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AAG Session on Spaces of Emergent Authority

3/5/2015

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'

Authority and Political Technologies 2015 programme

AAG Session on Spaces of Emergent Authority

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