• ABS 2016 Annual Conference
21 Settembre 2015
ABS 2016 Annual Conference Call for Papers has been published and is now available at the ABS website.
La convocatoria para la conferencia 2016 de ABS ha sido publicada y es disponible a través del sitio web de la asociación.
ABS 2016 Annual Conference / the WSSA 58th Annual Conference
April 13-16, 2016, Reno, Nevada, USA
To be organized at Grand Sierra Resort & Casino, 2500 E. 2nd St, Reno, NV, 89595, USA
Call for Papers – Convocatoria
Please remember to pay your annual ABS membership fee and your WSSA conference registration in order to attend the conference
Debido a que las reuniones anuales de la ABS tienen lugar en colaboración con la conferencia anual de la Western Social Science Association, por favor recuerden pagar su cuota anual de afiliación a la ABS y su cuota de inscripción WSSA cada enero.
Please note, submit proposals directly to the program chair and coordinator: Dr. Patricia Barraza, mbarraza@uacj.mx (not through the newly introduced online submission system at WSSA website)
To make a reservation at the Grand Sierra Resort & Casino online, at the special rate, please go to Hotel Reservation
- ABS program chair and coordinator: Dr. Patricia Barraza (mbarraza@uacj.mx)
- ABS Head of Organization: Dr. Jussi Laine (absexec@uef.fi)
- WSSA General Program Director: Dr. Michèle Companion ( mcompani@uccs.edu)
• IGU Regional conference in Moscow
13 Agosto 2015
You can find the programme of the upcoming IGU Regional Conference in Moscow at http://www.igu2015.ru/programme
For those interested in Political Geography, please note the following sessions of our Commission (C12.33 Commission on Political Geography) and lectures by political geographers:
Monday
12.30-14.00 Session C12.33 CPG Bordering Eurasia: Politics, Power, and Political Geography 1 (Paul RICHARDSON, Akhinaro IWASHITA) (C202)
15.00-16.30 Session C12.33 CPG Bordering Eurasia: Politics, Power, and Political Geography 2 (Paul RICHARDSON, Akhinaro IWASHITA) (C202)
17.00-18.30 Session C12.33 CPG Bordering Eurasia: Politics, Power, and Political Geography 3 (Paul RICHARDSON, Akhinaro IWASHITA) (C202)
Tuesday
9.30-11.00 C12.33 Session C12.33 CPG Problems of Contemporary Political Geography and Geopolitics 1 (Inocent MOYO, Christopher C. NSHIMBI) (C202)
14.00-14.45 Thematic Lecture The spatial control of “vices” in the U.S. military outpost: Value contradictions in a long-term stationing on foreign soil byProfessor Takashi YAMAZAKI (Japan)
14.00-15.30 Session C12.33 CPG Problems of Contemporary Political Geography and Geopolitics 2 (Inocent MOYO, Christopher C. NSHIMBI) (C202)
16.00-17.30 Session C12.33 CPG Problems of Contemporary Political Geography and Geopolitics 3 (Inocent MOYO, Christopher C. NSHIMBI) (C202)
Wednesday
9.30-11.00 Session C12.33 CPG Borders and illegalities (Adriana DORFMAN, Elena DELL’AGNESE) (C153)
9.30-11.00 Joint Session C12.20 Commission on the History of Geography & C12.33 Commission on Political Geography Rethinking what (political) geography ought to be: Theories, histories, and practices of geography and geopolitics as instruments of peace 1 (Takashi YAMAZAKI, Alexey POSTNIKOV) (C201)
11.30-13.00 Plenary lecture Coping With a Fast-Changing, Unstable World: Opportunities and Challenges for Geography by Professor Alexander MURPHY (USA)
14.00-15.30 Session C12.33 CPG The critical geopolitics of food (Elena DELL’AGNESE) (C153)
14.00-15.30 Joint Session C12.20 Commission on the History of Geography & C12.33 Commission on Political Geography Rethinking what (political) geography ought to be: Theories, histories, and practices of geography and geopolitics as instruments of peace 2 (Takashi YAMAZAKI, Alexey POSTNIKOV) (C201)
Thursday
9.30-11.00 Session C12.33 CPG For Kropotkin (Anthony INCE, Simon SPRINGER) (C237)
11.30-13.00 Plenary lecture Climate change and conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa by Professor John O’LOUGHLIN (USA)
14.00-15.30 Business meeting of the Commission on Political Geography (for any participant interested in Political Geography) (to be confirmed, room tba)
Friday
9.30-11.00 Joint Session C12.10 Gender & Geography & C12.33 Commission on Political Geography Gender Activisms in Asia: Peoples, Places and Politics(Shirlena HUANG, Chih Yuan WOON) (C225)
11.30-13.00 Plenary lecture Russian Geography: Specifics, Achievements, Problems by Professor Vladimir KOLOSOV(Russia)
14.45-15.30 Thematic Lecture From “pasta” to “poi”: towards a critical geography of food by Professor Elena dell’Agnese (Italy)
14.00-15.30 Session C12.33 CPG Russian geopolitics and the former Soviet countries (Takashi YAMAZAKI) (C 225)
16.00-18.30 Closing ceremony (IGU Commission Excellence Award 2015)
Wishing all of you able to attend the Regional Conference a smooth trip to Moscow and looking forward to meeting you there.
