CfP RGS-IBG 2020 Worlds of wisdom: ontologies of geography, philosophy and geosophy
Convenor: Dr Emily Hayes, Humanities and Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University
Discussant: Prof Roger Crisp, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford
Recent critical scholarship has laboured to shift Geography’s theories and praxes (Ferretti 2019). In spite of these efforts the
discipline continues to be associated with the oft-told associations of
topographical exploration and imperialism and its crimes (Yusoff 2019;
Dorling 2019).
Keeping
apace with the conceptual, multi-scalar methodological concerns of the
ontological turn (Evens 2008; Harman 2010; Holbraad and Pedersen 2017),
and surveying Geography’s inductive and transforming role, notably of
the sciences and humanities, this session will explore how geographical
knowledge, materials and cognitive, physical and visual practises
constitute an untapped reservoir of something which might generally be
conceptualized as wisdom.
The session welcomes papers which theorise that the multiplicity of the
discipline’s histories constitute resources for exploring, learning and
teaching historical and contemporary routes towards virtuous living. In
seeking to foster interdisciplinary exchange and to deepen understandings of
the geographies of philosophy and the philosophical value of geography,
this session aims to encourage dialogue between practitioners in these
respective fields by considering:
- the locations of Geographical and Philosophical knowledge within entangled schemes of faith, knowledge and science
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the common and distinct cognitive concepts, visual aesthetic tropes
and linguistic terms developed by practitioners of the aforementioned
disciplines
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the shifting concepts of space and geographical perceptions used by
philosophers and the philosophical knowledge and practises harnessed by
geographical practitioners
- future directions that a joint venture between Geography and Philosophy might take
Session format: 1 (or 2) session(s) of 3 papers of 20 minutes, questions and discussion. Deadline for proposed papers: 12 February 2020.
Please email your abstract of c. 250 words to Dr Emily Hayes by that date. Notification of acceptance will be emailed to presenters
by 29 February 2020. Accepted speakers will be advised to register for
RGS-IBG by the early-bird deadline of Friday 12 June 2020.
REFERENCES
Federico
Ferretti, ‘History and philosophy of geography I: Decolonising the
discipline, diversifying archives and historicising radicalism’, Progress in Human Geography (2019) 1–11. DOI: 10.1177/0309132519893442.
Danny Dorling, ‘Kindness: A new kind of rigour for British Geographers’, Emotion, Space and Society 33 (2019) 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/
Kathryn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None, Minneapolis, Minnesota University Press, 2019.
Martin Holbraad and Morten Axel Pedersen, The Ontological Turn: An Anthropological Exposition, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Terence M.S. Evens, Anthropology as Ethics: Nondualism and the Conduct of Sacrifice, Oxford & New York, Berghahn Books, 2008.
Graham Harman, Towards Speculative Realism: Essays and Lectures, Hants. U.K., Zero Books, 2010.