Human encounters with physical, emotional and imaginative spaces entail that individuals and collectives perform themselves in negotiation not only with people, landscapes and territories but also with power, ideology, and discourse. Perform. If performance is to ‘act out’ in the articulation of, among many others, spaces and places, performativity is a set of ‘citational practices that reproduce and subvert discourse’. Geographers Nicky Gregson and Gillian Rose argue that both performance and performativity are ‘important conceptual tools for a critical geography concerned to denaturalise taken-for-granted social practices, and concur with their emphasis on the creativity of everyday life.’ But we are still confronted with the question: whose stories get told, to whom, and how?
For the 2023 iteration of the International Conference on Geographical Studies (ICGS), the focus on the performative aspect in and of geography necessitates the creation of productive (and performed) spaces to hear stories of geography-informed practices in research, pedagogy, community-based work and various advocacies. This year’s Performative Geographies theme spotlights multiple performative acts and practices. Whether this is about care-ful and caring geographies of older persons and differently-abled individuals, or cartographic interventions in a marginalised community, we would like to hear stories how these spaces are produced, destroyed, re-created and subjected to multiple transformations.
Stories can also be about the performative ‘doing’ of identities, storying violence in agroecological landscapes and bungkalan, re-spatialising performative activism for climate justice, participating in creative strategies of communities in relation to disaster preparedness, displacement of the heteronormative alignment of sex and gender (following Judith Butler), or documenting the affective practice of digitising and bringing to life the old and forgotten maps.
Send us your narratives that describe, question, analyse, and un-think performances and performativities in research, practice, and in everyday life advocacies, in the form of a 250-word abstract on or before 6 November 2023.
Topics include but are not limited to:
Affect and emotion
Performing labor and work
Geographies of care
Construction of non-heteronormative spaces
Emotional geographies of mapping and mapmaking
Participatory and community mapping
Artistic and creative performativities
Landscape of violence
Post-human and more-than-human entanglements
Disaster and disaster preparedness
Geohumanities and ecocriticism
Literary geographies
Geographies of media
GIS and geovisualizations
Climate studies and climate justice
Islands, blue humanities and tidalectics
Right to the city and the urban
Peforming aging and aging gracefully
Geopolitics and territorial disputes
Emotive cartographies
Historical geographies and heritage studies
Geonarratives, storying and storiation
Environmental sustainability
Playful and ludic geographies
To participate in ICGS 2023, here are following guidelines:
For paper presentation, please submit the following:
- 250-word abstract
- 3-5 keywords
- Presenters and co-presenters’ names, affiliations, email addresses, bionotes
For panel sessions that feature, address, and engage with social, critical and theoretical issues relevant to geography, submit panel session proposals with the following information:
- 300-word abstract
- 4-5 keywords
- Names of at least 3 panelists, with email addresses, affiliations, and bionotes
Submit individual abstracts and panel session proposals on or before 6 November 2023. Notification of abstract acceptance is on 10 November 2023.
ICGS 2023 runs from 24-25 November 2023 and will be held remotely. All presentations are to be recorded. These 15-minute video recordings of presentation are due on 15 November 2023. Those that exceed 15 minutes will be returned to paper presenters and will only be accepted when the 15-minute videos are re-submitted.
All submissions should be sent via this link or you can just paste the following link in your browser: https://bit.ly/ICGS2023Abstracts
For inquiries, contact the ICGS 2023 Secretariat at icgs.ph@gmail.com. For updates, please visit our social media accounts:
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