RC15 - Political and Cultural Geography

'Diverse Geographies Of Peace, Environmental Impacts, Territorial Conflicts, And War In The Contemporary World' (Thematic Conference)

Maria Lois — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 01:22:00 +0100

The International Geographical Union (IGU), in collaboration with the National Committee of Colombia and the Commission on Latin American and Caribbean Studies (C20.30), invites the international scientific community to participate in the IGU Thematic Conference 2025.

Our RC is supporting this event... please, spread the word!

All the info here: https://www.ugi2025colombia.com

For more information, contact:

Professor Luis Carlos Jiménez Reyes

Email: lcjimenezre@gmail.com

Email: geografiaugi_nal@unal.edu.co

7th International Workshop. "Political Geography and Geopolitics as scientific approaches" (RC41 and RC15)

Maria Lois — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 19:42:00 +0200

Please take a look to our program for the Workshop!

IPSA 2025: Call for Panels

Maria Lois — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 18:31:00 +0200

Until the end of August , call for panels is open!

Instructions and details here: https://wc2025.ipsa.org/wc/home

Please, spread the word. We are looking forward to see you in Seoul!

7th International Workshop. "Political Geography and Geopolitics as scientific approaches". Organized by RC41 and RC15

Maria Lois — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:38:00 +0100

Corvinus University, Budapest, 11-13 October 2024.

2nd Congress of Iberian Borders / II Congreso de Fronteras Ibéricas (UCM, January 2024)

Maria Lois — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 17:16:00 +0100

Last week, in the Political Science and Sociology school of the University Complutense of Madrid, the Congress was held, organized by the Research Group Space and Power (UCM), the University of Montreal and our Research Commite 15 (RC15).

Interdisciplinarity, dialogue and hospitality.

Great event!

Sixth International Workshop RC41/15. University of Belgrade (Serbia), October 2023

Maria Lois — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 22:48:00 +0100

Sixth International Workshop RC41/15. University of Belgrade (Serbia), October 2023

Maria Lois — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 22:48:00 +0100

Sixth International Workshop RC41/RC15 THE WORLD 'SHATTERING': WHAT`S IN STORE FOR THE GEOPOLITICAL SYSTEM TO COME?

Maria Lois — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 22:24:00 +0100

On October, the International Workshop happened in Belgrade University, at the Security Studies faculty.

Amazing papers, warmest local organization, a visit to the Serbian Parliament...a really international event and a great conviviality with our colleagues of RC41.

Looking forward to the Seventh!

Please see our magnific agenda

IPSA 2023, Buenos Aires

Maria Lois — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 21:01:00 +0100

We had an amazing re-encounter in IPSA 2023! Great sessions, amazing city...really good to meet again with the international Political Science.

Sharing some pics of the Congress to prove it ;-)

IPSA WC2023: Call for Panels is now Open

Maria Lois — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 13:38:00 +0200

Please find all the dates, rules, and details in the IPSA 2023 webpage.

https://wc2023.ipsa.org/wc/submit-panel

Web page of the 2023 IPSA World Conference in Buenos Aires

Maria Lois — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:05:00 +0200

The 27th IPSA World Congress of Political Science website is now online! The IPSA World Congress will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 15 to 19 July 2023.

The Congress website, wc2023.ipsa.org, features details on the World Congress theme and program, important deadlines, registration fees, venue information, the procedure to apply for an Argentina visa, and useful information about Buenos Aires

On our RC sessions in IPSA (Lisbon, 2021)

Maria Lois — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 17:27:00 +0100

Our Board Member, dear Gabriela de la Paz (Tecnológico de Monterrey, México), has published a review on our panels.

Open acces to the text, in the journal Geopolítica(s), here:

https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/GEOP/article/view/78625

Sorry, this time Spanish only ;-)

IPSA 2021_Virtual: our panels

Maria Lois — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 08:01:00 -0400

Here we go, to our next Congress. As RC15, we are hosting 7 panels. Join us virtually!

34th International Geographical Congress (IGU, August, 2020)

Maria Lois — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 10:46:00 -0500

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

CFP: Heritage Geographies Conference (May 2020)

Maria Lois — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 10:32:00 -0500

Our colleagues of the IGU Commission of Political Geography are organising 2 panels. Deadline; December 31st.

**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.

** 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

IPSA´s 70th Anniversary

Maria Lois — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 13:12:00 -0500

November, 22 2019 RC 15 joined the event at La Sorbonne University. Here the program and some pics. Happy anniversary, IPSA!

From above to below: María Lois and Ryan Weichelt (RC15 Co-Chairs); Michelle Bachelet giving a keynote speech on Human Rights nd Academy. And with Marianne Kneuer, current president of IPSA.

IPSA 2020: Call for Proposals Extended

Maria Lois — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 15:15:00 -0400

CFP for papers and closed panels open until October 24th!

All the info at https://wc2020.ipsa.org/wc/home

Looking forward to hear from you!

Final CFP: GEOPOLITICAL ECONOMY OF EAST ASIAN DEVELOPMENTALISM.

Maria Lois — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 19:16:00 -0400

Osaka (Japan), November 2019

All the info here: https://sites.google.com/view/earcag-gpe2019/

RC15 Twitter Account

Maria Lois — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 20:04:00 -0400

Happy to inform we have a twitter account!. Our tag is IPSA-RC 15, so you will find us at @15Ipsa.

IPSA 2020 RC15 Panels_ Call for Papers

Maria Lois — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 04:06:00 -0400

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!

Interdisciplinary Studies in Electoral Geography

Political Science as Intelligence. Operational Tools for Good Government and Public Security

Divided Cities and Divided Societies in an Open World

Geopolitical Conflicts in the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement. Between the Liberal and the Conservative Order, and the Social Alternatives

Geopolitics of Peace

Borders in the Making: Policies, Practices, People

The Politics of Heritage: Spaces, Policies and Practices of Cultural Governance in Pluralistic Societies

The Ocean as a factor of National Identity, and Geopolitical and Economic Relevance in the context of a Globalised World

“’Political Geography’ and ‘Geopolitics’: Are the Walls of Separation Substantive or Semantic? (RC41 Joint Panel)