are you going? i am considering!
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Norma Rantisi wrote:
> Apologies for cross-posting.
>
> More information about the Third Global Conference on Economic Geography
> 2011, COEX,
> Seoul, Korea, June 28-July 2, 2011, can be found at the following
> website:
> http://www.space-economy.org/conference.
>
> Information about travel awards for post-graduates and early career
> academics is also
> available on the site.
>
> ==
>
> 2nd Call for Papers: "*The (Re)Production of Difference in Cultural
> Industries*"
>
> As sites/mediums of symbolic representation, cultural industries (film,
> fashion, literature, etc.) involve processes where social difference may be
> constituted and serve as an integral part of the accumulation process. To
> date, most contemporary economic-geographic analyses have focused on the
> spatial and economic organization of such industries; in contrast to
> cultural studies or political economy analyses, few studies have considered
> how these industries operate through social inequalities (gender, race,
> class) in terms of either
>
> 1) the symbolic-ideological representations that cultural products embody;
> 2) the material effects tied up with a social division of labour; OR
> 3) the inter-relation between symbolic representations and
> material conditions.
>
> Papers in this session will explore these themes, examining how
> the manufacture of cultural products can be implicated in the production of
> difference & how difference in turn can become a basis for economic
> exploitation in these industries.
>
> If interested in participating, please forward an abstract to Norma Rantisi
> (norma.rant...@gmail.com) by January 25th.
>
> Thank you & best wishes,
>
> Norma
>
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> Norma Rantisi, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> Department of Geography, Planning & Environment
> Concordia University
> 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
> Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8
> Tel.: 514-848-2424, ext. 2018
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> E-mail: norma.rant...@gmail.com
>
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>
>
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Geography and Planning
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