Communication Geography Specialty Group of the AAG

Geopolitics, Globalization and the Representation of Place

Geographies of Media (now including Cinematic and Televisual Geographies)

Islands: Isolated Outliers or Critical Nodes of Contact?

Last day for Session Registration: October 16, 2004

This session will address the discursive construction of places in relation to the highly politicized international environment of the early 21st century. Themes of nationalism, regionalism and globalization will be equally relevant and various media of communication are appropriate for consideration including print and broadcast news media, the Internet, presidential speeches and press releases, and various forms of artwork and insurgent communication. Questions relating to the evolving meaning of national sovereignty in the post-cold-war era are particularly welcome.

Relevant topics:
•terrorists and “rogue states” in government discourses •news about international issues and relations
•international intelligence flows and police
cooperation
•nationalist rhetoric and its impact on foreign
relations
•public debate about US unilateralism
•Islamist communication networks and worldviews
•Cold War alliances as a topic of discussion and
debate
•debate about the US invasion of Afghanistan
•debate about the US war in Iraq
•discussion of the past and future of NATO
•discussion of the past and future of the EU
•discussion of the future of national sovereignty in
the post-cold-war era
•the political role of political documentaries such as
Fahrenheit 9-11

To present a paper you must do the following before October 16th, 2004

1. Compose an abstract following the AAG guidelines
and submit it for consideration to Paul Adams at: paul.adams@mail.utexas.edu http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/call_for_papers/abstract_instructions.htm

2. If approved, register online with the AAG to obtain a personal ID number http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/Denver2005/reg.cfm

3. Email Presenter Identification Number (PIN) and final abstract (before
October 16th, 2004) to Paul Adams at paul.adams@mail.utexas.edu

Meeting Second Call For Papers for 2005 AAG Annual Meeting
Last Day for Session Registration: October 21, 2004
Geographies of Media (now including Cinematic and Televisual Geographies)

Note: to avoid session overlapping, we are combining this Media CFP with the previous Cinematic and Televisual Geographies CFP - previously submitted abstracts to the Cinematic sessions need NOT be resubmitted.

We are seeking papers that examine geographies of the various forms of media, including cinema, television, music, art, advertising, newspapers and magazines, video and animation etc. These sessions should include contributions to current issues surrounding these media, beginning with constructions of space, culture, society, and identity within textual realms. We are hoping to present a wide range of both topic and context and seek participants interested in the geographical implications - social, political, cultural, and economic - that are often contained within the spaces and places of different forms of media. Media extend beyond their original form and so papers should also envision these geographies as part of a broader industrial and political complex in which culture is an economic commodity set within the broader frame of a global and postmodern era, and with the links between these realms and our daily lived experiences, from our cities to streets to living rooms to imaginations. These contexts invite inquiries into the production, distribution, exhibition, and consumption of all types of media and we encourage critical, pedagogical and discursive contributions. Our 2003 sessions were very well-attended with a wide variety of topics followed by excellent discussion periods and we expect the same again this year. To present a paper you must do the following before October 21, 2004

1. Compose an abstract following the AAG guidelines at: http://www.aag.org/PDF/cfp2001.pdf http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/call_for_papers/abstract_instructions.htm

2. Register online with the AAG to obtain a personal ID number http://convention.allacademic.com/aag2002/ http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/index.htm

3. Print registration form and mail to AAG with your non-refundable Program Participation Fee: AAG Annual Meeting, 1710 Sixteenth Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20009-3198

4. Email Presenter Identification Number (PIN) and Abstract before October 21, 2004 to: Ed Jackiewicz at: ed.jackiewicz@csun.edu Jim Craine at: jwc53531@rohan.sdsu.edu Chris Lukinbeal: lukinbeal@asu.edu For further information please contact: Ed Jackiewicz: ed.jackiewicz@csun.edu James Craine: jwc53531@rohan.sdsu.edu Chris Lukinbeal: lukinbeal@asu.edu

Organizers: Phil Steinberg, Florida State University; Eric Clark, Lund University
Traditionally, cultural ecologists and biogeographers (as well as anthropologists and biologists) have viewed islands as isolated entities. At worst, they were curious outliers to the mainland space where "regular" social and biological interactions transpired. At best, they were conveniently protected laboratories for studying "pure" communities (of humans or other species) without outside contamination.

More critical scholarship on islands has inverted the assumption of island insularity. Instead of viewing islands as uniquely isolated, they are viewed as sites of contact amidst webs of movement and interaction, a perspective that easily merges with biological theories that stress network dynamics, dispersal, connectivity, and border zones of interaction; social theories that stress the significance of places that serve as nodes within the web of flows that constitute contemporary social life; and cultural theories that stress borderland and hybrid identities forged by destabilized and moving individuals and that privilege "routes" over "roots."

For this session (or sessions), we seek papers that join case studies with theoretical inquiries. Our overall goal is to locate the geographic study of islands within broader questions regarding the role of islands in cultural, social, and biological theory. Through these theoretical engagements, we hope to explore the role of islands as metaphor, laboratory, and/or model for understanding a changing world that includes and unites islands, mainlands, and oceans.

If you are interested in participating in this session, please contact Phil Steinberg at steinberg@fsu.edu or Eric Clark at eric.clark@keg.lu.se.


