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 -- 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 Fax: 514-848-2032 E-mail: norma.rant...@gmail.com ==================================================
