<<...OLE_Obj...>> Seminar announcement and call for participants
Youthful Ruralities 19th February 2003 University of Wales, Swansea
Colin Ward's The Child in the Country (1988) was one of the key texts that
led to the surge in interest over the past decade in recognising the great
diversity of everyday rural experiences, as exemplified in collections such
as Cloke and Little (1997) Contested Countryside Cultures and Milbourne
(1997) Revealing Rural 'Others'. Childhood and youth experiences of
rurality were seen then and continue to be recognised through the work of
Gill Jones, Owain Jones, Hugh Matthews, Gill Valentine and others as often
telling quite different and distinctive stories from those of adults. Yet
it is still the latter that predominate in the rural literature, making
young people's experiences consequently rather a 'youthful' form of
knowledge.
The aim of this seminar is to bring together an interdisciplinary group of
researchers - geographers, sociologists, planners, policy researchers - who
are interested in the varied aspects of young people's lives in the
countryside. Issues that may be explored from the perspective of younger
people include: leisure practices, cultural meanings, the significance of
'nature', experiences of deprivation, service access, building an identity
and biographies of migration.
Please send proposed paper titles with abstract (up to 150 words) and more
general expressions of interest in attending to:
Dr Keith Halfacree, Department of Geography, University of Wales Swansea,
Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP. Email: [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Deadline for titles and abstracts - 13th January 2003- extended a little.
Booking forms are available from the same address. Besides a charge for
lunch and coffee, there will only be a nominal fee of £10 (waived for
postgraduates) to cover the organiser's costs for this seminar.
About the Rural Economy and Society Study Group
The Rural Economy and Society Study Group (RESSG) provides a forum for
social scientists working on social, cultural, economic and political issues
in rural areas of the UK and Europe. It also serves as a point of contact
between academic, policy and practitioner communities working in these
areas. The RESSG organises an annual conference and other one-day research
meetings. Membership of the RESSG is free and contact with members is
maintained through an internet site and electronic mailing list.. Further
details about the RESSG (including an electronic membership form) can be
found at http://www.cf.ac.uk/cplan/ressg/index.html or by contacting Dr Paul
Milbourne at [log in to unmask]
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