>>CALL FOR PAPERS > >>POST-MARXIST HUMAN GEOGRAPHIES > >>AAG ANNUAL CONFERENCE: NEW YORK, 2001 (27th FEB – MARCH 3rd) > >>Convenors: > > 1. Dr Richard Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > 2. Dr Marcus Doel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >Despite the enormous influence of Marxism on human geography there have been >few attempts to specify and assess the innumerable departures from Marxism >in recent decades. We aim to bring together human geographers interested in >post-Marxist theory and practice: some of whom may envisage their work as >breaking with Marxism, while others may see their work as a continuation >and/or radicalization of Marxism. The sessions will explore the potential of >post-Marxian human geographies in terms of theory, politics, and practice, >and consider the extent to which contemporary human geography expresses a >‘Marxian political unconscious.’ > >Possible themes for papers include: > >The limits, crises, and aporias of Marxism >The heterogeneity and incommensurability of Marxisms >Beyond class reductionism and economic determinism >Feminist and post-colonial interventions >Doing justice to the politics of difference and anti-essentialist Marxisms >Rethinking modes of production and reproduction >Political economy after the cultural turn >Radical democracy >Post-isms > >In addition to these themes, papers may wish to address reactions to Marxism >in the work of authors such as: Adorno, Arendt, Aronowitz, Balibar, Bardhan, >Baudrillard, Bauman, Benjamin, Callinicos, Coward, Deleuze, Derrida, Elster, >Forgacs, Foucault, Geras, Guattari, Habermas, Hall, Hartmann, Hindess, >Hirst, Irigaray, Laclau, Lyotard, Mouffe, Pzeworski, Ramazanoglu, Roemer, >Touraine, Walby, and Walker. Clearly, the multiplicity of reactions has not >produced an homogeneous post-Marxism. However, as human geographers we can >begin to work through this unstable constellation of departures from Marxism >in the hope of new kinds of geography. > >Prospective titles and abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent to >either of the convenors by 1st June 2000. > >__________________________ >1. Dr Richard Smith, Department of Geography, University of Leicester, >University Road, Leicester, England, LE1 7RH >2. Dr Marcus Doel, Department of Geography, Loughborough University, >Leicestershire, England, LE11 3TU > >Dr Richard Smith PhD (Bristol), >Lecturer in Human Geography, >Department of Geography, University of Leicester, University Road, >Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK >Tel: +44 (0)116 252 3845 >Fax: +44 (0) 116 252 3854 >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >(Note: away in New York until May 10th)