Today’s geographies of imperialism
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Date: 3/26/2023
Time: 8:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: Directors Row J, Sheraton, Plaza Building, Lobby Level
Type: Paper, Hybrid session with both in-person and virtual presenters
Theme: Toward More Just Geographies
Curated Track:
Sponsor Group(s):
Economic Geography Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Sohrob Aslamy Syracuse University
Chair(s):
Description:
Over the last decade, references to imperialism within geographic scholarship have ranged from studies of war and militarization, geopolitics and the discourses and rhetorics of “empire,” as well as the everyday experiences of underdevelopment in the Global South. While these discussions have done much to elucidate empire’s complex “geographic imaginaries” (Gregory 2004), such scholarship often treats imperialism itself as a contextual concept or as a self-evident process rather than examining how it operates as a set of capitalist class relations or the transformation of value across scales (Das 2017; Amin 2018). Pushing back against claims that imperialism’s relevance has waned (Harvey 2017) or that the concept forms yet another set of jargon, this CFP draws from calls within (Kipfer and Goonewardena 2007; Ortega 2020; Das 2021) and outside (Suwandi 2019; Chibber 2020; Patnaik and Patnaik 2021) the discipline, inviting scholars to refine and complicate our geographic understanding of contemporary imperialism.
Presentations (if applicable) and Session Agenda:
Jack Davies |
The Wages of Settlers: Settler Colonialism in the Geography of Imperialism |
Chris Meulbroek, University of British Columbia |
The U.S. Military and the Rise of “Big Tech Cities”: An Incorporated Comparison of Austin and Seattle |
Sohrob Aslamy |
Developing Dependency in Afghanistan: A Case Study of the Kabul New City Project |
Drew Kaufman, Queen's University |
The birth of vulture capitalism: Zaire and the business of the spatial fix |
Non-Presenting Participants
| Role | Participant |
| Discussant | Francesca T.C. Manning |
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Today’s geographies of imperialism
Description
Type: Paper, Hybrid session with both in-person and virtual presenters
Date: 3/26/2023
Time: 8:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: Directors Row J, Sheraton, Plaza Building, Lobby Level
Contact the Primary Organizer
Sohrob Aslamy Syracuse University
staslamy@syr.edu
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