CFP: Cities and Urban Regions in the Americas and/or International Institutions
Apologies for x posting Call for Papers.Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting, Chicago, IL, USA, April 21-25, 2015.Sessions: 1) Cities and Urban Regions in the Americas; 2) International (Planning) Institutions and/or International Urban and Planning Issues.Organizers: Joel Outtes, GEST- Group for the Study of Societies and Territories, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, email j.outtes-wander...@oriel.oxon.org and Betty Smith, Eastern Illinois University, USA, email: besm...@eiu.eduDeadline for proposal to our session: October 15, 2014.We invite paper proposals for a session on urban topics in the Americas and/or international institutions to take place at the annual meeting of the AAG (http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting) in Chicago, IL, USA, April 21-25, 2015. Papers might explore, but not be limited toEconomic restructuring and its spatial impactsChanging urban morphologyTransnational linkagesUrban hierarchiesHistoric city centersUrban historical geographyEthnic neighborhoodsCity planning in the AmericasCriminality, urban gangs and the Geography of illegal territoriesThe informal sectorIntra-metropolitan mobilityThe politics of urban environmental problemsPopulation IssuesInformal transportation and social conflictsParticipatory budget and urban social movementsUrban social geographyThe International Planning MovementThe Urban International: the spatiality of international institutions such asthe IFHP-International Federation for Housing and Planning, UCLG-United Citiesand Local Governments, IULA-International Union of Local Authorities andIHA-International Housing Association alone or in Comparative PerspectivePlease remember that participants must register and pay fees by November 05, 2014 (cheapest rate); please only apply to be in the session (05 papers maximun per session, there can be a series of sessions) if you are sure you will make the conference. If you are interested in be part of the session/s please send us your abstract and then (if you prefer after we aprove it) register and later send us your pin number whenever / as soon as possible.Thanks and all our best wishes,Joel Outtes, GEST- Group for the Study of Societies and Territories, UFRGS, email j.outtes-wander...@oriel.oxon.orgBetty Smith, Eastern Illinois University, email: besm...@eiu.edu
CFP AAG 2015: Logistics and Power
CALL FOR PAPERS Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting Chicago, April 21–25, 2015 Logistics and Power Organizers: Martin Danyluk, University of Toronto Kyle Loewen, University of British Columbia Since the mid-twentieth century, the rise of logistics has played an important but underappreciated role in reconfiguring global socio-spatial relations. Emerging from military and imperialist origins, logistical developments like the intermodal shipping container, just-in-time production, and supply-chain management have been vital to both globalizing production and reorganizing forms of power. After being confined to business and management schools for several decades, logistics has only recently been taken up as an object of critical study (Bernes 2013; Bonacich and Wilson 2008; Cowen 2014; Hall and Hesse 2012; Hesse and Rodrigue 2004; Neilson 2012; Sekula 2002). Yet despite a growing body of research into the spatialities of global logistical systems, there is a need for further geographical reflection on the modes and structures of power at work within them. This session therefore seeks to build wide-ranging critical conversations around the entanglements of logistics and power. For example, firms’ and states’ efforts to make commodity flows more efficient, flexible, and reliable are part of violent and contested processes rather than seamless, purely technical, or inherently beneficial operations. Cheap goods movement depends on increased worker exploitation and acts of dispossession throughout planetary distribution networks. In another sense, supply systems shape economic and political possibilities through the distribution of material resources and wastes, enabling certain ways of life while hindering others. Lastly, by organizing infrastructures of supply, logistics affects processes of social reproduction, with gendered implications for consumption and labor practices. Yet while global supply chains create new mechanisms of exploitation and control, they also present new opportunities for political resistance and struggle (Herod 2000; Reifer 2004; Tsing 2009). In this spirit, we invite papers from a range of disciplinary, methodological, and conceptual orientations—including feminist, Marxist, queer, de-colonial, assemblage, and anti-racist theory—that foreground the power-laden geographies of logistics. Examples include but are encouraged to exceed: - uneven geographies of race and commodity flow - politics within the supply chain - labor and the logistics revolution - logistics, urbanization, and infrastructure - the entanglement of war and trade - logistics, imperialism, and territory - gendered dynamics of logistics and social reproduction - logistics and biopolitics - ways of being and becoming that are made possible and foreclosed through supply infrastructure - enclosure and dispossession within logistical systems Please e-mail abstracts of up to 250 words to Martin Danyluk (martin.dany...@utoronto.ca) and Kyle Loewen (loewen.k...@geog.ubc.ca) by Friday, October 17, 2014. Be sure to include a title and contact information. References Bernes, Jasper. 2013. “Logistics, Counterlogistics and the Communist Prospect.” Endnotes, September. http://endnotes.org.uk/en/jasper-bernes-logistics-counterlogistics-and-the-communist-prospect. Bonacich, Edna, and Jake B. Wilson. 2008. Getting the Goods: Ports, Labor, and the Logistics Revolution. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Cowen, Deborah. 2014. The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Hall, Peter, and Markus Hesse, eds. 2012. Cities, Regions and Flows. London: Routledge. Herod, Andrew. 2000. “Implications of Just-in-Time Production for Union Strategy: Lessons from the 1998 General Motors-United Auto Workers Dispute.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90 (3): 521–47. Hesse, Markus, and Jean-Paul Rodrigue. 2004. “The Transport Geography of Logistics and Freight Distribution.” Journal of Transport Geography 12 (3): 171–84. Neilson, Brett. 2012. “Five Theses on Understanding Logistics as Power.” Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory 13 (3): 322–39. Reifer, Thomas Ehrlich. 2004. “Labor, Race, and Empire: Transport Workers and Transnational Empires of Trade, Production, and Finance.” In Labor versus Empire: Race, Gender, and Migration, edited by Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Raul A. Fernandez, Vivian Price, David Smith, and Linda Trinh Võ, 17–35. New York: Routledge. Sekula, Allan. 2002. Fish Story. 2nd ed. Düsseldorf: Richter Verlag. Tsing, Anna. 2009. “Supply Chains and the Human Condition.” Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture and Society 21 (2): 148–76.
