Call for Papers
Association of American Geographers 2008 Annual Conference, Boston, April
15-19
Mainstreaming young people's geographies
Catherine Alexander (University of Durham, UK) and Peter Hopkins
(Newcastle University, UK)
The session aims to explore the place(s) of young people's geographies
within the discipline, and the relationships between youth geographies and
other sub-fields of human geography. We encourage contributions that
reassert the importance of rethinking and unpacking the category 'youth'
and 'young people's geographies’ in general (for example, Wyn & White
1997); that seek to conceptualise youth geographies in a range of diverse
ways; (for example, Daiute & Fine 2003), and that show the multiplicity of
young people’s perspectives and experiences. The session aims to
mainstream the value of young people and young people's geographies within
human geography generally and the ways in which variabilities based on
age, ethnicity, social status, gender and ability contribute towards a
more comparative understanding of the diversity of what it means, and what
it is like, to be ‘young’ in different cultural contexts.
Papers may focus on a variety of themes, including (but not limited to):
- the (re)placing of young people within geography
- the relationships between 'children's geographies', 'youth geographies
and the discipline as a whole
- theoretical approaches in young people's geographies
- methods and methodological issues in researching young people's
geographies
- ways in which young people's geographies may be more fully integrated
into human geography
- key contributions of young people's geographies to other sub-fields of
the discipline
(e.g. social geographies, economic geographies, development studies,
political geographies) and vice versa.
- the participatory potential for young people to help shape and create
future trends in the discipline
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Catherine Alexander
([log in to unmask]) by 30 September 2007
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