[Commlist] cfp: Camp Geographies - RGS-IBG Conference 2023

*CfP: Camp Geographies*
RGS-IBG Conference, 29 August – 1 September, London, UK.

*Session organisers: Joe Jukes and Josep A. Chanza*
*Session Sponsor: Space, Sexualities and Queer Research Group (SSQRG)*
*Key words: queer, camp, sexuality, cultural geography, performance*
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What happens to geography when it appears ‘mincing and screaming’ (Dyer, 
2002:49)? Or when its aim is to ‘dethrone the serious’ (Sontag, 
2018:26)? This is the proposition of a /camp geography/, one that takes 
an ‘ironic perspective on socially authorized (or “serious”) values’ 
(Halperin, 2012:201) of the discipline. Camp and its related aesthetic 
modes – /kitsch, pastiche, cheese/ – come to life in queer spaces and 
subcultural relations, literary criticism, anthropology and cultural 
studies (cf. Newton, 1979). What then, for geography?

We invite submissions that explore camp’s relation to space, that posit 
kitschy geographies that exceed, flourish or flop into the discipline. 
We are interested in the ethical limits of camp as a simultaneously 
subcultural and universal phenomenon, asking: what can the queer 
geographer do by recognising something or someone as ‘camp’, 
particularly when that ‘camp’ is perspectival and playful? How do we 
notice camp in environments and relations in which it is typically 
overlooked? What are the political imports of camp?

This session provides the opportunity for geographers to consider the 
potential of queer theoretical concepts that have been less taken up in 
our own discipline. Similarly, we wonder about the utility to 
geographers of ‘what we (queerly) know’ as camp to instances beyond gay 
and lesbian communities. All in all, what is the ‘value of camp’ for 
‘geographical knowledge production’ (Binnie, 1997:228)?
We invite and look forward to papers, performances and other forms of 
presenting that consider:

  * *Camp in translation*
  * *Camp **/et al: /**kitsch, pastiche, exaggeration, or cheese*
  * *Camp potential, camp destructivity*
  * *Historical camp*
  * *Black camp*
  * *Gender and camp*
  * *Generations of camp*
  * *Camp as research method*
  * *Geographies of camp excess and failure*
  * *Camp as dissidence*
  * *Pastiche and / or parodic spatial practices*

For an extended version of the list above, including questions and 
provocations, please see: bit.ly/CampGeographies 
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Please send 200 word abstracts to (J.Jukes3 /at/ brighton.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(J.Jukes3 /at/ brighton.ac.uk)> or (jalmude2 /at/ ed.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(jalmude2 /at/ ed.ac.uk)>  by the 12^th  March, 2023. Include in your 
submission your name, affiliation, and contact details, and feel free to 
direct any questions to these addresses.

For more information about the RGS-IBG 2023 conference, see: 
https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/ 
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_Works Cited_
Binnie, J., 1997. Coming out of Geography: towards a queer 
epistemology?. /Environment and Planning D: Society and Space/, /15/(2), 
pp.223-237.
Dyer, R., 2002. /The Culture of Queers/. London: Routledge
Halperin, D. M., 2012. /How to be Gay./ Harvard University Press.
Newton, E., 1979. /Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America. /Univ. 
Chicago Press.
Sontag, S., 2018 [1961]. /Notes on camp/. Penguin UK.

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