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
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