2005 Critical Geography Mini-Conference Preliminary Schedule
Opening Session
Shideler 215
Friday, October 28, 2005
4:30pm-6:00pm
| Opening Remarks | Bill Renwick, Miami University |
| Keynote Address 1: From Marxist Geography to Critical Geography and Back Again | Kevin Cox, The Ohio State University |
| Keynote Address 2: Limits to care? | Lynn Staeheli, University of Colorado, Boulder |
6:30-7:30pm, Welcome Reception, 229 Shideler Hall
7:45pm, Dinner (on your own; some reservations are made for Uptown restaurants in Oxford)
8:30-9:00am, Saturday, Muffins and Bagels (2nd Floor Shideler Hall)
1 Saturday, 9:00-10:30am
Session A: Critical Geographies of Tourism
Shideler 229
| 9:00-9:15 | Upside down perception: misreading the risk on the Outer Banks’ landscapes of leisure | Connie Bruins, Miami University |
| 9:15-9:30 | Taking a Critical Cruise | Billy Terry, University of South Carolina |
| 9:30-9:45 | Tourist Development and Perceptions of Environmental Change in Cozumel, Mexico | Carl Nim, Miami University |
| 9:45-10:00 | Concrete Babylon: Life Between the Stars to Dwell and Consume in Hollywood, CA | Ed Jackiewicz, University of California Northridge, John Davenport, University of Kentucky, Giorgio Curti, San Diego State University |
| 10:00-10:10 | Discussant | Jay Gatrell |
Session B: Citizenship and Urban Politics
Shideler 215
| 9:00-9:15 | The Citizen in Space / Dancing in Place | Katrinka Somdahl-Sands, Macalester College |
| 9:15-9:30 | The Gaze is Alert Everywhere: The Production and Policing of Graffiti in Lexington, Kentucky | Oliver Christian Belcher, University of Kentucky |
| 9:30-9:45 | Pilsen: Community engagement and experiential learning | Winifred Curran, Euan Hague and Harpreet Gill, DePaul University |
| 9:45-10:00 | Active Silence: Race, Space and the Policing of Citizenship in Buffalo, NY | Jacqueline Housel, SUNY Buffalo |
| 10:00-10:10 | Discussant | Nik Heynen, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
2 Saturday, 11:00-12:30pm
Session A: Urban Identities: Subjects, Bodies, and the City
Shideler 229
| 11:00-11:15 | Culture, Discourse and Politics of Urban Change | Anindita Sengupta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 11:15-11:30 | Planning Nature and Consumption in Portland’s Central City | Chris Hagerman, University of Minnesota and Portland State University |
| 11:30-11:45 | Claiming Space: Discourse, Gender, and the Politics of Urban Identity | Galey Modan, Ohio State University |
| 11:45-12:00 | The Dialectics of Urban Environmental Metabolization and Social (Re)production: Race, Gender, Labor and the Production of Milwaukee's Urban Environment | Parama Roy, Nik Heynen and Harold Perkins, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| 12:00-12:10 | Discussant | David Wilson |
Session B: Spatialities of Governance
Shideler 215
| 11:00-11:15 | Geographies of Governance and Resistance | Nancy Ettlinger and Nick Crane, Ohio State University |
| 11:15-11:30 | The Plenary Power Doctrine and Urban Geopolitics after 9/11 | Mathew Coleman, Ohio State University |
| 11:45-12:00 | Altering Concpetions of Spiritual and Family Space: Missionary Practice and the Dawes Act | Christy Rogers, Ohio State University |
| 12:00-12:10 | Discussant | Bruce D’Arcus, Miami University |
3 Saturday, 1:30-3:00pm
Session A: Space, Place and Territory
Shideler 215
| 1:30-1:45 | Bending the Bars of Empire from Every Ghetto: The Black Panther Party's re-scaling of Local Welfare Provision through the Political Ecology of Urban Hunger | Nik Heynen, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| 1:45-2:00 | Nationalism and Ethnic Identity in Urban Space: Jewish Community Identity in a Neighborhood of Istanbul | Amy Mills, University of South Carolina |
