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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference 2008 'Geographies that Matter', August 08, London, UK.
Paper session sponsored by the Women and Geography Study Group
SESSION CONVENORS: Kate Boyer (University of Southampton) and Emma Wainwright (Brunel University)
Geographies that matter: geographies of care
This session seeks to draw together recent work from within and beyond Geography on new spaces of care. Long beyond the scholarly gaze, in recent years caring has emerged within the discipline as a rich area of study. From the expansion of technologies designed to open up new ways of caring, to the emergence of work practices that require more and more extreme solutions to accommodate care-giving, this scholarship has shown how care relations produce geographies that matter. Indeed, to many people, these relations and spaces are the ones that matter most. This session hopes to draw together papers exploring a range of topics within this set of issues. Paper topics might include but are not limited to:
Caring at a distance;
Technology and care practices;
Ethics of care;
Spatio-temporal strategies of caring and/or parenting;
'Transnational parenting';
Caring and 'work-life' balance.
Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words to:
Kate Boyer [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> and
Emma Wainwright [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> by 1st February.
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