Call for Papers for RGS-IBG 2005
Kensington Gore, London, 31 August-2 September 2005
Embodying Feminisms: realising the potential of feminist theorisations
of ‘the body’ for social and cultural geographies
Session Sponsored by SCGRG
Session Convenor Rachel Colls, University of Liverpool, UK
Based upon Jacobs and Nash’s (2003) observations about the ‘suggestive
possibilities’ that recent re-workings of ‘culture’ and ‘cultural
geography’ have for feminist geography, this session conversely aims to
consider the theoretical and empirical possibilities opened up by
geographers’ engagements with feminist theoretical work on ‘the body’.
Whilst the ‘non-representational’ and ‘embodied’ shift in social and
cultural geographies is now well established, engagements with feminist
inspired work on the body are often implied but seldom reflected upon in
this literature. This session is interested in focusing on the potential
that this work has for particular social and cultural geographical
thematics such as affect, emotions, materiality, dualistic epistemologies
and geographies of practices. Therefore, this session seeks papers which
draw upon the work of Grosz, Weiss, Iris Marion Young, Irigaray, Shildrick,
Butler, Gatens and Probyn, amongst others as well as feminist re-workings
of theoretical work on ‘the body’ such as Foucault, Merleau-Ponty and
Deleuze and Guttari. Moreover work is also encouraged which is based upon
empirical research with/as bodies which engages with, for example, the
specificities of bodily difference. Other potential topics of interest may
include:
Bodily boundaries
Bodily textures
Researching with/as bodies
Subjectivities
Dis/abilities
Bodies and representations
Bodies and political action
The session will consist of three paper sessions each with a discussant.
Abstracts (max 200 words) and expressions of interest to be sent to Rachel
Colls ([log in to unmask]) by 17th January 2005.
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