AAG Session on Spaces of Emergent Authority

At a very interesting AAG (Association of American Geographers) conference in Chicago, Julian Brigstocke and Leila Dawney convened a double panel on Spaces of Emergent Authority. We hope very much to continue these discussions into the future.

Papers included:

• Leila Dawney (Brighton University, UK), 'Authority's grip: Attachments and Alienations'
• Juliane Collard (University of British Columbia, Canada), 'Embodied Subjects, Emergent Authorities:Theorizing an Approach to Assisted Reproduction'
• Elsa Noterman (University of Wisconsin, USA) 'Manufacturing the Commons Through Differential Commoning'
• Tehseen Noorani (Johns Hopkins University, USA) 'Psychadelic Encounters: Clinical Research and the Authority of Experience'
• Nathan L. Clough (University of Minnesota, USA) 'Three cuts at a critical theory of affect in the Western Martial Arts'
• Julian Brigstocke (Cardiff University, UK) 'The Long Violence of Truth: Laughter, Violence and the Reinvention of Authority in Anarchist Urban Politics'
• Punam Khosla (York University, Canada),  'Corporeal violence and the material logic of race, gender and sexual embodiment'
• Claire Blencowe (University of Warwick, UK)  'Authority Crises, Transcendence, & the Drive towards Destruction in the Time of the Now'