Apologies for re-posting - I just wanted to clarify some details with regard to the following CFP...



This is a call for papers for a themed session at the 50th Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, which will be held 30 June to 4 July at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania. Abstracts are due by 31 March 2008. Please reply directly to Andrew Gorman-Murray, details below...



Session title: 'Scales and spaces of sexuality and gender'



Call for papers: This session builds on the success of three specialist sessions on ‘Geographies of sexuality and gender “down under”’ convened at the 2007 IAG in Melbourne. Last year’s sessions offered an ‘Australasian perspective’ on geographies of sexuality and gender, presenting specific Australian and New Zealand case studies and highlighting the particular insights made by researchers from ‘down under’ into the interconnections between sexuality/gender and space. The sessions were interdisciplinary, with participants drawn from a range of disciplines, including geography, planning, cultural studies, sociology, and gender studies. 



In 2008 we aim to augment this success. We again call for papers from a range of disciplines addressing any geographical aspect of sexuality and/or gender. This time, extending the ‘Australasian perspective’ of 2007, we particularly encourage participants to consider the scale of sexualised and gendered spaces. Geographical work on sexual citizenship and HIV/AIDS governance, for instance, has begun to draw attention to the complex impacts of different scalar relationships on rights, practices and identities of sexuality (e.g. David Bell and Jon Binnie (2006), ‘Geographies of sexual citizenship’, special issue of Political Geography). Similarly, in Closet Space Michael Brown (2000) demonstrated how the affects of the ‘closet’ work at multiple scales simultaneously, from the body to the city, the nation and the globe. Advancing these insights, we encourage participants to think about the multiple scales structuring Australian and/or New Zealand spaces of sexuality and gender. How are legalities, practices, identities and communities structured differently at various scales from the local to the global? What are the connections between sexualised/gendered identities, communities, practices and rights in Australia, New Zealand and wider global networks? How are these identities, communities, practices and rights shaped by processes at work across multiple scales simultaneously, including the local, state, national and global?



Convenor: Dr Andrew Gorman-Murray, Research Fellow, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, 2522; [log in to unmask]





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Dr Andrew Gorman-Murray, BA (UNSW) PhD (Macq.)



Research Fellow

School of Earth and Environmental Sciences

University of Wollongong, NSW, 2522



Research Officer

Rural Cultural Research Program

ARC Cultural Research Network



http://www.uow.edu.au/science/eesc/eesgenstaff/UOW003012.html