FW: Second CfP RGS IBG Place and Identity: Challenging narratives on the Sea and Blue Growth

[Cass, Noel]

Hi all,

 

This CfP seems like a good match for ISSMER members?

 

Best,

 

Noel

 

From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [mailto:CRIT-GE...@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Germond-Duret, Celine
Sent: 06 February 2017 09:57
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Subject: Second CfP RGS IBG Place and Identity: Challenging narratives on the Sea and Blue Growth

 

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Call for Papers, 2017 RGS-IBG Annual Conference (29 August – 1 September 2017)

 

“Place and Identity: Challenging narratives on the Sea and Blue Growth”

 

Convenors: Celine Germond-Duret (Liverpool John Moores University, UK), Emma McKinley (Cardiff University, UK), Carole White (University of East Anglia, UK)

 

Sponsored by: Coastal and Marine Research Group

 

Description:

The sea has traditionally been represented as placeless, an ‘empty’ space outside of human and social experience, resulting in little consideration by Human Geography and other social sciences and a sense of disconnection. The blue growth narrative and practice of the recent years have engendered an increased interest in the sea. However, it is still very much approached in an instrumental way and seen above all as a resource, and not as a constitutive or constituent of identity.

This vision needs to be questioned, discussed and challenged. Considering the sea as placeless is very much Western-centred and does not take into consideration perceptions and practice by other societies, including traditional communities, notably in the Global South, that may not be as terra-centric. Fishermen, sailors and migrants are other examples of people whose identity is linked to their experience of, at and from the sea. For example, the identity of fishing communities (i.e. those who work at sea and live by the sea) can probably be said to strongly relate to the sea. Daily encounter with the marine element (either at sea fishing or at home facing the waterfront and waiting for the return of loved ones) and the dependence on the sea for living have strong impacts on those communities’ identity. More strikingly, ‘boat people’, as represented by the media, are often associated with boats and their attempts at crossing the sea; their identity is often reduced to the act of crossing the sea (and dying at sea). 

We welcome papers discussing a range of topics, including but not limited to people’s connection to the sea (whereas they are sea users, sea inhabitants or sea lovers, in the UK and internationally); the placelessness/placefulness of the sea (how to determine, what implications); and social perceptions of the sea by the general public. The session contributes to the conference theme by discussing and deconstructing the practical, symbolic and academic colonization of the sea by the land.

 

Abstract submission:

To submit a paper proposal for this session, please send an abstract of 250 words to Celine Germond-Duret (c.v.germ...@ljmu.ac.uk ) by February 10th. Following a review by the CMRG committee, successful applicants will be notified by February 14th if their paper will be included in the Session proposal.

 

All postgraduate presenters will be eligible for inclusion in our Annual PGR Presentation Competition, which has a prize from the CMRG of £120. Information about previous winners can be found on the CMRG website: https://coastalmarineresearchgroup.wordpress.com/annual-crmg-postgraduate-researcher-presentation-competition

 

 

 

Dr Celine Germond-Duret, FRGS FHEA Senior Lecturer in Human Geography   Phone: +44 (0) 151 231 2426  Email: C.V.Germ...@ljmu.ac.uk

  School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Office 331, James Parsons Building, Byrom Street, Liverpool, L3 3AF, UK

 

 

 

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