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Call for Papers
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2007
'Sustainability and Quality of Life'
28th - 31st August 2007, at the Royal Geographical Society with IBG,
London.
Mobilising the City: the politics of movement, fixity and representation
(Sponsored by the Urban Geography Research Group)
Convenors: Jennie Middleton (Kings College, London) & Justin Spinney
(Royal Holloway University of London)
The mobilities turn in geography is now well established and has
provided a much needed strategic basis for a timely critique of
place-based accounts of social and cultural landscapes, practices and
materialities (Cresswell, 1997, 2002; Edensor, 1998, 2004; Wylie,
2003). Some recent accounts have begun to explore the relations between
movement and fixity (Adey, 2006; Urry, 2003) yet these ideas have been
explored in a relatively narrow range of settings. Consequently there
is a need to address these issues in contemporary urban settings and
examine the politics and obduracy of particular forms of mobility and
movement in the city.
This session seeks to examine these issues with empirically grounded
urban research exploring five key questions:
Why do certain forms of mobility and immobility endure?
What are the lived experiences of particular forms of mobility and
can such knowledges inform a more nuanced politics of
mobility/immobility?
What are the relations and affects between different scales of
mobility/immobility?
What are the space-time geographies of movement and immobility?
How, why and by whom are different mobilities and immobilities
represented?
In asking these questions we invite papers that discuss these key
issues. Topics may address but are not confined to:
Domestic mobilities/ immobilities of the home, garden and work etc
Time-space rhythms of movement and fixity in and through modes and
spaces of mobility (the car, the station, the plane etc)
The obduracy of landscape, materiality and practice and
representations of place and space in (re)producing mobility and
immobility (art, film, museums etc)
The struggles and contradictions between mobility and immobility and
resistances to movement and stasis (eg. the geographies and
experiences of migrants or disadvantaged groups)
Please send abstracts no longer than 200 words to Jennie Middleton
([log in to unmask]) or Justin Spinney ([log in to unmask])
by Friday 26th January 2007.
Jennie Middleton BA (Hons), MSc
PhD Research Student
Department of Geography
King's College London
Strand
London
WC2R 2LS
Tel: 020 78481623
Email: [log in to unmask]
Webpage:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/geography/people/phd/middleton.html
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