Frankfurt am Main: Wem gehört die Stadt?

»Die Frage, welche Stadt wir wollen, lässt sich nicht von der Frage trennen, was für Menschen wir sein wollen, welche sozialen Beziehungen wir anstreben, (...)« David Harvey wemgehoertdiestadt.net De r Slogan des Netzwerks »Wem gehört die Stadt?« stellt in erster Linie Eigentumsverhältnisse in Frage, und ist die Provokation, mit der wir in den städtischen Raum intervenieren wollen. Gehört die ...

RaGeo: Kritik, Theorie & Praxis - Geographie machen

rageo.twoday.net RaGeo ist eine Blog- Initiative zur Förderung und Verbreitung von kritischen, emanzipatorischen und progressiven Ansätzen innerhalb der wissenschaftlichen Disziplin Geographie. Weiter dient RaGeo als offene Plattform zur Bereitstellung kritischer Arbeiten, Ankündigungen von Veranstaltungen, Veröffentlichung von Diskussionsbeiträgen, aufschalten interessanter Artikel etc.

Theme 10: Europe and its Others?

Keywords: Questioning 'Europe' and 'Europeanization'; Europe's borders and beyond; European geopolitics/Europe in the World; Geo-histories of European imperialism and colonisation; Europes elsewhere and Europe's elsewheres … What do we mean by the term ‘Europe’ today? This theme invites session and paper proposals that engage with the changing geographies of Europe and its ‘place’ in today’s world. ...

Theme 9: Babel-crisis – Critique through translation?

Keywords: science and the diversity of languages – problem or chance?, critical potential of translation, multilingual experimentation ... Why are we writing this text in English? Despite the incredible language diversity among social scientists it is usually assumed that English is the language of the international social science and geography. The domination of the English language involves many ...

Theme 8: Universities /Geography in Crisis

Keywords: economization and neoliberalisation of universities and (higher) education, “excellence”, situation of critical and radical geographies, social movements and academia, radical teaching and pedagogy ... Universities, teaching/learning and research are undergoing significant transformations. Key phrases like the casualisation of academic labour, the neoliberalisation of education institutions, ...

Theme 7: Mobilities in crisis

keywords: mobility/immobility, migration, place, scale, migration policies, migration strategies … Call for Participation: We invite papers and special sessions addressing the contemporary politics of mobility/immobility at a variety of scales; how do such (re)configurations necessitate new theoretical conceptualizations? In particular, we seek to inspire critical conversations around the theoretical ...

Theme 6: Geopolitics, Biopolitics, and the Critical Spaces of the Political

Keywords: critical geopolitics, biopolitics, borders/security, war on terror, camp(s), imperialism, military geographies, counter cartographies, critical theory and/in space, spatial theory and totalitarianism, critical spatial theory and planning, revolution and space … Questions concerning the relationship between the 'geo', the 'bio' and the 'political' have a long history in political geography ...

Theme 5: Oppositional Struggles Worldwide

Keywords: identity, gender, labor, urban, migrants’ struggles, organizing … In the wake of the global financial crisis, there is a pressing need to critically map the emerging terrain of oppositional struggles. Understandings of the crisis remain dominated by capital-centred approaches. This set of sessions provide an opportunity to develop a much more multi-faceted engagement with the politics of ...

Theme 4: Subjectivities - in crisis?

Keywords: sexuality, gender, age, race, class … The sessions focusing on “Subjectivities” are meant to address both theoretical and empirical perspectives, i.e. the ways (theoretical) concepts of “the subject” is destabilized and in crisis, in which present socioeconomic restructuring destabilizes subjectivities various forms of contested political subjectivities react to a) and b) in everyday ...

Theme 2: Urban Crisis

Keywords: housing, infrastructure, right to the city, gentrification, (racialized) urban conflict, urban crime … In the contemporary world, where urban development is a driving force of capital accumulation, conceptions of crisis are linked to understandings of urban conditions. Organizers of the ‘urban crisis’ theme therefore welcome proposals for especially panel sessions and also individual contributions ...

Theme 3: Ecological Crises

Keywords: global warming, “natural” disasters, hybridity, production of nature, “climate wars/refugees” … One of eleven session themes at the conference focuses on the causes and dimensions of, and reactions to, the ecological crisis. The socially produced ecological crisis has multiple impacts, especially for those who are excluded from the access to social, ecological and economic recourses. We ...

Theme 1: Financial, Economic and Fiscal crisis

Keywords: globalization, neoliberalism, political economy, financialization, credit ranking agencies, overaccumulation, bank bail out, state debt … Events taking place in just a few weeks between October and November 2008 gave us all a wake-up call. The benefits of precepts such as free markets, free trade, financial deregulation and the like, vanished in front of the eyes of thousands of astonished ...