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