	Calls for Papers for the 2005 Denver AAG Meeting
	Geopolitics, Globalization and the Representation of Place Geographies of Media (now including Cinematic and Televisual Geographies) Islands: Isolated Outliers or Critical Nodes of Contact? “Geopolitics, Globalization and the Representation of Place” A Paper Session for the 2005 AAG Meeting, Denver, Colorado Sponsored by the Communication Geography Specialty Group Last day for Session Registration: October 16, 2004 This session will address the discursive construction of places in relation to the highly politicized international environment of the early 21st century. Themes of nationalism, regionalism and globalization will be equally relevant and various media of communication are appropriate for consideration including print and broadcast news media, the Internet, presidential speeches and press releases, and various forms of artwork and insurgent communication. Questions relating to the evolving meaning of national sovereignty in the post-cold-war era are particularly welcome. Relevant topics: •terrorists and “rogue states” in government discourses •news about international issues and relations •international intelligence flows and police cooperation •nationalist rhetoric and its impact on foreign relations •public debate about US unilateralism •Islamist communication networks and worldviews •Cold War alliances as a topic of discussion and debate •debate about the US invasion of Afghanistan •debate about the US war in Iraq •discussion of the past and future of NATO •discussion of the past and future of the EU •discussion of the future of national sovereignty in the post-cold-war era •the political role of political documentaries such as Fahrenheit 9-11 To present a paper you must do the following before October 16th, 2004 1. Compose an abstract following the AAG guidelines and submit it for consideration to Paul Adams at: paul.adams@mail.utexas.edu http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/call_for_papers/abstract_instructions.htm 2. If approved, register online with the AAG to obtain a personal ID number http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/Denver2005/reg.cfm 3. Email Presenter Identification Number (PIN) and final abstract (before October 16th, 2004) to Paul Adams at paul.adams@mail.utexas.edu Meeting Second Call For Papers for 2005 AAG Annual Meeting Last Day for Session Registration: October 21, 2004 Geographies of Media (now including Cinematic and Televisual Geographies) Note: to avoid session overlapping, we are combining this Media CFP with the previous Cinematic and Televisual Geographies CFP - previously submitted abstracts to the Cinematic sessions need NOT be resubmitted. We are seeking papers that examine geographies of the various forms of media, including cinema, television, music, art, advertising, newspapers and magazines, video and animation etc. These sessions should include contributions to current issues surrounding these media, beginning with constructions of space, culture, society, and identity within textual realms. We are hoping to present a wide range of both topic and context and seek participants interested in the geographical implications - social, political, cultural, and economic - that are often contained within the spaces and places of different forms of media. Media extend beyond their original form and so papers should also envision these geographies as part of a broader industrial and political complex in which culture is an economic commodity set within the broader frame of a global and postmodern era, and with the links between these realms and our daily lived experiences, from our cities to streets to living rooms to imaginations. These contexts invite inquiries into the production, distribution, exhibition, and consumption of all types of media and we encourage critical, pedagogical and discursive contributions. Our 2003 sessions were very well-attended with a wide variety of topics followed by excellent discussion periods and we expect the same again this year. To present a paper you must do the following before October 21, 2004 1. Compose an abstract following the AAG guidelines at: http://www.aag.org/PDF/cfp2001.pdf http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/call_for_papers/abstract_instructions.htm 2. Register online with the AAG to obtain a personal ID number http://convention.allacademic.com/aag2002/ http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/index.htm 3. Print registration form and mail to AAG with your non-refundable Program Participation Fee: AAG Annual Meeting, 1710 Sixteenth Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20009-3198 4. Email Presenter Identification Number (PIN) and Abstract before October 21, 2004 to: Ed Jackiewicz at: ed.jackiewicz@csun.edu Jim Craine at: jwc53531@rohan.sdsu.edu Chris Lukinbeal: lukinbeal@asu.edu For further information please contact: Ed Jackiewicz: ed.jackiewicz@csun.edu James Craine: jwc53531@rohan.sdsu.edu Chris Lukinbeal: lukinbeal@asu.edu Call for Papers for 2005 AAG Annual Meeting Islands: Isolated Outliers or Critical Nodes of Contact? Organizers: Phil Steinberg, Florida State University; Eric Clark, Lund University Traditionally, cultural ecologists and biogeographers (as well as anthropologists and biologists) have viewed islands as isolated entities. At worst, they were curious outliers to the mainland space where "regular" social and biological interactions transpired. At best, they were conveniently protected laboratories for studying "pure" communities (of humans or other species) without outside contamination. More critical scholarship on islands has inverted the assumption of island insularity. Instead of viewing islands as uniquely isolated, they are viewed as sites of contact amidst webs of movement and interaction, a perspective that easily merges with biological theories that stress network dynamics, dispersal, connectivity, and border zones of interaction; social theories that stress the significance of places that serve as nodes within the web of flows that constitute contemporary social life; and cultural theories that stress borderland and hybrid identities forged by destabilized and moving individuals and that privilege "routes" over "roots." For this session (or sessions), we seek papers that join case studies with theoretical inquiries. Our overall goal is to locate the geographic study of islands within broader questions regarding the role of islands in cultural, social, and biological theory. Through these theoretical engagements, we hope to explore the role of islands as metaphor, laboratory, and/or model for understanding a changing world that includes and unites islands, mainlands, and oceans. If you are interested in participating in this session, please contact Phil Steinberg at steinberg@fsu.edu or Eric Clark at eric.clark@keg.lu.se.
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