| 2:00-2:15 | Drawing on Perception: Re-territorializing Space and Place from African-American Perceptions | Marie Cieri, Ohio State University |
| 2:15-2:30 | Spatial Practices and the (Re)Prodution of Neighborhood Social Space | Deanna Benson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| 2:30-2:40 | Discussant | Owen Dwyer, Indiana University at Indianapolis |
Session B: Questioning Community, Nation and the State
Shideler 229
| 1:30-1:45 | Constructing the Nation: Women’s Relief-Work in Gujarat, India | Anu Sabhlok, Pennsylvania State University |
| 1:45-2:00 | Grounding Postcolonial Theory and Development Practice: Urban Water Privatization in Ghana | Ian Yeboah, Miami University |
| 2:00-2:15 | The Gendered Politics of Community in the Sagara Community Forest, Tanzania | Betsy Beymer, University of Illinois |
| 2:15-2:30 | Revolutionary Neoliberalizations and the Illegitimate State: Milwaukee's Food System and the (Re)Production of Urban Hunger | Peter Hossler and Nik Heynen, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| 2:30-2:40 | Discussant | Nancy Ettlinger, Ohio State University |
4 Saturday, 3:30-5:00pm
Session A: Critical Economic Geographies
Shideler 215
| 3:30-3:45 | Getting What You Pay for: Scale, Competitive Liberalization, and the Quest for Hemispheric Free Trade | Jamey Essex, University of Windsor |
| 3:45-4:00 | The Spatiality and Strategic Use of Trade Policies Across Political Scales: The U.S. vs. the EU | Maureen McDorman, University of Kentucky |
| 4:00-4:15 | Between Affect and Ethics: Informal Caregivers and the Implications for Health Care Reform | Stephen Healy, Miami University |
| 4:15-4:30 | Western Aid to African Cities: Top-Down Donor-Driven Pottop-Up Localized Development | Garth Myers, University of Kansas |
| 4:30-4:40 | Discussant | Mathew Coleman, Ohio State University |
Session B: Challenging Critical Geographies
Shideler 229
| 3:30-3:45 | Ideology, Charisma and Critical Geography | David “Jim” Nemeth, University of Toledo |
| 3:45-4:00 | Towards the Revolution: Re-theorising the Ontology of Consumption under Capitalism | Jean-Paul Addie, Miami University |
| 4:00-4:15 | Reproducing Ambiguity? The Spatial Politics of Irony and Sarcasm | Lauren Martin, University of Kentucky |
| 4:15-4:30 | “That was then, this is now”: Materializing Progress in Appalachia | Tommy Wilson, University of Kentucky |
5:00-6:00pm Chese and Wine, 229 Shideler Hall
6:30pm Dinner (Uptown restaurants)
8:30-9:00am, Sunday Bagels & Muffins, 2nd Floor Shideler Hall
5 Sunday, 9:00-10:30am
Session A: Discourses of Environmental Change
Shideler 215
| 9:00-9:15 | Himalayan Environmental Crisis Narratives | John Metz, Northern Kentucky University |
| 9:15-9:30 | Exotic Invasive Nature: A Dynamic Contradiction within Capitalist Political Economy | Harold A. Perkins, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| 9:30-9:45 | Global Localism: Recentering the Conservation Agenda for Mt. Kasigau, Kenya | Kimberly Medley, Miami University |
| 9:45-10:00 | Discussant | Garth Myers, University of Kansas |
Session B: Constructions of Race and Public Space
Shideler 229
| 9:00-9:15 | Racialization, representation and the politics of public space in Duisburg-Marxloh, Germany | Patricia Ehrkamp, Miami University |
| 9:15-9:30 | Immigration and Spaces of Whiteness in Small Town America | Helga Leitner, University of Minnesota |
| 9:30-9:45 | Challenging the “Public” of Public Space: Encountering the State in Central Vista | Priyanka Jain, University of Kentucky |
| 9:45-10:00 | Facing Off: High School Riots, Ethnic/Racial Segregation and Girls’ Perceptions of Masculinity in Los Angeles, California | Mary E. Thomas, Ohio State University |
| 10:00-10:10 | Discussant | Lynn Staeheli, University of Colorado |