Klinger Organizing AAG Conference Session
Julie Klinger, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, is organizing a conference session at the upcoming Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers to be held in Boston from April 2017.
The event will be held at the Hynes Convention Center, Marriot Copley Place and Sheraton Boston from April 5-9, 2017. Klinger is organizing the session with Danny Bednar of the University of Western Ontario.
The conference session brings together critical geographers interested in non-Earth spaces to discuss how human endeavors are extending many of the most central issues in geography—property rights and enclosures, the politics of knowledge production and questions of pollution and conservation.
Organizing annual paper sessions that convene the latest research on outer space geography is part of Klinger’s ongoing research initiative Capitalizing the Cosmos. This is the third year such a session has been hosted at the AAG annual meeting. Klinger also recently gave a talk on the subject at the Royal Geographical Society in London.
Klinger said the organizers invite papers that contribute to the continuing maturation of the field focusing on this year’s theme of the intersection of the critical geopolitics of outer space with human rights issues. You can view a list of suggested topics here.
Julie Klinger specializes in development, environment, and security politics in Latin America and China in comparative and global perspective. She is currently completing a book project on the global geography of rare earth prospecting and mining, with a special emphasis on the development and geopolitics of resource frontiers in Brazil, China, and Outer Space. Learn more about her here.