T11:34:59-05:00Maria LoisCFP<p>Our colleagues of the IGU Commission of Political Geography are organising 2 panels. Deadline; December 31st.
<img src="http://rc15.ipsa.org/public/home.gif" alt="home.gif" style="display:block; margin:0 auto;" title="home.gif, Dec 2019" /></p> <p><br />**Heritage and nationalism (IGU Commission on Political Geography)
Chair: Alec Murphy (University of Oregon)
Nationalism is premised on celebrating and sustaining a particular story of a territory and its people—where they came
from, how they are distinctive, and why they are special. As such, nationalism and heritage are inextricably linked. Many
efforts to preserve and promote aspects of a place’s heritage reflect nationalist ideas or ambitions, and the results of
such efforts can influence nationalist ideologies and practices.
The heritage-nationalism nexus has been the focus of some scholarly attention within geography and related disciplines.
Much of the work to date has focused on capital cities, especially how how their landscapes reflect particular nationalist
ideas and ambitions. Studies in this vein have focused on the remaking of the landscape of capital cities to glorify the
nation (e.g., John Agnew’s work on Rome), the construction of new capital cities that embrace selective elements of
national history (e.g., Natalie Koch’s work on the monumental cities of Central Asia), and the ways in which the
locational choices and development strategies of sub-state capitals are a product of nation-building ambitions (e.g.,
Christian Montès’ work on American colonial, territorial, and State capitals).
The relationship between heritage and nationalism is not just about capital cities, however. It is also about more general
governmental strategies to preserve and promote selected elements of the past, the competing efforts of different
groups to create landscapes that evoke selected national stories, and the discursive struggles over the hsritage-infused
iconography of nationalism.
This session on the nationalism-heritage nexus welcomes conceptual and empirical papers pertaining to the links
between nationalism and heritage. Diverse approaches are welcome. Themes include:
• Nationalist imaginations as expressed in heritage landscapes
• The uses of heritage to promote particular bordering ideas and practices
• The nationalist underpinnings of overarching state-government approaches to heritage preservation
• Landscape indicators of contested nationalist territorial ambitions
• The role of migrant and diasporic communities in the creation of heritage landscapes
• The nationalist impulse behind efforts to control the discourses around heritage and related iconographic practices.</p>
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<p><br />** Language (as) Heritage (in) Place: Political geographies of linguistic heritage geographies (IGU Commission
on Political Geography)
Chair: Virginie Mamadouh (University of Amsterdam)
Language is highly political as meaning producer, as tool of communication, and as identity marker. Language is also
intrinsically linked to heritage: both as a vehicle to communicate heritage, as a tool to write heritage in space, and as
heritage itself.
Mother tongue is often key to the transmission of intangible cultural heritage, especially among members of linguistic
minorities. Heritage languages are cherished by many migrants, while others abandon them in the acculturation process
and the appropriation of the main language of their new country of residence.
Language use is also part and parcel of place making processes and of bordering processes. The presence of a minority
language in the linguistic landscape of a particular city (i.e. on the signs in the public space) is often read as a sign of
vitality. The configuration between different languages in the linguistic landscape and soundscape attests of power
relations between language groups and their evolution over time. In border regions the historical role of languages in
contact has been contested. Linguistic heritage, including distinction from other, neighbouring languages, has been
shaped by competing narratives about their origin and evolution.
States and other institutions have deployed language policies to foster, maintain and develop their preferred
language(s), to protect it (or them) from the intrusion of other languages, more specifically hegemonic languages:
typically English with globalization, but also French in former French colonies, Russian in the Soviet bloc, and in the near
future perhaps Chinese in Africa. More specifically national languages have been constructed as core value of national
identities and heritage and nationalist ideologies have often promote the idea that territory of the state, the nation and
the language should coincided. Moreover linguistic heritage is fundamentally spatial and should be studied in its socio-spatial dimensions.
