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**NOTE ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENSION: NOVEMBER 14, 2012**
*NB: We are seeking a few more contributions to fill two panel sessions at
the AAG.*
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Significances of Political Posters and Graffiti in the Making and
Propagating of Political Violence*
*Organizers: *Kevin M. DeJesus (Rhode Island College)
Eric J. Bordernkircher (UCLA)
This panel session seeks to draw together critical geographic analyses of
political posters and graffiti from across the globe in order to explore
their role in the making of those political discourses and representations
of ideologies, battle cries, recruitment efforts, and subaltern political
critique which undergird rationalities for war, and often in the case of
politically-charged graffiti, counter-narratives rejecting violent
political agendas and spatial orders. This commanding of everyday space
through these highly visual artifices, constitutes a vital terrain for the
critical exploration of often uniquely historically situated texts
(particularly in the case of political posters), which are under-explored
in critical geographic research on violently divided societies and the
production of political violence.
As Geographer John Pickles (1991) has earlier argued, such texts
and the spaces in which they transform, vitally situate the ways in which
these political commentaries and narrations hold empirical meaning.
Moreover, the particular symbolic systems and referents employed in the
making of political posters, propaganda maps, and even graffiti often
employ their own textual geographies in the engendering of political
meaning and subjectivity encoded in these discursive productions - a site
of analysis which deepens how political texts link meaningful spaces,
places, events, historical content and myth in the staking of political
claims. Submissions are sought which explore the following, and/or other
novel critical geographic innovations in the study of these texts, with the
aim to produce an edited volume following the AAG 2012 Annual Meeting:
*Critical Geographic research and textual methods/theories in the reading
of the political landscape via political posters, graffiti and propaganda
maps;
*Geographies of political posters: making meaning through the spaces of the
text by way of culture-bound, locally embedded referents and geographical
features;
*Engendering gender in the rationales for violent contestation: nation,
religion, women, men and political meaning;
*Global geopolitics and the case for war: imperial visions, nations,
regions, siege and the statecraft of selling full-scale war;
* What we mean when you walk by: The staking of everyday space and the
citizen anonomys in the making of political life, public space, historical
memory, memorial and resistance to erasure;
*Protests, places and text: Mapping the discourse of protest/collective
action events through its textual moments in placard, prose and
politically-purposeful defacements qua proclamation and inscription;
Please send your abstracts to Kevin M. DeJesus, kevinm.dejesus@gmail.com and
Eric J. Bordenkircher, ejborden@gmail by *November 14, 2012*. Abstracts
must be 250 words or less, and accord with AAG abstract guidelines,
available here:
http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/call_for_papers/abstract_guidelines
interested in participating in an edited volume of these submissions.
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Kevin M. DeJesus, PhD
http://independent.academia.edu/KevinMDeJesus
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Rhode Island College/Multi-University Research Initiative
Craig Lee Hall, 143
600 Mount Pleasant Avenue
Providence, RI 02908
401-456-8696
Co-Editor, H-Mideast Politics
http://www.h-net.org/~midepol/
Book Review Editor, H-Africa
http://www.h-net.org/~africa/
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