RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2007 28th-31st August 2007, at
the Royal Geographical Society with IBG, London
Call for papers: Youth, mobility and transport
Co-sponsored by the Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Working
Group and the Transport Geography Research Group
Convenors:
Gina Porter, University of Durham, UK and Elsbeth Robson, University of
Durham/University of Malawi
This session focuses on mobility and immobilities among children and
young people. Mobility is not a clear–cut and homogenous phenomenon
(Kesselring 2006): discourses, institutions and practices bring it into
social reality. New opportunities for mobility not only produce and
change societies, but can shape the life course of individuals in
complex ways, with potentially far-reaching consequences. For some
young people, the potential for mobility offers excitement, challenges
and dangers; for others immobility is simply one reflection of a life
characterised by constraint and lack of opportunity.
We would welcome papers which consider both daily and longer-term
movements of children and young people, in low income and Western
country contexts, past and present.
Potential themes might include:
Practices and meanings of mobility for youth
Mobilised social inclusion/exclusion
Youth identities and cross-border migration
Refugee youth
Interactions with new transport technologies
Methodological innovation, including mobile ethnographies of and by youth
Mobilities and the construction of social networks among young people
Mobilities and health
Please submit abstracts (maximum 200 words) to [log in to unmask]
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Deadline for abstract submissions: 25th January 2007.
Dr Gina Porter
Department of Anthropology
University of Durham
43 Old Elvet
Durham DH1 3HN
UK
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