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* FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS *
IBG 2002 - Belfast, January 2 - 5
Joint WGSG/UGRG session
GENDER, THE CITY AND EVERYDAY LIFE
The question how urban dwellers live and work is critical to the
future of cities. Though much data exists concerning the physical
location and stratification of jobs and housing in metropolitan areas,
our understanding of the way this engenders (and is in turn shaped by)
everyday life remains undeveloped. Addressing this gap, this session
works to generate a fine-grained portrait of urban living.
We know that on aggregate cities continue to lose jobs and population.
We also know through apocalyptic tales of house price inflation and
congestion that 'new economy' skills and capital concentrate in a
limited number of global 'honey pots'. This represents a now familiar
pattern of uneven development and social division. Yet these headline
trends mask significant diversity in localised response to global
problems. Arguably, we need to reach behind who are invading, who are
fleeing and who are being squeezed out of the city to expose the
material, practical and psychic constituents of urban life
underpinning such movements. Evidence that some workers hold multiple
jobs, many households comprise more than one breadwinner and others
split their lives between two or more locations bears testimony to the
increasing complexity of everyday life. This not only entails new
forms of 'flexible' employment but continuing reliance on unpaid,
voluntary, informal, 'hidden' work. To understand how urban dwellers
co-ordinate these multiple spheres of activity and identity this
session seeks to build on the strengths of feminist urban analysis and
the sociology of everyday life.
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Anyone who considers their work broadly to fit within gender
geographies/ social geographies/ cultural geographies is invited to
submit an abstract (200 words max) to Helen Jarvis (details below) by
June 15.
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Convenors:
Dr. Helen Jarvis
Department of Geography, University of Newcastle
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Dr. Loretta Lees
Department of Geography, Kings College London
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