CFP: Bordering inland waterscapes: materialities, mobilities and politics (RGS-IBG 2021)
Dear colleagues,
We are still accepting abstracts for our planned session on inland waterscapes as borders at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference in London 31.08-3.09, submission deadline 1 March, please the cfp below. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Best wishes,
Maarja
Call for abstracts: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 31 August =E2= =80=93 3 September 2021 London, UK
Bordering inland waterscapes: materialities, mobilities and politics
Session convenors: Maarja Kaaristo (Manchester Metropolitan University), Mathew A. Varghese (Mahatma Gandhi University) and Francesco Visentin (University of Udine)
Format: Papers session, in-person if possible. A decision on this will be made and communicated in April 2021.
This panel will discuss the inland waters (tidal and non-tidal rivers, canals, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries, wetlands, etc.) as borders: sites of liminality, fluidity, hybridity, and mobility. Water bodies are often central to border-making practices: they can form networks as transport corridors or be sites of political demarcation as national borders, realised in varied assemblages of humans, non-humans and materialities. They often also emerge as sites of formal and informal cooperation and transboundary work between different stakeholders and individuals. Water bodies can both divide and unite =E2=80=93 often simultaneously =E2=80=93 t= owns, cities, countries, states, as well as communities, groups and individuals. They also function as boundaries between rural and urban, natural and constructed, water and land. This panel will focus on inland waterscapes as borderlands where the varied material and non-material boundaries are managed, governed, practiced, performed, lived, and narrated. We will study the watery borders as liquid and relational occurrences and consider the various ways human and non-human agencies meet, converge and sometimes clash and what kind of bordering and boundary-making practices emerge as a result of these encounters.
We welcome papers including (but not limited to):
=C2=B7 inland water bodies as geopolitical borders;
=C2=B7 cross-border management and hydro-governance of (potable) wate= r;
=C2=B7 borders of climate crisis and sustainability;
=C2=B7 everyday practices of bordering;
=C2=B7 materialities of watery borders (water, sediment, infrastructu= re, mundane artefacts);
=C2=B7 imaginations, narrations, representations and histories of wat= ery borders;
=C2=B7 water borders as sensory, tangible, intangible or virtual plac= es and spaces;
=C2=B7 mobilities and immobilities (migration, transnationalism, tour= ism, commuting);
=C2=B7 governmentalities and governmobilities
Please send an abstract of max. 250 words, with author names and affiliations and paper title to m.kaaristo@mmu.ac.uk by 1 March. Please don't hesitate to email if you have any questions.
More information about the conference can be found here: https://www.rgs .org/research/annual-international-conference/
Maarja Kaaristo, PhD, MA, BA | Research Associate (Tourism Mobilities) | Manchester Metropolitan University | Department of Marketing, Retail and Tourism | Faculty of Business and Law | C2.16 Cavendish Building | Cavendish Street | Manchester M15 6BG | United Kingdom | E-mail: M.Kaaristo@mmu.ac.uk | Tel: +44(0)1612472650
Associate Editor of International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research
Latest publications:
Kaaristo, M. (2020) Waterway: a liquid place. In: Edensor, T., Kalandides A. and & Kothari, U. (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Place . London: Routledge, pp. 168-178
Kaaristo, M., Medway, D., Burton, J., Rhoden, S. & Bruce, H.L. (2020) Governing mobilities on the UK canal network, Mobilities , 15(6), pp. 844-861
Kaaristo, M. (2020). =E2=80=98Rhythm and Pace: The Diurnal Aspects of Leisu= re Mobilities on the UK Canals and Rivers.=E2=80=99 In: Amit, V. and Salazar, = N. B. (Eds.) Pacing Mobilities . Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements. New York, Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 59-78.
Rhoden, S. & Kaaristo, M. (2020). Liquidness: Conceptualising water within boating tourism. Annals of Tourism Research , 81, 102854.
Rhoden, S. & Kaaristo, M. (2020). Mobile landscapes and transport tourism : the visual experience of mobility during cruises and coach tours", International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, 14(3), pp. 307-319.
