ANNOUNCEMENT

The 2024 IGU Thematic Conference “Connecting Geographies from the Global South” will be held in the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), in Quito, Ecuador, between May 15^th and May 17^th, 2024. This is a call for abstracts of scholarly work that promotes dialogue among geographical studies critically engaged with spatial and place-based thinking processes in the Global South. We are particularly interested in contributions that connect theory, methods, and research practices considering multidisciplinary, pluralistic and multiparadigmatic approaches.

The conference aims to facilitate intellectual exchange and to promote academic debates among scholars of emerging geographical epistemic communities in the Global South and elsewhere interested in addressing geographical issues in this part of the world. The main emphasis of the Thematic Conference is on connecting geographers of the world in an inclusive dialogue.   

Associated Comissions with this Conference - International Geographical Union 

• African Studies
• Gender and Geography: Care, Connection and Change
• Global Change and Human Mobility
• Land Use and Land Cover Change
• Latin American and Caribbean Studies
• Local and Regional Development
• Political Geography

Keynote Speakers

Inocent Moyo
Global (mis) governance and the immobilisation of Africans: The Africa-EU migration conundrum

Inocent Moyo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies and Deputy Dean of Research, Innovation, and Internationalisation in the Faculty of Science, Agriculture, and Engineering at the University of Zululand, South Africa. He researches borders, migration, and the political economy of the informal economy in the Southern African region.

Sofia Zaragocin
Geographies of the Global South and the Hemispheric Scale

Sofia Zaragocin holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania (USA). She has two master's Degrees in Gender: one from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO- Ecuador) and another from the University of Cambridge (England), where she also obtained her PhD in Geography. She is Co-Director and Coordinator of the Gender and Territory research line at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Inequalities at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador), where she is also a full-time research professor in the Department of International Relations. Her lines of research are decolonial feminist geography, geographies of the global south and the scale of the hemispheric and anti-racist geographies. She has written 27 indexed articles in Spanish and English and co-edited two books. Additionally, she is part of the editorial board of renowned journals such as "Antipode", "Gender Place and Culture", "Political Geography", among others.

Scientific Committee*

• María López-Sandoval, FLACSO Ecuador I Asociación Geográfica del Ecuador 
• Andrea Carrión, IAEN, Ecuador I Asociación Geográfica del Ecuador
• Pablo Cabrera-Barona, FLACSO Ecuador I Asociación Geográfica del Ecuador
• Viviana Buitrón, Universidad Santiago de Compostela | AGEc
• Innocent Moyo, University of Zululand, South Africa
• Chris Nshimbi, University of Pretoria, South Africa
• Josefina Domìnguez Mujica, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
• Barbara Staniscia, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
• Joseli Maria Silva, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, Brazil
• Mary Njeri Kinyanjui, University of Nairobi, Kenya
• Anindita Datta, University of Delhi, India
• Adriana Dorfman, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
• Virginie Mamadouh, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
• Maria Jose Piñeira, International Geographical Union
• Juan Manuel Delgado,National University of San Marcos I International Geographical Union
• Serge Schmitz,University of LiègeI International Geographical Union
• Ines Grigorescu,I International Geographical Union
• Virginie Mamadouh,I International Geographical Union

*Other members to be defined and completed by the Organizing Committee

Organizing Committee

• Pablo Cabrera-Barona, FLACSO Ecuador I AGEc
• María López-Sandoval, FLACSO, Ecuador I AGEc
• Andrea Carrión, IAEN I AGEc 
• Viviana Buitrón, Universidad Santiago de Compostela | AGEc
• Ruben Lois, Universidad Santiago de Compostela | International Geographical Union