CFP: IR Conference Section on Shifting, Melting, Rising, and Geo-Engineered Boundaries
Register/Submit Deadline: Thursday, Jan 15, 201511:08 PMEDT
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Organised by the European International Studies Association in cooperation with the University of Catani, the Programme Chairs of the 9th Pan-European Conference on International Relations (Sep23-26, 2015 at the University of Catania) in collaboration with Section Chair Lukas Pauer, Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at RMIT University, invite paper, panel, and roundtable proposals for submission to the ‘Securing the Atmospheric: On Shifting, Melting, Rising, and Geo-Engineered Boundaries’ section on the 2015 programme. The conference invites contributions that can speak to the ontological, interdisciplinary, political, and epistemic dimensions and implications of research on violence. Its academic programme will be organised in the usual format of sections composed of panels.
Selected proposals will also be considered for inclusion in the forthcoming book ‘Growing Islands Growing Nations’, edited by Lukas Pauer as part of the RMIT LA Design Research Series at Melbourne Books. Melbourne Books is an independent publishing house that produces works of both nonfiction and fiction. In partnership with RMIT University, Melbourne Books publishes topical, highly-designed books in the fields of landscape architecture, art and design.
Spatial practice has become central to the geopolitics of claiming sovereignty through establishing a territorial footprint. As entire nations are confined and defined by precise natural borders, peaks, glacial ridges, shorelines, sand depositions, and the meeting of air and sea have been marked, altered, and colonized by systems of control that played a fundamental role in the definition of the modern sovereign state. Where geographic or atmospheric processes are the basis for a shifting definition of territory, climate change and contested resource claims will have a very literal effect on the size and shape of nations. New concepts of movable borders have thus been introduced into national legislation, recognizing the volatility of any material geography through regular alterations of the physical benchmarks that determine the exact frontier. In these cases, the relationship between representation, survey, cartography, and geography is especially relevant in the context of borders, which are not permanently determined but actually shift back and forth. Where and when do representational methods coincide with physical realities? How can we position ourselves as mediator between the representational and the material means? If security has to contend with volume, how does thinking about the atmospheric instead of surfaces, three dimensions instead of territories change how we think about the geopolitics of space? As territories are bordered, divided and demarcated, but not understood in terms of their altitudinal dimension, this section aims to investigate how borders can become complex systems in evolution, whose physical manifestations coincide with the terms of their representation.
The section welcomes both individual paper proposals as well as panel/roundtable proposals from scholars from all fields of spatial practice, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, urban planning, international studies and beyond, as well as practitioners who aim to contribute to scholarly debates on the themes explored in the section. Each 105-minute panel/roundtable should comprise five papers/presenters plus a discussant who will also act as panel/roundtable chair. Proposals with abstracts of max. 200 words must be submitted until Jan15, 2015 via the online submission system:
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Dec8, 2014
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Jan15, 2015
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