Territorialities, Spaces, Geographies új tematikus szám elérhető

Az International Political Sociology folyóirat szabadon elérhetővé tette új tematikus számát Territorialities, Spaces, Geographies címmel, a szerzők között szerepel Nisha Shah, John Agnew, Neil Brenner, Stuart Elden és Nick Vaughan-Williams:

This special issue presents a selection of work at the interstices between international relations and geography. It is an invitation for intensifying debates in International Political Sociology on transformations of space and scales, the use of geographical methods and concepts, and the nature and limits of geographical thought in international and global relations.

‘The international is a spatial category and has been invested by variable geographies. The world of the international is flat; a two-dimensional world of relations between sovereign states claiming exclusive power over their territory and people. The international also persistently and often violently draws lines between itself and its outside: worlds of colonies, the uncivilised, transnational networks, and others. Recently, topographic categories are increasingly challenged by topological modes of enacting spatial relations and by analyses foregrounding the importance of temporal practices and narratives.

This special issue samples an international political sociology that deploys and critically engages territorial, spatial, geographical modes of thinking and politics. What are the limits and transformations of spatial practices in contemporary politics? How are territorialities, borders, and lines invested in methods of governing and conceptions of order? What is the impact of foregrounding temporality and mobility on spatial categorizing of the international? How are geopolitics and territoriality produced?

Table of contents

The Territorial Trap of the Territorial Trap: Global  Transformation and the Problem of the State’s Two Territories
Nisha Shah

Henri Lefebvre on State, Space, Territory
Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden

Know-where: Geographies of Knowledge of World Politics
John Agnew

Space, Boundaries, and the Problem of Order: A View from Systems Theory
Jan Helmig, Oliver Kessler

Borders, Territory, Law
Nick Vaughan-Williams

Rethinking Community: Translation Space as a Departure from  Political Community
Reiko Shindo

Education and the Formation of Geopolitical  Subjects
Martin Muller

Think Locally, Act Globally
Terrence Lyons and Peter Mandaville

Border Architectures and Subjectivities: Call for Papers for AAA 2012 San Francisco

Call for Papers for AAA 2012 San Francisco

Border Architectures and Subjectivities: Global Reflections on ‘Border Milieus’

Panel Organisers: Tina Harris (University of Amsterdam) & Malini Sur
(Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research)

Between the excitement in the media over increases in transnational financial flows and alarming human rights violations under new security regimes, borders are becoming more and more relevant as sites of both mobility and enclosure (Heyman and Cunningham, 2004). These geographical edges of states are often the nerve centres of thriving informal commerce and financial flows, and, in more recent decades, zones of new technologies of identification, surveillance, and the frequent suspension of law. In this panel, we argue that the study of borders, border societies, and subjectivities that flow from borders can make critical contributions to the mobile turn or movement-driven social sciences (Urry and Buscher, 2009). We especially seek to explore new elements of connection and disjuncture that converge and produce ‘border milieus’ (Martinez, 1994). The panel proposes to interrogate the material bases of border architectures (such as fences, walls, checkpoints, military camps, and border roads) as objects of memory, artifacts of nation building, and as locations of everyday experiences of border crossings and exchange, bringing to light the multiple ways that on the ground experiences of border apparatuses contribute to the creation of borderland spaces. Contributors examine the varied ways in which these border architectures in heavily militarised border regions and war landscapes are animated, experienced and brought to life through recollections, trans-border friendship, transgendered subjectivities and transnational trade. We invite papers from warring and/or militarised border zones of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the Americas, and Europe that engage with current debates in the anthropology of globalization, mobility, and violence. We especially seek contributors who investigate border architectures and subjectivities, inspired mobility and impeded mobility, gender and sexuality, race and nation, and trans-border trade and exchange.

Please email abstracts (250 words maximum) to c.h.harris[at]uva[dot]nl and maliniaissr[at]gmail[dot]com by March 20, 2012.

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