Tourists and Migrants (un)expected encounters in the Mediterranean La Valletta, Malta Cultural heritage is commonly thought as a product of the longstanding link between people and their own territory. But, as anthropologist James Clifford shown us, in our contemporary world culture and identity are associated to "routes" as much as to "roots". We are prompted to recognize that different kinds of mobility and flows are closely connected to the global dynamics of place making. The...
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Call for Papers for session at the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) Conference, London Family – as both rhetoric and personal relationship – has long been a preoccupation of national and racial projects. Think of ‘motherland’ and ‘fatherland’, or the policing of inter-marriage in colonial race-building enterprises (Stoler, 2002) and in the wake of ‘ethnicized’ conflicts (Morokvasic-Müller 2004). Both ‘family’ and ‘home’ have protective, welcoming connotations but like the nation, can...
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At the limits of migrant justice, resistance, and solidarity Session organisers: Leah Montange (University of Toronto) & Sarah M. Hughes (Durham University, UK). Please see below for a CFP for the Canadian Association of Geographers annual conference in Winnipeg 27-29 May 2019. The political acts, subjectivities, and contestations of migrating or border crossing people has become an increasingly pervasive theme within and beyond Political Geography.  Scholars have attended to how migrants without formal citizenship are able to...
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