CALL FOR PAPERS
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2007 28th-31st August 2007, RGS, London
Session Title: Lifecourse geographies
Jointly sponsored session between the Women and Geography Study Group and the Geographies of Children Youth and Families Working Group.
Session Convenors: Carol Ekinsmyth (University of Portsmouth); Mark Riley (University of Portsmouth)
This session will bring together varied work that has as its focus the relationship between stages, or a stage, in the life course and the social production of space or place. There is currently a good deal of work being undertaken in Geography on varying age groups (from children and youths to the elderly), varying households/ family types (symmetrical, non-symmetrical and GLBT families) and on social change conceived under the banner of the second demographic transition. The session hopes to bring together some of these strands and in doing so encourage further theorisation of the role of space/place in the lives of individuals and families at various stages through the life course and the role of changing household demography and composition in the transformation of places. While much of the initial interest in the broad areas of life course, age and family have emerged from a gender perspective, parallel interests are burgeoning in the marginalisation and ‘otherness’ of groups in rural areas and this session hopes to provide a useful forum for dialogue between those researching in these areas. Possible themes may include, but are not be restricted to:
Changing household geometries and rural/urban transformation
Spaces and places of childhood/youth/young family life or parenthood/old-age
Risk and change and the life course
Work-life balance
Migration, housing and the life course
Household consumption at different life course stages
New considerations of the ‘family farm’
Changing nature of [rural] work
The changing nature/de-traditionalisation of the life course
Informal enquiries, and abstracts of no more than 200 words, should be sent to Carol Ekinsmyth ([log in to unmask]) or Mark Riley ([log in to unmask]) by February 2nd 2007.
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