Security and Surveillance session at AAG 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS

Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 24-28 February 2012, New York

Geographies of Security and Surveillance

Convened by David Murakami Wood, Queen’s University, Ontario, and Steve Graham, Newcastle University UK.

This session will provide a space for the discussion of the growing interest in geographies of security and surveillance. We welcome submissions on any aspect of this broad area, but would particularly encourage papers on:

• International comparative studies of security and surveillance
• The political economy of security and surveillance
• Surveillance, intelligence and the ‘war on terror’
• The globalization, reterritorialization and rescaling of security and surveillance
• Critiques of dominant theorizations of security and surveillance, and new directions from / in geography
• Emerging geographies of surveillance and security, e.g. social networks, online gameworlds etc.
• Historical geographies of security and surveillance
• Security, surveillance and culture
• Geographies of openness, transparency and exteriority
• Geographies of closure, privacy and interiority

Potential presenters should first register for the meeting at: http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/register_to_attend

They should then send their name, affiliation, conference ID number, and a 250-word abstract to David Murakami Wood

The deadline for submission is: 21st September 2011

Successful submitters will be notified before 28th September 2011, when the full session will be submitted to the AAG

Author: David

I'm David Murakami Wood. I live on Wolfe Island, in Ontario, and am Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Surveillance Studies and an Associate Professor at Queen's University, Kingston. View all posts by David