CFP: 2018 AAG Annual Meeting, NOLA
Title: “From the margins to the center: voices and movements that communicate, demonstrate, relocate, or emancipate marginalized communities”
Today’s cultural politics feature continual assertions of power through both symbolic and material practices as well as opposition and resistance to it. Current events involve spaces and communities across all geographic scales and position geographers well to question and understand what seems to be an increasingly carnivalesque and exclusionary world. This paper session seeks to consider and explore spatial and representational strategies used by disenfranchised communities in response to the marginalizing effects of economic, political, coercive, and symbolic power. Work that engages processes implicated in making assertions of power or the opposition or resistance to power present in the public imagination; in the formation, spatial exclusion, and contestation of communities; or, in the maintenance or effects of borders or trans-boundary flows is particularly encouraged. Theoretical engagements are welcome as well as focus on any place or space irrespective of location or extent. Communities and sites include but are not limited to:
- homes and the homeless;
- children and adolescents;
- persons labeled or diagnosed with disabilities;
- sites of violence and warfare;
- sites of detention, incarceration, or committal;
- minority groups including people of color or people of any ethnic or religious group;
- gender-based or LGBTQ communities;
- indigenous or stateless peoples; and,
- victims of human trafficking, human rights violations, or sexual violence.
If interested, please contact organizer Eric West (weste1@southernct.edu) with your 250 word abstract and AAG PIN by October 23, 2017. Some effort will be made to consider submissions that arrive later.