Geographies of the body

 Thinking space through the body is the main objective of this scientific meeting.  But what do we mean by body in this context? Modern science has always been engaged with the production of bodies although underlied by the principle of a disembodied knowledge and subject. Geography performed a central role within this process, engaged with the project of defining essentialised regions and identities. Bodies and places understood as containers have been put under scrutiny in the last decades. In this sense, we try to go a step further contributing to the growing debate surrounding the notion of body as a place where emergent identities take shape namely by stressing the fluidity of boundaries and the connection of different kinds of bodies (human and non-human). Renewed conceptions of body fracture nature/culture relations that sustain modern spatialities. By the same token, those debates and practices are opening room to alternative subjectivities engaged with the critical task of detuning the production of geographical bodies along with the practice of rereading and rewriting worlds of lived experience and utterance.

 

Geografias do Corpo

Pensar o espaço através do corpo é o objectivo central do presente encontro científico. Mas, como pode entender-se o corpo neste contexto? A ciência moderna encontrou-se desde sempre envolvida na produção de corpos, assente no princípio de um sujeito do conhecimento descorporizado. A Geografia desempenhou um papel central neste processo, contribuindo para o projecto de definição de regiões e identidades essencializadas. Corpos e lugares entendidos como contentores de múltiplas ideologias e políticas, têm vindo a ser postos sob escrutínio nas últimas décadas. Neste sentido, tentaremos contribuir para o crescente debate em torno da noção de corpo entendido como lugar em que identidades emergentes tomam forma. Sublinhando a fluidez e porosidade das fronteiras de cada corpo, bem como a permanente conexão entre diferentes tipos de corpos (humanos e não humanos). Concepções renovadas de corpo fracturam as relações natureza/cultura que sustentam as modernas espacialidades. Literalmente criando espaço para subjectividades alternativas, estes debates encontram-se envolvidos na tarefa crítica de detonar a produção de corpos geográficos, bem como  com a prática da releitura e da re-escrita dos mundos da experiência vivencida e da enunciação.


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Org.
Ana Francisca Azevedo & João Sarmento (Geography Dept. - U. Minho & Centre for Geographical Studies - U. Lisbon), GeoPlanUm (Mónica Santos, José Maia, Marta Rodrigues, Ricardo Martins, Admilson Cabral) & Pedro Pereira - Grad. & Postgrad. students at Geo. Dept.-U. Minho


Lecture Room C2.36
- Azurém, Guimarães


Chair: João Sarmento

9:00-9:45 "Foucault's bodies", Chris Philo (Dept. Geographical and Earth Sciences - U. Glasgow, UK)

9:45-10:30 "Geographical bodies and other politics of place", Ana Francisca de Azevedo (Geo. Dept. U.Minho & CEG-U. Lisbon)

10:30-11:00 Debate

11:00 -11:30 Coffee break



Chair: J. R. Pimenta

11:30-12:15 "Learning to be affected: Geographies of/for conviviality"
Sarah Whatmore (School of Geography and the Environment, U. Oxford, UK)

12:15-13:00
"European women travelling in the Arab world: a gender and postcolonial perspective", Maria Dolors García Ramón (Dept. Geography, U. Autonomous Barcelona, Spain)

13:00-13:30 Debate

13:30-15:00 Lunch at the University

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Chair: João L. Fernandes

15:00-15:45
"A tent in the wild: zooming identity in Serpa Pinto's 'How I crossed Africa'", José Ramiro Pimenta (Geo. Dept.-U. Porto)

15:45-16:30 "Masculinity and Performativity of Colonized Body. An analysis of colonial photography of Henrique Galvão travel books" Paulo Jorge Vieira (IGOT, U. Lisbon)


16:30-17:00
Debate

17:00 -17:30 Coffee Break



Chair: Ana F. Azevedo

17:30-18:15  "Bodies and vulnerable territorialities: from deterritorialization to conscious self exposition to extreme limits" João Luís Fernandes (Geo. Dept., U. Coimbra)

18:15-19:00 "There and Back Again or Mother Goose reinvented -  aesthetics and body politics in Paula Rego and Angela Carter" Ana Gabriela Macedo (ILCH, U. Minho)

19:00-19:30 Debate


19:30-19:40 "A geography of what happens…" - short image performance. João Sarmento (Geo. Dept. U.Minho & CEG-U. Lisbon), Rui Vale de Sousa (Dept. Inf. Syst.-U. Minho) & Jorge Figueiredo (Dept. Inf. Syst.-U. Minho)


Abstracts

 
Send your registration (name, institution, address, email, and phone number) to j.sarmento@geografia.uminho.pt


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I Cult-G,  23th May, 2007

II Cult-G, November 11th, 2008

III Cult-G, 20th October 2010







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