| March 2009: 3Cs presents at AAG |
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3Cs will be at the 2009 AAG in Las Vegas! Part of a series on “Anarchism, Autonomia, and the Spatiality of Revolutionary Politics and Theory” The call for the series: Despite the fact that the first two radical geographers, Peter Kropotkin and Elisee Recluse, were also the most famous anarchists of their time, radical geography has generally had a relatively limited engagement with anti-authoritarian radicalisms. In the past decade scholars such as Todd May, Richard Day, and David Graeber have begun to rethink anarchism, finding strong affinities between anarchist theory and the practices and politics of emergent global social movements, as well as myriad connections between anarchism and post-structural, feminist, and queer theories. Additionally, the emergence of Italian Autonomous Marxism onto the Anglophone academic scene offers new theoretical tools for tying anti-authoritarian politics to a materialist critique of capital and the state. However radical geography, which is dominated by neo-Gramscian perspectives, has largely ignored the potential and actual contributions of anti-hegemonic radicalisms to geographic theory. Similarly, within anarchist and autonomous thought there has been a distinct lack of work that rigorously addresses the constitutive spatialities of anti-hegemonic movements and theories. We think that both anarchism and geography can benefit from a long over-due encounter, and hope that these sessions can help to bring anarchist theory and practice into renewed and sustained conversation with the mainstream of radical geography. This is a call for papers that examine and critically interrogate the spaces, politics, and praxes of the new geographies of anarchism. We welcome theoretical or empirical engagements with anarchist, anti-authoritarian, and autonomous theory and practice. Tuesday, March 24 - panel: "Where have all the pictures gone? Visualization and power in political geography"
The question 'where have all the pictures gone' was reputedly posed recently by a senior editor of the journal Political Geography. If there is indeed a lack of maps in our publications or even if there is only the perception that this is the case, it should give political geographers pause and cause to engage in a debate about the role of visualization and power. Why would power be less and less represented in maps and images when new technologies make it easier and easier to produce them? The contradiction between a possible dearth of visualization in political geography and the ease of producing images becomes even more fascinating when it is contextualized in the current disciplinary engagement with cartographic representation. At a time when geospatial visualization is rapidly expanding in physical geography and other parts of the human side, when cartography re-imagines maps as subversion and consumptive practices, when military geography engages with maps in the projection, consolidation, and justification of military power, political geography cannot remain content with simply deconstructing maps and images - and certainly not with deconstructing mappings in the form of textual geographs rather than visual ones. Moreover, historically, poliitcal geography distinguished itself from political science in its use of and engagement with maps - a paucity of maps would thus herald a possible conflation of our subdiscipline and political science.
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