From jhuns at vt.edu  Mon Sep 19 14:46:36 2005
From: jhuns at vt.edu (Jeremy Hunsinger)
Date: Mon Sep 19 14:46:28 2005
Subject: [Cddc] Fwd: Technonatures IV Chicago 2006
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> From: whitedf@jmu.edu
> Date: September 19, 2005 1:53:35 PM EDT
> To: cddc@vt.edu
> Subject: Technonatures IV Chicago 2006
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> Would it be possible to circulate the following conference
> call for papers (see below) to CDDC folk at Virginia Tech?
> We think our 'Technonatures' event may be of interest to
> your faculty/post grads and we would be keen to draw fellow
> Virginian STS folk into our discussions!
>
> All the best,
>
> Damian White
>
> Assistant Professor of Sociology,
> Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
> James Madison University,
> Sheldon Hall, Harrisonburg, Virginia
> VA 22801; USA
> Phone: 540 568 6423
> Fax:540.568 6112
> www.jmu.edu/sociology
>
> TECHNONATURES IV
>
> 2006 Meeting of The American Association of Geographers,
> March 7-11 2006, Chicago, IL
> http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/index.cfm
>
> Call for Papers:
>
> In an era marked by accelerating environmental change,
> deepening battles over eco-technological and
> bio/nano/medico technological transformations, the nature
> of ?Nature? and the politics of the environment appears
> increasingly to be up for grabs.
>
> Ongoing debates concerning productions of nature, contested
> natures, or socio-natures continue to draw attention to the
> irreducibly cultural and political qualities of contemporary
> socio-environmental relations and processes.
>
> Elsewhere, Haraway?s cyborgs and 'companion species', or
> Latour?s emphasis on 'quasi subjects/objects' and 'actants'
> continue to stress that hybridity and the complex spaces of
> the inbetween is the place of (a)modern politics.
>
> In these proposed sessions we would like to reflect on the
> extent to which technonatural, hybrid and cyborg
> discursive practices continue to be constructive and
> productive means to disrupt and rework environmental
> politics and debate.
>
> We would like to draw colleagues together whose work is
> attempting to develop critical geographies and sociologies
> of changing environment-technology-society relations.
>
> Topics of interest might include (but are not limited to):
> ?    Technonatural landscapes and environmental histories;
> ?    Urban/suburban technonatures;
> ?    Technonatural Discourses and the Politics of ?Race?,
> Ethnicity, Sexuality, Gender
> ?    Techonatural human / nonhuman bodies;
> ?     The politics and pathologies of technonatural
> time/spaces;
> ?     Limits and limitations of technonatural and cyborg
> discourses.
>
> Expressions of interest and abstracts By: 3 October
> should be sent to:
>
> Erik Swyngedouw, Geography and the Environment, Oxford
> University Erik.swyngedouw@geog.ox.ac.uk or
>
> Damian White, Dept of Sociology and Anthropology, James
> Madison University whitedf@jmu.edu
>
> Damian White
> ***************************************Dr Damian White
> Assistant Professor of Sociology,
> Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
> James Madison University,
> Sheldon Hall, Harrisonburg, Virginia
> VA 22801; USA
> Phone: 540 568 6423
> Fax:540.568 6112
> www.jmu.edu/sociology
>

Jeremy Hunsinger
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