Kind regards,
Takashi Yamazaki
Virginie Mamadouh
IGU Commission on Political Geography
• Borderities and the Politics of Contemporary Mobile Borders
12 Giugno 2015
Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary and Frédéric Giraut are are very happy to announce the publication of their book that looks at the transformations affecting border spaces, by using the concept of the ‘mobile border’ to examine the growing dissociation between border functions and border locations. The book bears witness to the claim that de/rebordering and de/reterritorialization processes are not equivalent. It questions them through the analysis of ‘borderities,’ a concept built upon a close reading of the writings of Michel Foucault and derived from ‘governmentality.’ ‘Borderity,’ any technology of spatial or socio-spatial division, could be defined as the governmentality of territorial limits. Although initially defined as a technology of power, borderity may also appear as a differentiated social and political quality. The contributors examine the production of mobile borders (section 1: technologies), their incarnation (section 2: biopolitics) and their complex interpretation (section 3: ‘dispositifs’). By looking at how political subjects can be disabled and enabled, the proposed ‘borderities’ approach illuminates the question of how borders can be the site of both power and counter-power.
To know more about it: attached file + open-access introduction:
• One-day conference: PEACESCAPES
14 Maggio 2015
ONE-DAY CONFERENCE
PEACESCAPES: EXPLORING LANDSCAPES OF PEACE AND PEACEBUILDING
DATE: Friday 22 May 2015
TIME: 10.00 – 17.30
LOCATION: Gottmann and Beckit Rooms, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.
We warmly invite you to the ‘Peacescapes: Exploring Landscapes of Peace and Peacebuilding” conference to be held on the 22nd of May, 10.00-17.30, at the School of Geography and the Environment. This conference will critically dissect implicit meanings of ‘peace’ and how ‘peace’ is operationalised at a range of social, spatial, and temporal scales. With 14 guest speakers confirmed, this conference will examine interdisciplinary approaches to the study of peace and peacebuilding by focussing on three core intersections: ‘Peace, Space, and Place’, ‘Conflict, Peace, and the City’, and ‘Peacebuilding, Natural Resources, and the Environment’.
Keynote speaker: Professor Oliver Richmond – Professor of International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Manchester.
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL BUT PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED
Please contact tarek.kheireddine@ouce.ox.ac.uk before 18 May 2015.
Conference Organisers: Serkan Birgel, Tarek Kheireddine and Rowan Popplewell.
With special thanks to Dr Fiona McConnell. This conference is kindly funded by the ESRC Doctoral Training Centre, The Oxford Network of Peace Studies (OxPeace), and the ‘Transformations: Economy, Society and Place’ Research Cluster at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.
• IGU Moskow: EXTENDED DEADLINE
02 Febbraio 2015
Extended deadlines
Please check the website of the IGU and that of the Commission on Political Geography to check the conditions for the travel grants.
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CALL FOR PAPERS for sessions organized by the IGU Commission on Political Geography
at the International Geographical Union Regional Conference, Moscow
17-21 August 2015
Unless otherwise specified, abstracts of 200-250 words (maximum: 1,800 characters, including spaces) should be submitted via the Moscow IGU Regional Conference website: http://www.igu2015.ru/instruction-abstract-submission
Extended Deadline for abstract submissions: 28 February 2015.
• CPG travel grants for the IGU conference in Moskow
15 Gennaio 2015
IGU Commission on Political Geography (CPG)
The Commission of Political Geography (CPG) will offer limited funding (two grants of $500) to assist two postgraduate students and/or early career scientists in attending the IGU Regional Conference 2015 in Moscow. The Travel Grants provide only a partial contribution to registration, transport and accommodation.
In selecting applicants to receive awards, preference will be given to young scholars and, in particular to those from developing countries. A list of developing countries prepared by the local organizing committee of the IGU Regional Conference in Moscow can be found at: http://igu2015.ru/grants
Applicants must first submit the abstract of their paper. To be eligible for a CPG grant, the abstract must be reviewed, accepted and scheduled in a session related to the CPG at the IGU Regional Conference in Moscow.
The call for papers for these sessions can be found on the website of the Commission at http://www.igu-cpg.unimib.it/?page_id=102.
Applicants then need to submit a full paper to both of CPG Co-Chairs (Virginie Mamadouh and Takashi Yamazaki) via email by 31 March 2015. The results of the review will be notified by the end of April. Awards willbe paid to successful applicants in cash in US $ after the grantees’ presentations at the IGU Moscow conference venue.
For more details, see the application form
