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We seek interdisciplinary scholars working on the spatial production of whiteness to participate in a series of sessions at the 2012 AAG in New York, NY. Through these sessions we hope to elucidate the shared processes through which whiteness is produced as a racial category across time and place. A wide variety of approaches is most welcomed. What new insights about the spatial production of whiteness might come as a result of considering practices and processes across diverse contexts? How might considering the consolidation of whiteness in both its ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ manifestations sharpen our analysis? What new appreciations might we develop about the spatialization of whiteness in a supposedly ‘color-blind’ and ‘post-racial’ world – what is new, and what stays the same?
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
• Representations of whiteness in photography and cartography
• The spatialization of whiteness through design, architecture, and urban planning practices
• Expressions and constructions of whiteness in vernacular landscapes
• Whiteness in/through the state (i.e. historical and contemporary practices of population whitening; political discourse; social service provision)
• The articulation of whiteness through neocolonial and neoliberal development and modernization
• Whiteness, transportation, and mobility
• White privilege in resource use and mobilization
• Practices of whiteness in progressive social movements and non-governmental organizations
• Spatial dimensions of white anti-racism
Please send a proposed paper title, author affiliation, and 250-word abstract by September 1, 2011 to Laura Barraclough, Assistant Professor, Kalamazoo College at lbarrac@kzoo.edu. For information on the full conference, visit www.aag.org and click on “Annual Meeting.”
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