Send to anyone with an interest in Deleuze please.
Annual Meeting of the Association for American Geographers, San Francisco
April 17-21, 2007
Paper session proposal
Deleuze in the geography of race
Some feminists have used Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy fruitfully to take issue with critical theory’s emphasis on language and psyche at the expense of the biological body. So what can Deleuze contribute to understanding race relations? What kind of spatiality does he offer, and does it allow for appreciating the turbulent and violent ways that bodies are discriminated under racism? The benefits of Deleuze and his collaborator Félix Guattari for studying spatial relations and movement is attested by the diffusion of some of their themes (territorialization, rhizome, nomad, smooth/striated, affect, topology, machinic assemblage, event, fold). The four books written by Deleuze and Guattari contain many seldom discussed discussions of fascism, colonization and the nation-state. On the whole Deleuze and Guattari are cognizant of the postcolonial capitalist situation which enables white men to exploit as well as fear others. In commentary, however, how the global geographies of racism and patriarchy remain in place despite or because of their leakages, is not fully clarified. A careful mapping of how racism works in a Deleuzoguattarian framework – through capital, fantasy and phenotypic difference – is very much due. Since the literature on Deleuze and race is fragmented, the session welcomes a diversity of contributions and cases. Papers could place a Deleuzian take on race aside or against other thinkers (Fanon, Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, Butler, Glissant, Agamben, Badiou). Whether the spatialities of race are approached through political economy, biogeography or literary criticism, perhaps Deleuze can loosely knot these approaches together.
Send your title and abstract to Arun Saldanha, saldanha@xxxxxxx.
arun saldanha
geography
university of minnesota
432 social sciences
267 19th av s
minneapolis mn 55455
usa
ph (1) 612-625-9660
fax (1) 612-624-1044
everything that cannot be understood does
nevertheless not cease to exist
(pascal, pensées § 261)
Annual Meeting of the Association for American Geographers, San Francisco
April 17-21, 2007
Paper session proposal
Deleuze in the geography of race
Some feminists have used Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy fruitfully to take issue with critical theory’s emphasis on language and psyche at the expense of the biological body. So what can Deleuze contribute to understanding race relations? What kind of spatiality does he offer, and does it allow for appreciating the turbulent and violent ways that bodies are discriminated under racism? The benefits of Deleuze and his collaborator Félix Guattari for studying spatial relations and movement is attested by the diffusion of some of their themes (territorialization, rhizome, nomad, smooth/striated, affect, topology, machinic assemblage, event, fold). The four books written by Deleuze and Guattari contain many seldom discussed discussions of fascism, colonization and the nation-state. On the whole Deleuze and Guattari are cognizant of the postcolonial capitalist situation which enables white men to exploit as well as fear others. In commentary, however, how the global geographies of racism and patriarchy remain in place despite or because of their leakages, is not fully clarified. A careful mapping of how racism works in a Deleuzoguattarian framework – through capital, fantasy and phenotypic difference – is very much due. Since the literature on Deleuze and race is fragmented, the session welcomes a diversity of contributions and cases. Papers could place a Deleuzian take on race aside or against other thinkers (Fanon, Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, Butler, Glissant, Agamben, Badiou). Whether the spatialities of race are approached through political economy, biogeography or literary criticism, perhaps Deleuze can loosely knot these approaches together.
Send your title and abstract to Arun Saldanha, saldanha@xxxxxxx.
arun saldanha
geography
university of minnesota
432 social sciences
267 19th av s
minneapolis mn 55455
usa
ph (1) 612-625-9660
fax (1) 612-624-1044
everything that cannot be understood does
nevertheless not cease to exist
(pascal, pensées § 261)