We have had more interest than one session can hold. We need a couple more papers to fill out a second session. Please have another look at the session aims (below) and a think about how you might contribute to our conversation.
Much thanks,
Ariel Terranova-Webb & Shannon Hensley
AAG Conference, Las Vegas, 22-27 March 2009
Call for Papers
Circulating Stillness: investigating lived mobilities
Organizers: Ariel Terranova-Webb (The Open University)
Shannon Hensley (University of Exeter)
Sponser: Cultural Geography Specialty Group
Rather than merely documenting 'mobility' as the flow of goods or materials, recent geographical work on 'mobilities' begins to focus more on the performance of mobility or mobile performances, paying close attention to the ways in which mobilities are embedded in social life. This shift expands not only our understanding of lived mobilites, but also our approach to investigating geographies of both mobility and performance. For this session we invite papers that consider the following kinds of questions: What constitutes mobility? How is it experienced and lived? How do mobilities and mobile performances generate change and surprise but also regularity or stillness? How do mobilities become fixed? How do we research mobilities?
How do practices of being/becoming mobile become habitual or routine? What does this contribute to understanding the interplay of mobility and performance?
Papers for this session might address:
* lived mobilities
* sensorial experiences of mobility
* representations of mobilities and their effects
* performances of mobility and/or mobile identities
* mobile performances
* mobility and identity
* mobile bodies and places
* mobility and processes of social differentiation (such as inequality)
* innovative methods for researching mobilities
Authors are asked to submit a short abstract (under 250 words) to organizers Ariel Terranova-Webb ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) or Shannon Hensley ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) by November 10th.
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