ICGS 2024: Call for Abstracts Reminder, Part 3

Gently but gleefully end your association with a situation or place that feels oppressive.

That’s your horoscope for this week. As with most horoscopes, they can be applied to any situation and can be creatively practiced in ways that satisfy intensely personal goals. Rob Brezsny writes some of the best of this “burst of inspiration” that illuminates individual adventures. Witty, funny and perspicacious – what’s not to like?

 

So in the language of horoscope, let us issue our last call for abstracts for the upcoming ICGS 2024: In the coming days leading to 20 October, we invite you to map your psyche’s resourceful depths because you might discover the inspiration to bargain, mediate, and negotiate with élan. You will have a heightened ability to achieve your task. The cosmos may not have a quantifiable end but in terms of abstract submission to ICGS, there is an end to things as we know it: a non-negotiable deadline. 

 

Send your 250-word abstract this Sunday, 20 October to https://bit.ly/ICGS2024Abstracts. There is no extension beyond the deadline. Heed what the song extols to all bohemians: “no day but today”.

To read our original call for abstracts, check out this link.

Results of abstract acceptance will be sent to your email by 28 October.

ICGS 2024: Call for Abstracts Reminder, Part 1

Show me how to do like you

Show me how to do it.

Stevie Wonder, ‘Do Like You’ (1980)

A recondite collective once set out to abolish outer space by drafting a manifesto. They said ordinary humans have been lied to ceaselessly and without mercy. Calling themselves the Committee to Abolish Outer Space (CAOS), their manifesto lists down guidelines based on an organizing principle/program. In a language, simultaneously serious and playful, they point out that our social and biological lives are eroded by capitalism, and outer space is like capital, what Marx called as “dripping from head to toe, from every pore, with blood and dirt.” Much like the process of primitive accumulation that created “technologies of power acquired through colonial conquest”, outer space represents the world’s ills and the vicious practices of humans and institutions of power.

Practice orbits our social lives. From ideas emanating from novels, online shows, ideologies, and ecologies, to engaging in theories and site ontologies, they influence the type of practice we engage in. The late Fredric Jameson (1934-2024) once argued that one of the practices of postmodernism resulted in pastiche. From practice to pastiche – the river is indeed wide. Practice, then, can come from various situations, provocations and predicaments, turns and shifts. In academia, practice gained re-appraisals in the dawning light of the representational turn. Everts, Lahr-Kurten and Watson contend that human geography has been enriched in its acknowledgment of the vitality of practice as a companion to theory. It invites the blossoming of new knowledge inquiries. In Dominique Amorsolo’s study of the Lower Abra River using historical GIS, ‘new folklife geonarratives’ showed that human practices assist in the river’s ‘natural’ trajectory. So that’s where we are now, and this is when you come in. 

Just like our earlier ICGS call for abstracts, practice can be one (or several) from a pluriverse of theory and praxis. So, send us your abstract that attends to the storying of particular and specific geographical practices. They can include but certainly not limited to creative pedagogies, post-human landscapes, surveillance and sousveillance, food and agroecology, resistance and refusals, playful mapping and ludic geographies, religious lifeworlds, remote and emote sensing, historical cartographies, queering spaces, re-wilding practices, carescapes and ‘care’-ful geographies, and various other doings and mappings. And oh yes, even transgressive performativities that Stevie Wonder wrote and sang about in his song ‘Do Like You’. 

Send us your abstract by 20 October 2024 through this link: https://bit.ly/ICGS2024Abstracts.  

To see our original call for abstracts, click this link to read specific details of the call or simply paste this link to your URL https://updgeography.blogspot.com/2024/09/icgs-2024-situated-in-practice.html

 

References:

Amorsolo, DS (2022). Folklife as Geonarrative: The Fluvial Lifeworld Confluences of the Lower Abra River-Delta and the Town of Santa, The Pennsylvania Geographer, 60(1), 28-53.

Everts, J, Lahr-Kurten, M and M Watson (2011). Practice matters!, Erdkunde, 65(4), 323-334.

Jameson, F (1993/1997). Postmodernism and consumer society. In Studying Culture: An Introductory Reader, edited by Ann Gray, and Jim McGuigan, 206–217. New York: Oxford University Press.

Kriss, S (2015). Manifesto of the Committee to Abolish Outer Space. Pamphlet. Print.

Marx, K (1867/1976). Chapter 39: Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist, Capital, Volume One, London: Penguin Books.

 

ICGS 2023: Practices - A Love Story (Or Send Us Your Abstracts for ICGS 2023)

Can a practice be performed? How does one embody and perform work, mappings, or artistic encounters?

Rather than us telling you, why not tell us how you’d go about this narrative like when you tell a story, sing a song, recite a pledge of allegiance, perform a dance, recall a dream, or when enacting a daily routine.

For Filipino mapping practices in the archipelago, describing the world is  performative, enacted and creative. There are various ways to describe and portray what is static and mobile in our worlds. Like indigenous mapping, the storytelling of worlds can be danced, sung, and performed in an endlessly looping wheel of multiplicities that bring together bodies and landscapes, emotions and places, and self, collectivities and territories.

So whether your story infuses Judith Butler’s performativities or Isabelle Stengers’ ecology of practice, or Taylor Swift’s brand of folklore, or none of the above, send them to us. The deadline is 6th of November. Submit your abstract through this link:  https://bit.ly/ICGS2023Abstracts

The original call can be found here. And also here. 

We’re waiting for your stories. 

ICGS 2022: Grief and Mourning and Abstract Submission

"The first thing I feel when I see the lagoons is sadness." 

That came from an indigenous Mixteca fisherwoman living in the Pacific Coast of Oaxaca, grieving over the loss of her community's lagoons due largely to neoliberal policies. Geographies of grieving are "spaces of complex collective loss due to multiple interconnected forms of violence" (Aguilera, 2022). 

The demise of nature have been well-documented by geographers who narrated various environmental losses from the Anthropocene. Grief and mourning have also been mobilised as an analytic to bear witness to painful emotions (Head, 2016) and as space to narrate stories of "the dead and dying in relation to the living" (van Dooren, 2014).

In the upcoming International Conference on Geographical Studies 2022 (ICGS) from 10-11 November 2022 with a theme Emotional Geographies: Passion in the Geographical, the Philippine Geographical Society welcomes abstracts that acknowledge the alternative spaces occupied by grief and mourning. It can be about the empty space phenomenon, anticipatory grief, how more-than-humans mourn, private memorials in public spaces, and storying losses from a broken heart.

We also welcome other topics that address and intersect a broader understanding how emotion, compassion, friendship, care and the various affective dimensions of space manifest in multiple contexts. See our original call for papers here.

Send your 250-word abstracts by 15 October 2022 to this link, or simply click this: https://tinyurl.com/ICGS2022Abstracts. 

We also welcome organised panel sessions, cartographical exhibits, film screenings, and book discussions. Our conference is a space for analysis, catharsis, exchanges, finding meanings, breathing hope to various broken hearts. As writer Stephen Crane once wrote:

... I like it

Because it is bitter,

And because it is my heart.