Language ideologies shape our understanding of the relation between languages, places and territories. Territorial claims are
often justified by language facts and narratives about languages shape social and spatial borders. Territorial cleansing
often includes the erasure of a specific language from the local heritage. Toponymical practices are part of such linguistic
encoding of space.
This session on linguistic heritage welcomes conceptual and empirical papers about heritage geographies pertaining to
the many relations between language and space, addressing politics, use and governance of linguistic heritage. Diverse
approaches are welcome. Themes include:
• Geographical imaginations of past language contacts
• Migration and heritage language
• Language as vehicle for intangible heritage
• Linguistic landscape and (material) heritage
• Contested geopolitical representations of languages and language groups
• Language standardization and homogenization and heritage at the margins of national territory
• Extraterritorial language policies and diasporas
• The role of supranational and international organizations regarding to linguistic heritage
• Toponymy and heritage</p>IPSA 2020: Call for Proposals Extendedurn:md5:3d3bf1524d879afc55d72f25a70c7b1b2019-10-13T15:15:00-04:002019-10-13T15:18:43-04:00Maria LoisCFP <p>CFP for papers and closed panels open until October 24th!</p>
<p>All the info at https://wc2020.ipsa.org/wc/home</p>
<p>Looking forward to hear from you!</p>Final CFP: GEOPOLITICAL ECONOMY OF EAST ASIAN DEVELOPMENTALISM.urn:md5:0ded834e3f685c2283615e25e48d54792019-08-25T19:16:00-04:002019-08-25T19:18:07-04:00Maria LoisCFP<p>Osaka (Japan), November 2019</p> <p>All the info here: https://sites.google.com/view/earcag-gpe2019/</p>
<p><img src="http://rc15.ipsa.org/public/Unknown.jpg" alt="Unknown.jpg" title="Unknown.jpg, Aug 2019" /></p>IPSA 2020 RC15 Panels_ Call for Papersurn:md5:d85272d13fcde60e1cbb2a29b6a29f7f2019-08-06T04:06:00-04:002019-08-06T04:20:51-04:00Maria LoisCFP<p><img src="http://rc15.ipsa.org/public/lisbon.jpg" alt="lisbon.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0 auto;" title="lisbon.jpg, Aug 2019" /></p> <p>Please see the list of our Panels for the Lisbon Congress. Call for Papers is opened and we are looking forward to get your proposals!</p>
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<li>Interdisciplinary Studies in Electoral Geography</li>
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<li>Political Science as Intelligence. Operational Tools for Good Government and Public Security</li>
</ul>
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<li>Divided Cities and Divided Societies in an Open World</li>
</ul>
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<li>Geopolitical Conflicts in the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement. Between the Liberal and the Conservative Order, and the Social Alternatives</li>
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<li>Geopolitics of Peace</li>
</ul>
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<li>Borders in the Making: Policies, Practices, People</li>
</ul>
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<li>The Politics of Heritage: Spaces, Policies and Practices of Cultural Governance in Pluralistic Societies</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The Ocean as a factor of National Identity, and Geopolitical and Economic Relevance in the context of a Globalised World</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>“’Political Geography’ and ‘Geopolitics’: Are the Walls of Separation Substantive or Semantic? (RC41 Joint Panel)</li>
</ul>Call for Contributions: Society and Space, "Critical Geographies in Action"urn:md5:37219bd3c1533bfe1dade81f14ae6b302019-02-13T11:49:00-05:002019-03-05T19:42:17-05:00Maria LoisCFP <p>The Society and Space open site <http://www.societyandspace.org>is excited
to announce the launch of a new section entitled “Critical Geographies in
Action.” We begin this section to call attention to the ways scholars are
putting critical geography to use within and outside the academy. In this
section, we are looking to publish essays and reflections that focus on
scholarly engagement (in terms of research practice, pedagogy, and
activism, including campus activism) with social movements, uprisings,
artistic interventions, and any other practices that actively seek to
transform social and nonhuman environments in more equitable ways. Of
particular interest are pieces co-authored between academics and
non-academics, works that connect local struggles to broader political
questions asked by geographers and movement-workers alike, and essays that
highlight the multiple locations of theoretical praxis in scholar-activist
work.</p>
<p>To see examples of past contributions, visitors may check out the newly
launched section here
<http://societyandspace.org/critical-geographies-in-action/>. Please send
short proposals and questions to Eric Goldfischer at goldf056@umn.edu.
