[News] RGS-IBG 2025 2nd CfP - Feminist C/artographies

[Katrin Singer]

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crossposting***

Liebe alle,
gerne teilen wir mit euch unseren Call for Papers für die Session Feminist C/artographies bei der RGS-IBG Tagung in Birmingham 2025.
Wir freuen uns auf spannende Rückmeldungen und über das Weiterleiten des Calls in alle möglichen Richtungen.

Schöne Grüße,
Katha und Katrin

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Dear all,
We are delighted to share with you our call for papers for the session Feminist C/artographies at the RGS-IBG conference in Birmingham 2025. We look forward to exciting feedback and to spreading the call in all possible directions.

Best,
Katha and Katrin

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RGS 2025 | Birmingham | Geographies of Creativity / Creative Geographies
CfP for the session


*Feminist C/artographies

*Inspired by recent feminist counter maps and map-making processes 
within and beyond geography, like the feminicide mappings of Sonia 
Madrigal, the Latin American Cuerpo-Territorio maps, the artworks of 
Firelei Baez or the art installation by Sonia Barrett in cooperation 
with Patricia Noxolo and others we invite papers that are interested in 
discussing possibilities, potentials and limitations of creative 
c/artographies for our discipline, especially from a feminist and 
decolonial perspective.

In line with this year’s conference statement, we believe creativity is 
part of any research process. Scholars such as Katherine McKittrick 
(2021), Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (2017), Sage Brice (2024), and 
Gloria Anzaldúa (Keating 2009) remind us that engagement with creativity 
is integral to producing feminist spaces. It has the potential to 
challenge powerful disciplinary habits, sustain and nurture feminist 
relationality, and create otherwise feminist insights.

In this session, we are interested in discussing which feminist 
perspectives, positionalities, spatial contexts, and methodologies 
produce which forms of critical c/artographies and how these can subvert 
and challenge spatially fixed, patriarchal, and Western ideas of maps 
and cartography (Singer et al. 2023).
It is essential to discuss critical feminist c/artographies that include 
ethical, processual, and decolonial feminist issues. To do this, we 
believe it is crucial to explore the limits and possibilities of a map 
and its practices and emphasize the need for further critical feminist 
c/artographies that come alive through collectivity, activism, 
vulnerability, care, solidarity, rage, and joy.

Therefore, we call for contributions that engage with critical 
c/artographies and intersectional feminisms by engaging with questions 
such as:
- What do feminist c/artographies look like? Showing examples that bring 
cartography, feminism and art into a critical dialogue.
- How can feminist c/artographic practices contribute to critically 
questioning hegemonic spatial concepts and producing transformative 
spatial relationalities?
- How can feminist c/artographies contribute to visually and creatively 
negotiating the patriarchal and Western ideas of cartography?
- What limits and pitfalls must we consider while working or engaging 
with feminist and artful maps as a methodology?

Presentation format: Both traditional paper presentations and mapping 
formats or other approaches to presentation and critical c/artographies 
are warmly invited.
We look forward to receiving proposals (abstract of approximately 250 
words) mailed to Katharina Schmidt (katharina.schmidt at uni-flensburg.de) 
and Katrin Singer (katrin.singer at uni-hamburg.de) by 23 February 2025.


Cited literature:
Brice, S. (2024). Critical observational drawing in geography: Towards a 
methodology for ‘vulnerable’ research. Progress in Human Geography, 
48(2), 206-223.
Keating, A. L. (2009) (Hrsg.): The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader. Durham: Duke 
University Press.
McKittrick, K. (2021): Dear Science and other stories. Durham: Duke 
University Press.
Simpson, L. B. (2017) As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through 
Radical Resistance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Singer, Katrin; Schmidt, Katharina & Neuburger, Martina (2023 (Eds.): 
Artographies – Kreativ-künstlerische Zugänge zu einer machtkritischen 
Raumforschung. Bielefeld: transcript.


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Dr. Katrin Singer

/pronouns//: sie, ihr / she, her/

Working Group "Critical Geographies of Global Inequalities"

Institute of Geography - University of Hamburg

Bundesstrasse 55

20146 Hamburg

GERMANY

Tel: +49 (0)40 42838-5202
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