Utopia
GEOGRAPHIES OF JUSTICE
Announcing:
Antipode’s 3rd Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ)*
*(We have jettisoned “Summer” given the Northern hemispheric bias it presents)
Antipode’s 3rd Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ) will take place in Athens, Georgia, USA, May 30th-June 3rd, 2011.
Antipode’s 3rd Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ) will provide an exciting opportunity to engage leading edge theoretical, methodological, and research-practice issues in the field of radical geography and social justice (both broadly defined), along with a range of associated professional and career development matters. This international meeting will be specifically designed to meet the needs of new researchers, taking the form of an intensive, interactive workshop for 25 participants. It will include facilitated discussion groups, debates and panels, training and skills development modules, and plenary sessions. Topics for the meeting will include: defining radical/critical geographies, models of engagement broadly/models of activist-scholarship specifically, interdisciplinary radical work, producing public geographies, locating the boundaries of “the geographies of justice,” the institutional cultures of radical geography, interdisciplinary dialogue and radical geography, how to teach radical geographies, publishing radical geographies and mapping the future of radical/critical geographies.
Featured plenary contributors at the Athens (2011) meeting will be:
Patrick Bond, School of Development Studies and Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. See: http://sds.ukzn.ac.za/default.php?2,4,35,4,0
Vinay Gidwani, Department of Geography and Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota. See: http://www.geog.umn.edu/people/profile.php?UID=gidwa002
Wendy Larner, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol. See: http://www.bris.ac.uk/geography/staff/?PersonKey=zOFDxaAjuHkDytSFcaRhO0gQl3YyFx
Laura Pulido, Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California. See: http://college.usc.edu/ase/people/faculty_display.cfm?Person_ID=1003620
Nik Theodore, Center for Urban Economic Development and Department of Urban Planning and Policy,
University of Illinois at Chicago. See: http://www.urbaneconomy.org/niktheodore
Wendy Wolford, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University. See: http://devsoc.cals.cornell.edu/cals/devsoc/people/faculty.cfm?netId=www43
The local organizer of the meeting is:
Nik Heynen, Department of Geography, University of Georgia. See: http://www.ggy.uga.edu/directory/details.php?i=220&group
Who is Eligible and How to Apply?
The Institute for the Geographies of Justice is open to doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, and recently appointed junior faculty (normally within 3 years of appointment).
The Institute participation fee will be $200 for graduate students and $250 for faculty and postdoctoral researchers. This fee will include your lodging for the week, a couple meals here and there and fund a reception at the end of the week.
All those wishing to attend the IGJ must complete a pre-registration form by January 31st, 2011.
Pre-registration forms are available at the two following links: http://www.antipode-online.net/docs/IGJ_2011_pre-ap.doc and http://geog.ggy.uga.edu/faculty/index.php?n=Main.Nheynen
Please fill out the form and email it to Nik Heynen at antipode.igj@gmail.com
Support for the SIGJ is being provided by:
• Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography: http://www.antipode-online.net/default.asp
• The Department of Geography at the University of Georgia: http://www.ggy.uga.edu/
Further information about the Institute for the Geographies of Justice can be obtained from Nik Heynen at antipode.igj@gmail.com or nheynen@uga.edu
Information on Athens can be found at http://www.visitathensga.com/
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Nik Heynen
Associate Professor of Geography,
Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology,
Associate Director of the Center for Integrative Conservation Research
(CICR)
University of Georgia,
GG Building, 210 Field St., Room 204,
Athens, GA 30602
Phone: (706) 542-1954 (direct)
(706) 542-2856 (office)
Fax: (706) 542-2388
E-mail: nheynen@uga.edu
www: http://www.ggy.uga.edu/directory/details.php?i=220&group
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