4th Global Conference: Space and Place
Monday 9th September -
Thursday 12th September 2013
Mansfield College, Oxford, United
Kingdom
Call for Presentations
Questions of space and place affect the
very way in which we experience and recreate the world. Wars are fought over
both real and imagined spaces; boundaries are erected against the "Other"
constructing a lived landscape of division and disenfranchisement; while
ideology constructs a national identity based upon the dialectics of inclusion
and exclusion. The construction of space and place is also a fundamental aspect
of the creative arts either through the art of reconstruction of a known space
or in establishing a relationship between the audience and the performance.
Politics, power and knowledge are also fundamental components of space as is the
relationship between visibility and invisibility. This new inter- and
multi-disciplinary conference project seeks to explore these and other topics
and open up a dialogue about the politics and practices of space and place. We
seek submissions from a range of disciplines including archaeology,
architecture, urban geography, the visual and creative arts, philosophy and
politics and also actively encourage practitioners and non-academics with an
interest in the topic to participate.
We welcome traditional papers,
preformed panels of papers, workshop proposals and other forms of performance -
recognising that different disciplines express themselves in different mediums.
Submissions are sought on any aspect of space and place, including the
following:
1. Theorising Space and Place
- Philosophies and space and
place
- Surveillance, sight and the panoptic structures and spaces of
contemporary life
- Space and place as realms of becoming
- Rhizomatics
and/or postmodernist constructions of space as a "meshwork of paths" (Ingold:
2008)
- The relationship between spatiality and temporality/space as a
temporal-spatial event (Massey: 2005)
- The language and semiotics of space
and place
2.The situation and location of Identities
- Gendered spaces
including the tension between domestic and public spheres
- Work spaces and
hierarchies of power
- Geographies and archaeologies of space including
Orientalism and Occidentalism
- Ethnic spaces/ethnicity and space
-
Disabled spaces/places
- Queer places and spaces
- Alterity and its
relationship to the production of space and place
- Spatialities in Rural
areas of nature
- Queer Ruralities
- Dangerous Nature vs.
Civilisation
3. The Contestation of Existing Spaces and Places
-
Contemporary local and global political insurgencies and the politics of
occupation in urban spaces and places, including the Occupy movement, the Arab
Spring, the London Riots and the incursion by M23 into the DRC.
- The
economic, political, social and cultural contestation of urban space and its
effect upon the production of place
- The politics and ideology of
constructions and discourses of space and place including the construction of
gated communities as a response to real/imagined terrorism, class politics, or
ethnic and cultural heterogeneity.
- The relationship between power,
knowledge and the construction of place and space
- Territorial wars, both
real and imagined.
- The relationship between the global and the local and
their relationship to space and place
- Barriers, obstructions and
disenfranchisement in the construction of lived spaces
- Space and place from
colonisation to globalisation
- Real and imagined maps/cartographies of
place
- Transnational and translocal spaces and places
4.
Representations of place and space
- Embodied/disembodied spaces
- Lived
spaces and the places of the architecture of identity
- Haunted spaces/places
and non-spaces
- Set design the construction of space and the representation
of place in film, television and theatre
- Authenticity and the
reproduction/representation of place in the creative arts
- Technology and
developments in the representation of space and place including new media
technologies and 3D technologies of viewing
- Future cities/futurology and
the future of urban space and place
- Representations of the urban and the
city in the media and creative arts
- The spaces and places of and within
digital gaming and digital games
5. Networks of Mobility and the
Relationship to Movement and Space
- The spaces of flows
- Mobility,
movement, and their effects upon the production and ontology of space and
place
- Non-spaces and their relationship to mobility and movement
- The
space of Immobile mobiles (Urry, Castells) and their effects upon the nature of
place
- The places of mobility
What to Send:
300 word abstracts
should be submitted by Friday 22nd March 2013. If an abstract is accepted for
the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 21st June 2013.
300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may
be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:
a)
author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of
abstract, f) up to 10 keywords
E-mails should be entitled: SP4 Abstract
Submission
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using
footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold,
italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer all paper proposals
submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we
did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then,
to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising
Chairs:
Matt Melia: mjmeliasp3@gmail.com
Rob Fisher:
sp4@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the 'Ethos' series
of research projects, which in turn belong to the Critical Issues programmes of
ID.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to
share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and
challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be
published in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to go forward for
development into 20-25 page chapters for publication in a themed dialogic ISBN
hard copy volume.
For further details of the conference, please
visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/space-and-place/call-for-papers/ |
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