Forum publication: Reinvigorating social geographies? Papers from the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group sponsored conference, organised by Darren Smith, Kath Browne and David Bissell held in Brighton in 2009, are now published in the journal of Social and Cultural Geography. The forum includes the following papers. Many of these will need an institutional subscription [...]
The final list of SCGRG sponsored sessions for the 2012 RGS/IBG conference is now available. The RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2012 takes place at the University of Edinburgh from Tuesday 3 to Thursday 5 July 2012. The chair of conference is Professor Chris Philo (University of Glasgow). The conference theme is ‘Security of Geography/Geography of [...]
Social and Cultural Geographies in a Time of Crisis A discussion panel convened by Ben Anderson and the SCGRG How should social and cultural geography respond to a world that is either in crisis or where various events and situations are now framed in terms of crisis? How do social and cultural geographers understand the [...]
Call for Statements: RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2012, University of Edinburgh, 3-5 July Social and Cultural Geographies of Impact Sponsored by the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG) What is ‘impact’? How do we evidence ‘impact’? What makes ‘impactful’ research? How do those outside the academy understand ‘impact’? What are the stakes of ‘impact’ for [...]
RGS-IBG Conference, Edinburgh 3rd – 5th July 2012 Call for Papers: Writing and doing human geography research in Greece during a turbulent decade: From the ‘relative security’ of fragmented neoliberalization to the ‘insecurity’ of the Greek debt crisis Mr Lazaros Karaliotas Lazaros.karaliotas@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk Mr Georgios Tzimas Georgios.Tzimas@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester. Since [...]
Licensing spaces, things and people RGS-IBG Conference, Edinburgh 3rd – 5th July 2012 Sponsored by the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group Organisers: James Kneale, UCL, and David Beckingham, University of Cambridge How do states ensure security without directly intervening in the affairs of individuals? Several decades of discussion have expanded our conception of governmentality, [...]
Call for Papers: Home Unmaking RGS-IBG Conference, Edinburgh 3rd – 5th July 2012 Sponsored by: Social and Cultural Geography Research Group Organisers: Katherine Brickell (Royal Holloway University of London) katherine.brickell@rhul.ac.uk; Richard Baxter (Queen Mary University of London) r.baxter@qmul.ac.uk Recent months have been dominated by news stories and visual images of home and its ‘unmaking’. From [...]
Call for Papers: More-than-human geographies: from coexistence to conflict and killing RGS-IBG Conference, Edinburgh 3rd – 5th July 2012 Sponsored by: Social and Cultural Geography Research Group Organisers: Uli Beisel (LSHTM), Franklin Ginn (Edinburgh), Maan Barua (Oxford) Discussants: Gail Davies (UCL), Steve Pile (OU) This session invites reflections on human-nonhuman relations that are marked by [...]
Over the next week, we will be posting the calls for papers and other news on the SCGRG sponsored sessions for the 2012 RGS/IBG conference. Thank you to everyone who submitted session ideas to us. We are delighted to be sponsoring a range of innovative slots for the summer. Ludic Geographies Tara Woodyer, University of [...]
The RGS has now published its call for sessions for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2012 which takes place at the University of Edinburgh from Tuesday 3 to Thursday 5 July 2012. The chair of conference is Professor Chris Philo (University of Glasgow). The conference theme is ‘Security of Geography/Geography of Security’. General Information [...]
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