CALL FOR PAPERS: Space-Time: Affect, Struggle…Everyday
Annual Conference of the AAG, Boston, Massachusetts
April 15-19, 2008

Organizer: The Spatial Scholars Group of the CUNY Graduate Center

The Spatial Scholars Group, an interdisciplinary collective at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is organizing this paper session. Our fields of study include Environmental Psychology, Critical Geography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Urban Studies. This collective grew out of discussions about how space and time are constructed in both theory and practice.

Compelled to theorize outside the rigid limitations of a singular Newtonian, Cartesian, or Kantian space-time, this session approaches both space and time as constructed, produced, manipulated, or otherwise non-fixed and contingent. The session’s aim is to explore space-time conceptualizations and the material social practices that produce them. Of particular interest are how these space-time conceptualizations undergird social processes and lead to political as well as practical consequences where instantiated.

We are seeking submissions for a boundary-crossing paper session that will contribute to the spirit of our project by exploring broad intersections within the following themes or similar themes:

• Institutional space-time
• Revolutionary space-time
• Public space-time
• Space-time and the commons
• Gendered space-time
• Urban space-time
• Contested space-time

Space-time provides a framework for digging into and rethinking the possibilities of each of these contemporary constructions, and others we’ve yet to imagine. All papers will be considered.

NOTE: Cindi Katz, Professor of Geography and Environmental Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center will chair this paper session.

E-mail inquires and abstracts of no more than 250 words to csosnowy@gmail.com by Nov. 19.