3rd Global Conference: Space and Place (Exploring Critical Issues)
3rd Global Conference
Space and Place
Monday 3rd September ? Thursday 6th September 2012
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Call for Papers:
Questions of space and place affect the very way
in which we experience and recreate the world.
Wars are fought over both real and imagined
spaces; boundaries are erected against the "Other"
constructed in a lived landscape of division and
disenfranchisement; and ideology constructs a
national identity based upon the dialectics of
inclusion and exclusion. The construction of
space and place is also a fundamental aspect of
the creative arts either through the art of
reconstruction of a known space or in establishing
a relationship between the audience and the
performance. Politics, power and knowledge are
also fundamental components of space as is the
relationship between visibility and invisibility.
This new inter- and multi-disciplinary conference
project seeks to explore these and other topics
and open up a dialogue about the politics and
practices of space and place. We seek submissions
from a range of disciplines including archaeology,
architecture, urban geography, the visual and
creative arts, philosophy and politics and also
actively encourage practioners and non-academics
with an interest in the topic to participate.
We welcome traditional papers, preformed panels of
papers, workshop proposals and other forms of
performance ? recognising that different
disciplines express themselves in different
mediums. Submissions are sought on any aspect of
space and place, including the following:
1. Theorising Space and Place
~Philosophies and space and place
~Surveillance, sight and the panoptic structures
and spaces of contemporary life
~Rhizomatics and/or postmodernist constructions of
space as a "meshwork of paths" (Ingold: 2008)
~The relationship between spatiality and
temporality/space as a temporal-spatial event
(Massey: 2005)
~The language and semiotics of space and place
2. Situated Identities
~Gendered spaces including the tension between
domestic and public spheres
~Work spaces and hierarchies of power
~Geographies and archaeologies of space including
Orientalism and Occidentalism
~Ethnic spaces/ethnicity and space
~Disabled spaces/places
~Queer places and spaces
3. Contested spaces
~The politics and ideology of constructions and
discourses of space and place including the
construction of gated communities as a response to
real/imagined terrorism.
~The relationship between power, knowledge and the
construction of place and space
~Territorial wars, both real and imagined.
~The relationship between the global and the local
~Barriers, obstructions and disenfranchisement in
the construction of lived spaces
~Space and place from colonisation to globalisation
~Real and imagined maps/cartographies of place
~Transnational and translocal places
4. Representations of place and space
~Embodied/disembodied spaces
~Lived spaces and the architecture of identity
~Haunted spaces/places and non-spaces
~Set design and the construction of space in film,
television and theatre
~Authenticity and the reproduction/representation
of place in the creative arts
~Technology and developments in the representation
of space including new media technologies and 3D
technologies of viewing
~Future cities/futurology and space
~Representations of the urban and the city in the
media and creative arts
~Space in computer games
Papers on any other topic related to the theme
will also be considered.
This project will run concurrently with our
project on Reframing Punishment ? we welcome any
papers considering the problems or addressing
issues on Reframing Punishment and Space and Place
for a cross-over panel. We also welcome pre-formed
panels on any aspect of Space or Place or in
relation to crossover panel(s).
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
16th March 2012. If an abstract is accepted for
the conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 22nd June 2012. 300 word
abstracts should be submitted to the Organising
Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or
RTF formats, following this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to
10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: SP Abstract Submission
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using footnotes and any special formatting,
characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or
underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts
is planned for the end of the year. All accepted
abstracts will be included in this publication. We
acknowledge receipt and answer all paper proposals
submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us
in a week you should assume we did not receive
your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We
suggest, then, to look for an alternative
electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs:
Matt Melia
Conference Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Kingston University, United Kingdom
E-mail: [email protected]
Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader,
Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
E-mail: [email protected]
The conference is part of the 'Ethos' series of
research projects, which in turn belong to the
Critical Issues programmes of ID.Net. It aims to
bring together people from different areas and
interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions which are innovative and challenging.
All papers accepted for and presented at the
conference will be published in an ISBN eBook.
Selected papers may be invited to go forward for
development into 20-25 page chapters for
publication in a themed dialogic ISBN hard copy
volume.
For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/space-and-place/
For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/space-and-place/call-
for-papers/
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