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Please see below a call for papers for a session in the RGS-IBG Annual
Conference 2008 (27-29 August).
Materialities of Gender and Place
Convenors: Helen Holmes and Lucy Crane (University of Sheffield)
Sponsored by the Women in Geography Study Group (WGSG)
This session will focus upon why issues of gender and place matter within
geography as a discipline, and also the wider world. This will involve dealing
with ‘matter’, in terms of the value of current geographical debates on gender
and place, but also attending to ‘matter’ in a more material sense. The
relationship between gender, place and materiality gives academics the
opportunity to explore notions of inequality and diversity, and to engage with
the aesthetic and the constructed.
This leads to a need for questions such as:
How is the gendering of place materialised (for instance, through practises,
objects, performance)?
How do place and gender intersect with race, ethnicity, sexuality, class,
(dis)ability and culture?
What part does materiality play in these intersections?
Does this renewed interested in materiality provide an empirical opportunity
for
gender and place to engage wider public interest?
Can it help geography to ‘matter’?
This session aims to address how current debates about gender, place and
materiality make geography matter (or how they do not).
Papers are welcome on a wide variety of topics concerning gender, place and
materiality.
Please send your abstracts of between 150 - 200 words to Lucy Crane
([log in to unmask]) by the Monday 14th Jan 2008
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