CALL FOR PAPERS: 'COMPLEX HOUSEHOLDS; CHAOTIC FAMILIES'
RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Belfast, 2-6 January 2002
Half-day session organised by the Women and Geography Study Group and
the Limited Life Working Party on Children, Youth and Families
Convenors: Sarah Maguire (Ulster) and Nicola Ansell (Brunel)
Many geographers have conducted research on/with families/households in
recent years, sometimes with the family/household and its
internal relationships as their primary focus, sometimes focusing on
ways in which families constrain or offer opportunities to individual
members. This session aims to bring together a diversity of approaches
to researching families. 'Family' may be understood in its widest
sense, and includes both contemporary and historical families and
families in diverse geographical contexts.
Themes that might be explored include (but are not restricted to):
=Families and gender roles (e.g. in relation to employment, masculinity
in the homespace)
=Families facing exclusion (e.g. due to children's behaviour or
poverty or race)
=Coping with complex families (fragmented families, single parenthood,
complexity in nuclear families, families with special needs children)
=Generational relationships
=Temporal and spatial aspects (distribution of time between home and
work, home and school, leisure time at/ outside the home/ with the
family etc)
Titles and abstracts (250 words max) should be sent to the
convenors by 31st May 2001.
Contact details:
Dr Nicola Ansell, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Brunel
University, Uxbridge, West London, UB8 3PH; Tel: 01895 274000 ext 2481;
Fax: 01895 203217; Email: [log in to unmask]
Dr Sarah Maguire, Teaching and Learning Development Unit, School of
Environmental Studies, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern
Ireland, BT52 1SA; Tel: 02870-324-686; Email: [log in to unmask]
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