2019-Oct-07 : Panel accepted at next year’s Anthropology and Geography conference !
We are pleased do announce that our proposal for a panel at next year’s international conference Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future has been accepted!
The conference is jointly organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), the British Academy, the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, and the British Museum’s Department for Africa, Oceania and the Americas. It will be held from 4th to 7th June 2020 in SOAS and in the British Museum, London, UK.
Our panel is titled Mapping the Edible City: Making visible communities and food spaces in the city. Its convenors are Dr Ferne Edwards (RMIT Europe) and Katrin Bohn. André Viljoen is its co-convenor. We contend that geography and anthropology intertwine in urban cartography as they extend approaches to space, storytelling, place-making, power and engagement. It explores innovative food map-making approaches that empower communities and connect them to the city and place through food.
Please watch this website for further information! Our call for papers/contributions will go out soon!
The conference is jointly organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), the British Academy, the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, and the British Museum’s Department for Africa, Oceania and the Americas. It will be held from 4th to 7th June 2020 in SOAS and in the British Museum, London, UK.
Our panel is titled Mapping the Edible City: Making visible communities and food spaces in the city. Its convenors are Dr Ferne Edwards (RMIT Europe) and Katrin Bohn. André Viljoen is its co-convenor. We contend that geography and anthropology intertwine in urban cartography as they extend approaches to space, storytelling, place-making, power and engagement. It explores innovative food map-making approaches that empower communities and connect them to the city and place through food.
Please watch this website for further information! Our call for papers/contributions will go out soon!
Chart of the Red Sea mapping transportation routes and loading/unloading points. (image: Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) www 2019)
We will be looking for contributions responding to the following:
Traditional mapping practices have drastically changed in recent years from having an apolitical, authorative voice. Enabled by new technologies, maps are no longer singular, static or reductive but instead are being transformed to make visible, educate and to empower many, by engaging different perspectives, topics, tempos and mobilities. Traditionally based in geography due to an engagement with space and place, spatial and urban anthropology now also speak to the particularities of place and locality, while a geographical turn welcomes in ‘thick description’ as storytelling and new media to the map. Popular, novel approaches include radical, guerrilla, emotional and critical cartography which enrich current urban design and planning studies with complex and surprising findings. Urban food practices, a topic of increasing interest to all, urban design, anthropology and geography due to increasing urbanisation, environmental concerns, precarity and a desire to reconnect to nature and to one’s food source, are also prolific in uptaking new mapping styles. Using GIS and other forms of artist, participatory and community mapping, amongst others, food mapping provides a rich arena in which to apply mapping as a tool to communicate new ways of understanding urban space, identities, relationships, informal and alternative economies, mobilities, and connections in and across the city. This panel seeks papers that explore the tensions, criticisms, and new theoretical and methodological directions that such mapping introduces across disciplines in relation to key themes that include (but are not limited to) identity, space-use conflicts, gender, migration, the senses, ecology, productivity, and home/place-making through food.
Traditional mapping practices have drastically changed in recent years from having an apolitical, authorative voice. Enabled by new technologies, maps are no longer singular, static or reductive but instead are being transformed to make visible, educate and to empower many, by engaging different perspectives, topics, tempos and mobilities. Traditionally based in geography due to an engagement with space and place, spatial and urban anthropology now also speak to the particularities of place and locality, while a geographical turn welcomes in ‘thick description’ as storytelling and new media to the map. Popular, novel approaches include radical, guerrilla, emotional and critical cartography which enrich current urban design and planning studies with complex and surprising findings. Urban food practices, a topic of increasing interest to all, urban design, anthropology and geography due to increasing urbanisation, environmental concerns, precarity and a desire to reconnect to nature and to one’s food source, are also prolific in uptaking new mapping styles. Using GIS and other forms of artist, participatory and community mapping, amongst others, food mapping provides a rich arena in which to apply mapping as a tool to communicate new ways of understanding urban space, identities, relationships, informal and alternative economies, mobilities, and connections in and across the city. This panel seeks papers that explore the tensions, criticisms, and new theoretical and methodological directions that such mapping introduces across disciplines in relation to key themes that include (but are not limited to) identity, space-use conflicts, gender, migration, the senses, ecology, productivity, and home/place-making through food.
For information on the panel Mapping the Edible City see here.
For further information on the conference see the conference's website.
For more information on the design of the project see its Theory page on this website.
To keep up to date with the project's development see our blog Productive Urban Landscapes.
For further information on the conference see the conference's website.
For more information on the design of the project see its Theory page on this website.
To keep up to date with the project's development see our blog Productive Urban Landscapes.