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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS - PLEASE NOTE REVISED DEADLINE
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2007 'Sustainability and Quality
of Life'
28th - 31st August 2007, at the Royal Geographical Society with IBG,
London.
Call for papers: Children, young people and 'disability'
Sponsored by the Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Working
Group
Convenors: Michelle Pyer, Sara Ryan, Faith Tucker, John Horton and Peter
Kraftl
In the last two decades, Geographers have contributed importantly to
understandings of the social, spatial and environmental barriers
experienced by people with 'disabilities', impairments and mental health
issues. However, within this body of work, the geographies of children
and young people remain relatively marginalised. Presently, there is a
particularly pressing need for better understandings of these too-often
neglected geographies in at least three senses.
* First, there is growing awareness that Social Scientific
research regarding children and young people - under the rubric of
'Children's Geographies', for example - has too-often failed to consider
the experiences, issues and needs of children and young people with
'mind-body-emotional differences' (Holt, 2004). Thus there is a need for
a much wider spectrum of research and enquiry, to begin to attend to the
diverse experiences, geographies and 'differences' in existence.
* Second, a raft of recent legislative interventions - such as the
UK's Disability Discrimination Act (1995) and Special Educational Needs
and Disability Act (2001) - demand better understandings of, and new
modes of practice and engagement with, younger disabled people. In
addition, there is thus a need for reflection upon relationships between
policy, practice and academic enquiry in this field.
* Third, diverse work by 'disability' activists and practitioners
has successfully articulated a range of profound methodological,
philosophical, and empirical challenges for academic researchers. Thus
there is a need for innovative methods, concepts, ethics and
participatory mechanisms which facilitate and enhance current and future
empirical research and practice, particularly with the diversity of
individual experience in mind.
This session thus seeks to draw together, and reflect upon, the widest
possible range of recent/ongoing research, practice and theory regarding
geographies of children and young people with 'disabilities',
impairments and/or 'mind-body-emotional differences'. In particular, we
encourage submissions relating to the following themes.
* 'Disability', childhood and youth in diverse geographical
contexts (past and present)
* 'Disability' and younger people's autonomy, choice and
accessibility
* 'Disability' and younger peoples mobilities
* 'Disability' and early childhood
* 'Disability', youth cultures and identity
* 'Disability', 'family' life, and the 'home'
* Social/cultural geographies of 'difference' and disability
* Designing inclusive environments for children and young people
with 'disabilities'
* Theorising 'mind-body-emotional differences'
* Embodiment and disabled (young) people
* 'Disability' and 'growing up'
* 'Disability' and emotional/affective geographies of childhood
and youth
* Methodological and ethical issues in research with younger
'disabled' people
* Developing innovative participatory/collaborative research and
practice between policy-makers, practitioners and academic enquiry
Please submit abstracts (Max. 200 words) to
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Michelle Pyer
Centre for Children and Youth,
Knowledge Exchange,
The University of Northampton,
Boughton Green Road,
Northampton,
NN2 7AL
The revised deadline for abstract submissions is 31st January 2007.
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