MICHEL FOUCAULT, info.

   Hi all,

I thought the cfp below might be of interest to some spatially-oriented Foucauldians out there.

Cheers,

Reuben Rose-Redwood
University of Victoria


Call for Papers: Special Section on the History of Urban House Numbering for the journal, Urban History

Street
 addressing is one of the most basic strategies employed by governmental
 authorities to tax, police, manage, and monitor the spatial whereabouts
 of individuals within a population. Despite the central importance of 
the street address as a political technology that sometimes met with 
resistance, few scholars have examined the historical practice of street
 addressing with respect to its broader social and political 
implications. We would like to invite those scholars with an interest in
 this subject to contribute to a peer-reviewed special section of the 
journal, Urban History, that we
 are organizing on the histories and
 geographies of urban house numbering. Articles should be no more than 
8,000 words in length, with a preliminary submission deadline of December 15, 2010.

Each paper submission will go through the journal's regular peer review process;
 however, it will first be submitted to the special section organizers 
(Reuben Rose-Redwood and Anton Tantner) for an initial screening prior 
to peer review. We are particularly interested in showcasing recent work
 that links the history of urban house numbering to broader debates 
concerning the interrelations of space, knowledge, and power that have 
animated contemporary discussions in the social sciences and humanities.
 If you are interested in contributing to this special section, please 
contact the special section organizers at your earliest convenience and 
provide a very brief description of the proposed paper topic to be 
submitted. We look forward to hearing from
 you.

Sincerely,

Reuben Rose-Redwood, University of Victoria (redwood@xxxxxxx)

Anton Tantner, University of Vienna (anton.tantner@xxxxxxxxxxxx)


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Reuben S. Rose-Redwood, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography
University of
 Victoria
Victoria, B.C., V8P 5C2, Canada
redwood@xxxxxxx
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