FYI - Note 4/23 deadline for paper proposals.
"Socio-spatial forms of segregation and/or stigmatization and the kinds
of mechanisms that enable their existence or help perpetuate them" are
basic causal mechanisms linking where people live (as outlined in
"Neighborhoods & ) and health inequities. But the concepts of
socially defined "space", of inclusion and exclusion, borders and
boundaries, extend beyond physical geographies into social
environments, and even into global geopolitical processes which have
massive and long lasting consequences for human population health.
-- Alice Furumoto-Dawson, PhD/MPH
Call for
Paper Proposals
Spaces of Exception:
Social Marginality, Racialized Inequalities and Invisibility in the
21st
Century
May 28, 2010
The University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics and
Culture
invites paper proposals for a day long conference to be held on the
campus on
May 28, 2010. This conference on “Spaces of Exception: Social
Marginality, Racialized Inequalities and Invisibility in the 21st
Century,”
seeks to explore the physical, social and ideological processes that go
into
creating spaces of exception, that is spaces that are characterized by
the
suspension of laws, norms and rights understood to apply to all. This
conference is interested in socio-spatial forms of segregation and/or
stigmatization and the kinds of mechanisms that enable their existence
or help
perpetuate them. While the notion of “the exception” appears in the
work of
Giorgio Agamben (1998) in relation to the space of the camp (such as
the
concentration camp or refugee camp), this conference is interested in
“spaces
of exception” broadly speaking, and welcomes papers that explore, in
one way or
another, processes of spatialization that depend on ideologies of
difference,
exclusivity or extra-legality.
Paper proposals should not be more that
two single-spaced pages and
must be
accompanied by a short two-page résumé. A copy of these materials
should be
sent electronically by April 23, 2010 to each of the following:
Ramón A.
Gutiérrez ([log in to unmask])
and Nell Gabiam ([log in to unmask]).
For additional information about the
conference, please contact Prof.
Ramón A.
Gutiérrez, Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and
Culture,
University of Chicago at 773-702-8063 or [log in to unmask].
Download this call for paper proposals
at http://csrpc.uchicago.edu
Conference paper proposals are
welcome on the following themes:
Urban marginality: What are the
mechanisms of segregation,
racial and
ethnic stigmatization and social inequality that shape the landscape of
the
city in the current globalized world? How do various understandings of
“the city” reinforce or dismantle the aforementioned barriers?
Spaces of containment: What are
the mechanisms that go into
justifying
spaces of containment? What is the relationship between notions of
“security,”
“sovereignty” and “protection” and spaces of containment such as the
refugee
camp, the prison, the army camp/base, or the gated community?
Spaces of invisibility: Through
what mechanisms do certain
people,
groups become invisible? For example, how do notions of sovereignty,
rights,
legality/extra legality/illegality, determine who is recognizable as a
social
and political actor and who is not?
Professor Veena Das of Johns Hopkins
University and Professor Teresa
Caldeira
of the University of California, Berkeley will serve as the conference
keynote
speakers. Papers presented at the conference will be considered for
publication as a special issue of an academic journal. All expenses –
transport, housing, meals – will be provided for persons chosen to
present.