Call for Papers – Association of American Geographers Conference 2016, San Francisco, 29 March – 2 April 2016
Fulfilling The Promise of Anarchist Geographies
Organizers
Ant Ince (Cardiff University)
Simon Springer (University of Victoria)
Nathan Clough (University of Minnesota Duluth)
Richard J White (Sheffield Hallam University)
Patricia Wood (York University)
Vanessa Sloan Morgan (Queen’s University)
Marcelo Lopes de Souza (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Outline
The re-emergence of anarchist perspectives has been one of the most significant new developments in critical geography over the last few years. Two journal special issues in 2012 (Clough and Blumberg 2012; Springer et al. 2012) galvanised a diverse set of anarchist- inspired geographers and set the scene for a range of scholarship to emerge, including studies of non-capitalist economies (Ince 2015; White 2013), historical geographies (Ferretti 2013; 2014), political praxis (Curran and Gibson 2013), neoliberalism (Springer 2013), the state (Ince and Barrera forthcoming), governance (Gorostiza et al. 2013; Wilkin and Boudeau 2015), postcoloniality/decoloniality (Barker 2013), urbanism (Lopes de Sousa 2014), and a reassessment of our discipline’s radical potential (Springer 2016), among others.
New ideas and concepts have emerged through this renewed interest in anarchism, which promises to transform the intellectual landscape of geography as we know it. This growing maturity and diversity of anarchist thought, however, has been characterized by a heavy focus on theory. As scholars identifying with anarchist traditions, we feel it is both timely and vitally important to explore critically and in greater depth what these theoretical and conceptual innovations mean for academic praxis – in the empirical, as well as pedagogical and methodological, dimensions of geographical scholarship.
We therefore invite empirically grounded research presentations that utilize anarchist and left-libertarian frameworks, addressing themes including but not limited to:
• Colonialism, postcolonialism, and decolonization
• Economic geographies and sharing economies
• Post-humanist, more-than-human, and critical animal geographies
• Gender and feminisms
• Queer geographies and sexuality
• Authority, power, and the state
• Pedagogy, learning, and teaching
• Social movements, publics, and collective agency
• Mobilities, migration, and multicultural societies
• Critical geopolitics, anti-geopolitics, and alter-geopolitics
• The politics of everyday life and prefiguration
• Cooperation and the practice of mutual aid
• The commons and communing
• Intersectionality and identity
We also welcome presentations in non-traditional and participatory formats. Also, if you would like to participate in other ways (e.g. discussant) then please feel free to contact us as well.
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to InceA@cardiff.ac.uk, spring
Please note: Once you have submitted an abstract to us and it is accepted, you will also need to register AND submit an abstract on the AAG website. The AAG abstract deadline is 29 October 2015: