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CFP: Association of American Geographers, Seattle 2011: Imperialism and space in the Americas: towards Deleuzian perspectives
| Location: | Washington, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2011-04-12 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-10-03 |
| Announcement ID: |
179399 |
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Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle 12th – 16th April 2011
Imperialism and space in the Americas: towards Deleuzian perspectives
European colonial and imperial endeavours played a key role in the emergence of space-as-surface as a dominant spatial imaginary. Whether created by the French, English or Iberians, colonial maps of the Americas project the illusion of European empires that were composed of vast, unified and homogeneous territorial expanses. In practice, however, imperial and colonial spaces were characterized by complex intersections and overlappings of multiple spatialities that operated at diverse scales ranging from the local to the transatlantic and even the global. Recent years have witnessed an upsurge of interest amongst scholars in drawing on and developing networked and relational understandings of space in an effort to explore these complex and fractured spatialities and, in doing so, to bring to light the multiple agencies that were at work in the establishment and maintenance of imperial formations. The geophilosophical vocabularies of Deleuze and Guattari offer a rich but as yet underutilized tool for developing nuanced and decolonial understandings of the production of imperial space in the New World. In what ways might these vocabularies allow critical understandings of the spatialities of imperial rule and colonial governmentalities to be advanced? How might they help to provide new insights into the connections and relations between colonial territories and metropolitan centres, and into the workings of colonial power? We invite paper proposals that explore these and other related questions in the context of the Americas. Papers may explore any region or time period.
Convenors:
Jason Payton (University of Maryland) jpayton1@mac.com
Heidi Scott (Aberystwyth University) hvs@aber.ac.uk
Please send paper proposals to Jason or Heidi by 16th October 2011
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Heidi V. Scott
Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences
Aberystwyth University
Aberystwyth SY23 3DB
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1970 622647
Email: hvs@aber.ac.uk
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