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We are looking for one or two more abstracts for consideration in the following paper session at next summer's (June 15-19) Nordic Geographer's Meeting (NGM) in Tallinn, Estonia (Meeting Announcement attached). The deadline for abstract submission is Thursday, November 20th. Because time is of the essence, if you are interested we would ask that you please BOTH: 1) contact myself (Alec Brownlow, cbrow...@depaul.edu<mailto:cbrow...@depaul.edu>) and/or Siri Veland (siri_vel...@brown.edu<mailto:siri_vel...@brown.edu>) with your idea and/or abstract AND 2) upload your abstract at the following website (https://www.frens.info/index.php), identifying the below session as the appropriate landing spot. Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you. Our session's cfp appears below. Best, Alec Brownlow ***** Narratives of Sacrifice and (In-)Security in the North Organizers: Dr. Siri Veland (Environmental Change Initiative, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA) Dr. Alec Brownlow (Dept. of Geography, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA) The 'sacrifice zone' is a rhetorical trope coined in U.S. energy and national security policies during the Cold War to identify geographies of nuclear testing and ruin; it has since become a label for those places, communities, and landscapes that have been abandoned, ruined, or abused in the pursuit of some ostensibly 'greater good'. In state political discourse, the expression serves as a justifying narrative, whereby 'sacrifice' empowers, gives moral authority to, and foments public approval of those political institutions and economic agencies capable of ecological and social devastation on a massive scale. At the same time, the sacrifice zone is part and parcel to an imperialist agenda of economic, political, and cultural hegemony - one that is tolerant of, if tested by, the administration of state-approved violence towards its own population, landscapes, and resources. This may be particularly relevant in Nordic contexts, where narratives of sacrifice are increasingly embedded and reflected within energy, climate, and national security politics and rhetoric. This session seeks contributions that investigate the relationship between sacrifice and security policies, their nexus in processes of land use change, and critically examine the place of sacrifice zones in the North. ***** Alec Brownlow, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Geography DePaul University 990 W. Fullerton Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60304 Phone: 773.325.7876 Fax: 773.325.4590
