Intimate Geopolitics Workshop
| Dates: | 3 November 2016 - 4 November 2016 |
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| Times: | All day |
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| What is it: | Workshop |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Current University students, General public |
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| Speaker: | Professor V. Spike Peterson |
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This one and a half day workshop seeks to explore the potentials and possibilities opened up by the turn towards thinking about geopolitics as part of the intimate everyday lives of people (as well as vice versa) and to bring existing work in this area into conversation. It will explore how new bordering processes are internalised, negotiated, and resisted in intimate relations and practices. This workshop brings together contributions from across the social sciences that attend to the interweaving of ‘bordering’ and ‘the intimate’ in ways that force us to think about the intertwining of intimacy and geopolitics.
Panellists:
Jon Binnie, Elena Barabantseva, Megan Daigle, Anne-Marie Fortier, Aoileann Ní Mhurchú, Michelle Obeid, Joe Painter, Reiko Shindo, Joseph Turner, Thomas Tyerman
Roundtable Participants:
Rachel Pain, Will Schroeder, Julia O’Connell-Davidson
The keynote will be given on Thursday 3rd of November by Leverhulme Visiting Professor V. Spike Peterson entitled 'Intimacy, Geopolitics and the State 1.15-2.15pm in The Coal Room
Keynote Abstract: How can loving emotions and intimate relations produce exclusions and social violence that trouble global relations? In this talk I first explore how variations of ‘the intimate’ shape geopolitical practices, often in unexpected ways. I then focus on the ‘love of marriage’ and consider how this produces not only inequalities of gender and sexuality but also of ethnicity/race, class and national prosperity. The latter inequalities are less often or less visibly identified with marriage, yet are key to urgent global issues, including today’s political polarizations and ‘migration crises.’
Booking enquiries:
aoileann.NiMhurchu@manchester.ac.uk
E.V.Barabantseva@manchester.ac.uk
Speaker
Professor V. Spike Peterson
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Coal Store Room
People's history museum
Left Bank, Spinningfields
Manchester