2nd CFP AAG 2015: Reinvigorating Geographies of Science: Theorizing Science through Space, Place, Scale
2nd CFP: Association of American Geographers (AAG), 21-25 April 2015, Chicago, IL Reinvigorating Geographies of Science: Theorizing Science through Space, Place, Scale Sponsored by the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group and the Economic Geography Specialty Group Session organizers: Jake Fleming (University of Wisconsin–Madison) Elizabeth Hennessy (University of Wisconsin–Madison) Mark H. Cooper (University of Wisconsin–Madison) Discussants:Rebecca Lave (Indiana University Matt Turner (University of Wisconsin–Madison) Over the past decade, geographers have increasingly investigated the politics and production of scientific knowledge. Understanding science as “produced by people with bodies, situated in time, space, culture, and society, and struggling for credibility and authority” (Shapin 2010) opens various avenues for geographic analysis. Geographers have productively engaged with a variety of concepts from science and technology studies (STS) to investigate the construction, circulation, and effects of scientific knowledge, particularly in structuring human-environment relationships. In this session, we seek papers that build on such approaches to theorize geographies of science—both how place matters in the production of knowledge and how that knowledge in turn shapes particular places. As articulated by David Livingstone in his 2003 Putting Science In Its Place, geographies of science make visible the arenas in which science is done, its broader setting in space and time, and its life as products and processes that travel the world, demonstrating how science is marked by the signatures of place. Livingstone’s approach offers narrative accounts of scientists doing science in place that provide deep geographical context to scientific knowledge and its production, and also illuminate the complex assemblages of actors who participate, often invisibly, in the process. At its best, the geography of science illuminates the places and processes out of which the “view from nowhere” coalesces. In recent years, geographic theorizations of place (Massey 2005), scale (Kaiser and Nikiforova 2008), landscape (Wylie 2005), and space (Woodward et al. 2012) have evolved considerably. How might these and other theorizations reinvigorate the basic contention of geographies of science that place matters in the construction of knowledge? How can these newer geographic approaches help us understand not only the production of scientific knowledge, but also its effects on place? And how do they articulate with other popular approaches to parsing the construction and circulation of scientific knowledge, such as Bourdieu’s scientific fields (1975), Latour’s centers of calculation (1987), Star and Griesemer’s boundary objects (1989), Callon’s performativity (1998), and Gieryn’s truth-spots (2002)? To date, geographers have particularly investigated ecology and laboratory sciences; what might a geographic approach to other, less clearly place-based sciences (such as economics or mathematics) look like? How do these theoretical tools help us find new ways to parse what Livingstone called the “geographical experiment” of keeping nature and culture under one conceptual umbrella? It is our hope that papers in this session will investigate these and other questions, such as: What can theoretical innovations contribute to established narrative and historical approaches to the geography of science? What place should scientists doing science have in geographical analysis? In the face of big science, transnational science, and global science, what payoff remains from demonstrating that science is made in places? Precisely how much steam has critique run out of, how did critique come to be steam-powered in the first place, and what does this have to do with the recent intellectual production of Bruno Latour? What stories does the geography of science make it possible to tell, and what political projects does it make it possible to enact? Paper topics could include, but are not limited to: - the creation and durability of sites of experiment and scientific inquiry - the geographic features or consequences of scientific controversy - epistemologies and ontologies of fieldwork - scientists as embodied/embedded actors - methodological considerations surrounding science as a spatially-embedded practice - historical geographies of science - the Stengersian “redescription” of science - the geographies of scientific and technological objects - the co-constitution of scientific labor and scientific site Please email abstracts of no more than 250 words to Jake Fleming (jeflem...@wisc.edu) by Friday, October 10. To aid the discussants for this session, presenters will be asked to submit a written