Contributions will be accepted on a rolling basis, and timelines for
publication are flexible.</p>CFP AAG 2016: Borders and Sovereigntyurn:md5:f1a7f4c1def3da171c3faf0e70786b4b2015-09-09T11:56:00-04:002015-09-09T11:56:41-04:00Luna VivesCFP <p><strong>Title: Borders and Sovereignty</strong></p>
<p>This session will focus on borders and sovereignty and is open to papers that address the following theme(s): the history of borders and territorialities; how borders shapes the lives and/or livelihoods of borderlanders; how people in border areas influence the border and are influenced by the border; how modern state borders to control people’s movements; the use of new technologies and instruments to control people’s movement across borders; new opportunities and conflicts created by the hardening of borders; and the movement of people and goods across borders.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>When to Submit</strong></p>
<p>Send an email inquiry to me now if you are interested in joining this session (<a href="mailto:ferdoush@hawaii.edu" target="_blank">ferdoush@hawaii.edu</a>). Abstracts are due to me by <strong><span data-term="goog_1416069897" tabindex="0">October 20, 2015</span>.<a name="14f717d9cd5b32ba__GoBack"></a></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Organizers</strong></p>
<p>Reece Jones, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA</p>
<p>Md Azmeary Ferdoush, PhD student, Department of Geography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA.</p>Call for Proposals for Edited volume on Black elected officials rosterurn:md5:3e19276e9bf220b46e7dda2bd193ae4f2015-07-31T10:12:00-04:002015-07-31T10:12:20-04:00Luna VivesCFP <p>UPDATED BLACK ELECTED OFFICIALS ROSTER</p>
<p>(Under contract with Joint Center of Political and Economic Studies)</p>
<p>EDITORIAL TEAM</p>
<p>Andra Gillespie, Emory University</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Boris E. Ricks, California State University, Northridge</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">DESCRIPTION</span></p>
<p>The editors seek contributors/researchers to update The Joint Center for Political and Economic <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Studies’ (JCPES) Roster of Black Elected Officials (BEOs). Editors are rebuilding a list of over </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">12,000 Black elected officials for the first time in more than a decade. The updated roster will </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">include all BEOs serving in the U.S. by November 2016 (an estimate of about 12,000), including </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">federal, state, and all sub-state (county, city, township, village, etc.) officials. This includes </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">elected county executives, mayors, councilors, sheriffs, commissioners, school board members, </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">water board members, public service commissioners, judges, state legislators, members of </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Congress, etc… </span></p>
<p>This project historically marks the 50th Anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and will <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">contribute to research questions about the contemporary relevance of civil rights and the </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">enduring impact of social justice. As Black voters were added to the election rolls, their ballots </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">changed the composition of legislatures, city councils, and state/local commissions everywhere. </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Full participation, along with spirited civic engagement, has proved to be both transformative </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">and impactful.</span></p>
<p>SUBMITTING PROPOSALS</p>
<p>The editorial team welcomes proposals from faculty and graduate students wishing to volunteer <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">their personal time or the effort of their research assistants. Research team members will be </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">responsible for identifying all of the Black elected officials within an assigned geographic area. </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">The editors encourage proposals from scholars who have special regional knowledge. </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Proposals can be submitted to Andra Gillespie (Emory University) at angille@emory.edu or </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Boris E. Ricks (California State University, Northridge) at boris.ricks@csun.edu by August 10, </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">2015.</span></p>
<p>SELECTION PROCESS </p>
<p>Research Team selections will be announced in September 2015.</p>