Call for Papers (CfP): Remembering, Reimagining Political Space

Institute of Australian Geographers & New Zealand Geographical Society Combined Conference

6-9 July, 2021, University of Sydney

The Institute of Australian Geographers and New Zealand Geographical Society Combined Conference will take place at the University of Sydney on stolen, unceded lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation.

Remembering, Reimagining Geography

The conference theme, Remembering, Reimagining Geography, is offered as an opportunity to critically consider how geography evolved the way it did, its influences on human and more-than-human worlds, and the contribution the discipline can make to more just and sustainable futures. Further details: HERE.

Session and Call for Papers

Ari Jerrems and Adam David Morton welcome papers related to the following call:

Political space, understood as the frameworks, infrastructures and geographies through which politics is exercised, has long been the site of intense contestation. In recent times, dominant constellations have been challenged by an array of social movements with diverse objectives, from contesting extractivism to forging spaces of autonomy and defending Indigenous sovereignties. At the same time, there have been numerous violent reassertions of state power often upholding colonial hierarchies and the interests of capital. To make sense of the current political landscape this session builds on the conference theme, bringing together papers seeking to remember and reimagine political space. On the one hand, papers will analyse the constitution of dominant notions of territory and sovereignty, from the violent bordering practices through which they are defended to the colonial imaginaries and violent histories underpinning them. On the other hand, papers will attempt to think political space otherwise, building on the imaginaries and practices of diverse thinkers, movements and anti-colonial struggles.

Deadline: 5 April, 2021

Please contact: Ari Jerrems (Monash University)
ari.jerrems@monash.edu

Set Image: Dale Harding, SPINE 3 (RADIANCE), 2018

Author: Ari Jerrems

Dr Ari Jerrems is an early career researcher who teaches International Relations at Monash University. His research is at the intersection of International Relations, Human Geography and Political Theory, focusing on changing notions of political space and citizenship.

Author: Adam David Morton

Adam David Morton is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. He is author of Unravelling Gramsci: Hegemony and Passive Revolution in the Global Political Economy (2007); Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development (2011), recipient of the 2012 Book Prize of the British International Studies Association (BISA) International Political Economy Group (IPEG); and co-author of Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis (2018) with Andreas Bieler. The volume Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography is out in 2022 with University of Minnesota Press, co-edited with Stuart Elden.

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Call for Papers (CfP): Remembering, Reimagining Political Space