Hannah Weston and I plan to run a session or two on HIV/AIDS and questions
of identity. The blurb for the session is below. If anyone would like to
join us by offering a paper, please get in touch with one of us before
January 25th and send us an abstract. You should also register your abstract
with the RGS/IBG [www.rgs.org/AC2005].
Please forward this notice to any lists that you think it suitable for.
Best wishes
Gerry Kearns
RGS/IBG session
Call for Papers
RGS/IBG Conference, 31 August – 2 September 2005
London
HIV/AIDS and the geographies of identities
This session intends to bring together the perspectives of political,
cultural and health geographers to examine the evolving and reciprocal
relations between HIV/AIDS and the geographies of identity.
Identity is constituted and contested through material, political and
ideological geographies. People locate themselves and are located by others
in terms of resolutely geographical frameworks. These frameworks are
material insofar as they incorporate ecologies of disease-risk and
inequalities of life chances. They are political because they express
choices about allocations and priorities. They are ideological because in
giving meaning to health and disease, geographical ideas render geographical
contexts as something akin to fate.
HIV and AIDS have transformed these geographies. Geographies of identity
have been incorporated into official as well as popular understandings of
what the HIV/AIDS means for individuals and societies. Such understandings
both express and constrain the forms of association with others that we term
identity. HIV and AIDS have posed mortal and moral challenges to these
identities through changing these material, political and ideological
geographies. We call for papers which explore how this has occurred.
Sponsored by the Geography of Health Research Group of the RGS/IBG. Please
send abstracts (circa 250 words) to either Gerry Kearns ([log in to unmask]) or
Hannah Weston ([log in to unmask]) by 25 January 2005.
Abstract submission forms may be downloaded from www.rgs.org/AC2005
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