Annual conference of the Association of American Geographers –
Las Vegas, March 22-27, 2009
Call for papers: Gendered Geographies of Transition in Southeast Asia
In recent years, Southeast Asia has experienced spectacular economic growth with
dramatic changes taking place in the lives of men and women. Taking an explicitly
gendered approach that seeks to understand men’s lived experiences and masculine
identities as well as women’s, this session seeks to question how people in the region are
variously responding to, and being affected by, transition. This transition is diversely
manifest and encompasses changes arising, inter-alia, from processes of market
integration, growing global interconnectedness, moves towards liberal democracy and the
retreat from divisive and destructive war. Hence papers are encouraged from across the
Southeast Asian region so as to reflect the cross-cutting gendered transformations afoot
at different spatial scales - including the body, workplace, home, city, country, province,
region, nation and cosmopolitan. Theoretical and empirical papers are welcomed
examining all aspects of how different elements of transition are changing the nature of
gender relations in the region and/or the links between transition and gender (in)equality.
Authors are invited to submit a title and brief abstract (not more than 250 words) to the 

session organizer Katherine Brickell ([log in to unmask]) by October 1st at the
latest.
(apologies for cross-posting)
Dr Katherine Brickell
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Geography
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey,
TW20 0EX
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