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John Pickard
Since their renewal in the 1980s, colonial and imperial studies have often focused on cultural representations and social practices. More recently, scholars have shown increased interest in the spatial dimensions of colonial phenomena, producing thematic atlases and analyzing imperial cartographies. Using the concept of appropriation, this call for papers seeks to stimulate further research on concrete connections between human interactions and spatial transformation in colonial and imperial settings.This multidisciplinary project focuses on modern (post)colonial and imperial spaces (19th–21st century), including both urban and rural environments. We aim at decrypting complex dynamics of spatial appropriation and their impact upon social relations. For instance, how does the radical transformation of a particular space impinge upon resource accessibility and use, local human experience and the construction of social identities?
An international conference on appropriating space in colonial and imperial contexts will be held at the Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme (MMSH), Aix-en-Provence, France, on 12-14 June 2017. The organizers invite paper proposals from a broad spectrum of humanities and social sciences, including history, geography, anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, and literature. Papers should preferably focus on -but are not limited to- one of the following aspects:
- Appropriation Modes: imaginaries, discourses, technologies, tools
- Historical Agents and Social Interactions : negotiation, conflict, accommodation, past and present social dynamics
- The Impact of Appropriation Processes: environmental, social, economic, political, and cultural effects
- Temporalities: moments, durations, paces of appropriation
- Sites and Scales: touring, territories, borders, articulating scales of social action with analytical scales
Various issues can be tackled within these general themes, such as:
Notions of public/private/sacred space, military conquest, mapping and statistics, land surveying, limits and borders, forms of property acquisition, the elaboration and implementation of new legal norms, land reforms, toponymy and naming policies, spatial orders and social segregation, population movements, transports and communications, the exploitation of natural resources, urban and rural planning, environmental policies, the development of tourism, uses of space, neighborship and belonging.
Please submit proposals in French or English consisting of a short CV (max. 4 pages) and a paper abstract (1-2 pages). Send these materials before September 30, 2016 to the following e-mail address:
A collective publication (an edited volume or a journal special issue) will be considered on the basis of the papers presented and discussed at the conference.
Read the full CFP in English: http://iremam.cnrs.fr/IMG/pdf/CFP_AppropriatingSpace2017-2.pdf