> Apologies for cross-posting
>
> 2nd 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.
>
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>
>
> 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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