Dear All,
Please find below a call for papers for the transport sessions at the 2005
Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of
British Geographers). Now that this conference is in its third year of not
clashing with the UTSG event, we hope to see as many as possible of UTSG
colleagues in London. For more details about the conference, please visit
www.rgs.org
Many thanks,
Jon Shaw,
Chair, Transport Geography Research Group, RGS-IBG.
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference London 2005, Aug
31- Sept 2
Sessions organised by: Transport Geography Research Group (RGS-IBG)/
Arbeitskreis Verkehr (German Geographical Society)/ Transportation
Specialty Group (Association of American Geographers
There is a rising interest in academic geography in mobility, flows and
space. This occurs with particular respect to globalization processes.
Personal, social and virtual mobility is recognised as increasingly worthy
of academic study; the modern individual is supposed to be mobile and/or
connected, and relies on access to both transport and communications means
and infrastructure. There are also increases in trade and materials
movement. How the generic increase in the movement of goods, persons, ideas
and information is changing the meaning and the constitution of
geographical space, is subject to debate and investigation.
Against this background, the British, German and North-American transport
geography research groups jointly propose sessions on the topic of
Transport Flows and Spaces, to be held at the 2005 RGS/IBG Annual
Conference in London. We invite people from both inside and outside
academic geography to prepare papers relevant to the outlined topic.
We expect our sessions to promote and strengthen interdisciplinary dialogue
on a broad range of mobility issues, between the different strands of human
geography and also between different social sciences. It is also our desire
to connect conceptual ideas with empirical research undertaken at a variety
of spatial scales.
Please submit abstracts of no more that 200 words to:
Dr Jon Shaw, University of Aberdeen, UK (TGRG),
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Dr Markus Hesse, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (AK Verkehr),
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no later than 31 January 2005.
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Dr Jon Shaw
Senior Lecturer in Geography
Department of Geography & Environment
University of Aberdeen
Elphinstone Road
Aberdeen AB24 3UF
United Kingdom
Tel: 44 (0)1224 273837
Fax: 44 (0)1224 272331
Email: [log in to unmask]
Web: www.abdn.ac.uk/geography/jshaw.hti
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