Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Melbourne
Session Title: Critical Geographies of China & Southeast Asia
Convenors: Sarah Rogers, Yuan Zhenjie, and Vanessa Lamb (University of Melbourne)
This session aims to draw together a network of scholars (particularly PhD students and early career researchers) who do critical geography in and about China or Southeast Asia. We are seeking papers that engage with diverse theories including but not limited to Marxist political economy, feminist political ecology, governmentality, social practice, hydropolitics, critical development studies, and critical urban theory, and ask questions about how these theories travel or fail to travel to these places.
We welcome a range of topics, methods, and theoretical standpoints, but ask that papers consider some or all of these questions: How are theoretical frameworks that have often been developed in Western contexts revised, enriched, or subverted through geographical research in China or Southeast Asia? What theoretical developments are taking place in China or Southeast Asia and to what extent are these ideas travelling? How is this interplay shaping ways of doing critical geography in China or Southeast Asia?
Supported by the Critical Development Studies Group/DevNet.
Please send abstracts of 150-200 words to rogerssm@unimelb.edu.au by 30 March 2018.