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H-ASIA December 16, 2010 Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference 2011 Session: "Resuscitating Necrogeography" (1st call for papers) ************************************************************************ Ed. note: Apologies for an error in the subject line on an earlier post today. To avoid confusion, the CFP is reposted. ML ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lakhbir Jassal l.jassal@HOTMAIL.COM 1st Call for Papers RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, 31st August - 2nd September 2011 Resuscitating Necrogeography Session Organizers: Jane M. Jacobs (University of Edinburgh) and Lakhbir Jassal (University of Edinburgh) Sponsored By: Historical Geography Research Group (HGRG) Understanding death has been a persistent albeit relatively minor concern of historical geography. This call seeks to resuscitate geographies of death and does so because, like Lily Kong (1999) before us, we believe that deathscapes are relevant to wider theoretical arguments active in the discipline. Existing geographies of death and dying follow very specific contours of scholarship and have resulted in silos of scholarship. Social geographies of mortality, for example, have little to say to cultural geographies of death rituals. More significantly, the theoretical concerns that animate our most progressive and challenging geographies of the living often by pass our thinking about the dead, who seem to remain entombed in a world of identity and meaning. What might, for example, a post-humanist perspective mean for studies of the dead? What geographies of affect are produced in the land of the dead? What are the uneven geographies of dying? How are dead souls governed? What environmental imperatives are re-shaping death? We invite individuals researching and re-imagining necrogeographies of all kinds, but call specifically for papers interested in the following themes: Innovation and invention in body disposal; Governing the dead soul governmentality and the dead; Death and memory/forgetting;Death and migration; The body in the archive;Grief, melancholy and mourning; Affect and the dead;Death and nature; Living dead: ghosts, resurrections and other returns. Please send abstracts (approximately 250 words) of proposed papers, including institute affiliation, to Lakhbir Jassal: L.Jassal@sms.ed.ac.uk Deadline for Submission: 1st February 2011 Lakhbir Jassal Doctoral Student The University of Edinburgh Institute of Geography School of GeoSciences Drummond Street Edinburgh EH8 9XP Scotland, UK L.Jassal@sms.ed.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: For info on the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2011 (including Call for Papers and Call for Sessions) see: http:www.rgs.org/AC2011 ML ************************************************************************* To post to H-ASIA simply send your message to: <H-ASIA@h-net.msu.edu> For holidays or short absences send post to: <listserv@h-net.msu.edu> with message: SET H-ASIA NOMAIL Upon return, send post with message SET H-ASIA MAIL H-ASIA WEB HOMEPAGE URL: http://h-net.msu.edu/~asia/
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