Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
Emotion, Space, and Indigenous Populations
4th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional
Geographies
1-3 July 2013
University of Groningen, Netherlands
Organizers of a session entitled "Emotion, Space, and Indigenous Populations"
announce a call for abstracts. The session will be convened at the 4th
International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies,
scheduled for 1-3 July 2013 at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
Many interpretations of the term 'postcolonial' neglect the fact that before the
arrival of Europeans, there were preexistent traditions/cultures in former
colonies such as Canada, Australia, and South Africa. In many cases, the word
postcolonial thus primarily serves to reinforce the legacy of colonization. As an
alternative, native Canadian novelist Thomas King proposes a non-centered method
to include locally identified and marginal voices by presenting new descriptors
that avoid privileging one culture over another.
In this session, new vantage points are explored to study not only literary but
also cultural, anthropological, geographical, social, and other landscapes in
which Indigenous communities are living today. Land and/or territory are not only
crucial for the survival of Indigenous peoples, but they also have a symbolic
meaning for many communities that do not live on their ancestral land. In order
to discuss the emotional effects of recent developments such as migration and
urbanization of Indigenous peoples, it is essential to reflect on representations
of space and on the relationship between identity and physical and social
environment.
Organizers welcome papers that discuss spatial knowledge of Indigenous
communities and their culturally distinct understanding of landscape through the
concept of participatory mapping, that identify and explore Indigenous heritage
places, that examine geopolitical issues and Indigenous governance, that focus on
land boundaries and border crossings from a wide range of perspectives and within
a variety of domains such as arctic studies, anthropology, cultural and social
geography, literary and minority studies.
Anyone interested in presenting during this session should please send an
abstract of approximately 300 words to Jeanette den Toonder
(j.m.l.den.toonder@rug.nl).
Abstract submission deadline: Tuesday, 15 January 2013.
For questions, please contact:
Jeanette den Toonder
Email: j.m.l.den.toonder@rug.nl