Fw: AAG 2001 CALL FOR PAPERS

>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>POST-MARXIST HUMAN GEOGRAPHIES
>
>AAG ANNUAL CONFERENCE: NEW YORK, 2001 (27th FEB – MARCH 3rd)
>
>Convenors:
>
> 1. Dr Richard Smith (rgs10@le.ac.uk)
> 2. Dr Marcus Doel   (m.a.doel@lboro.ac.uk)
>
>Despite the enormous influence of Marxism on human geography there have
been
>few attempts to specify and assess the innumerable departures from Marxism
>in recent decades. We aim to bring together human geographers interested in
>post-Marxist theory and practice: some of whom may envisage their work as
>breaking with Marxism, while others may see their work as a continuation
>and/or radicalization of Marxism. The sessions will explore the potential
of
>post-Marxian human geographies in terms of theory, politics, and practice,
>and consider the extent to which contemporary human geography expresses a
>‘Marxian political unconscious.’
>
>Possible themes for papers include:
>
>The limits, crises, and aporias of Marxism
>The heterogeneity and incommensurability of Marxisms
>Beyond class reductionism and economic determinism
>Feminist and post-colonial interventions
>Doing justice to the politics of difference and anti-essentialist Marxisms
>Rethinking modes of production and reproduction
>Political economy after the cultural turn
>Radical democracy
>Post-isms
>
>In addition to these themes, papers may wish to address reactions to
Marxism
>in the work of authors such as: Adorno, Arendt, Aronowitz, Balibar,
Bardhan,
>Baudrillard, Bauman, Benjamin, Callinicos, Coward, Deleuze, Derrida,
Elster,
>Forgacs, Foucault, Geras, Guattari, Habermas, Hall, Hartmann, Hindess,
>Hirst, Irigaray, Laclau, Lyotard, Mouffe, Pzeworski, Ramazanoglu, Roemer,
>Touraine, Walby, and Walker. Clearly, the multiplicity of reactions has not
>produced an homogeneous post-Marxism. However, as human geographers we can
>begin to work through this unstable constellation of departures from
Marxism
>in the hope of new kinds of geography.
>
>Prospective titles and abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent
to
>either of the convenors by 1st June 2000.
>
>__________________________
>1. Dr Richard Smith, Department of Geography, University of Leicester,
>University Road, Leicester, England, LE1 7RH
>2. Dr Marcus Doel, Department of Geography, Loughborough University,
>Leicestershire, England, LE11 3TU
>
>Dr Richard Smith PhD (Bristol),
>Lecturer in Human Geography,
>Department of Geography, University of Leicester, University Road,
>Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
>Tel: +44 (0)116 252 3845
>Fax: +44 (0) 116 252 3854
>Email: rgs10@le.ac.uk
>(Note: away in New York until May 10th)