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Call for papers:
"Children and young people's health geographies: new perspectives,
approaches and admissible knowledges"
Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers
Annual International Conference: 26th-28th August 2009, Manchester.
Session co-sponsored by the Geographies of Children, Youth and Families
Working Group and the Geographies of Health Research Group
Session convenors: Natalie Beale (Durham University) and Jo Pike
(University of Hull)
Over recent years, children's bodies have become increasingly subjected
to medical and policy gazes with a myriad of interventions aimed at
averting potential public health crises. Reflecting some of these
current priorities, health geographers have engaged with concepts such
as obesogenic environments to suggest how space is implicated in the
production and maintenance of 'health'. Moreover, the concomitant
emergence of children's geographies as a distinct sub-disciplinary area
indicates a broader geographical interest in issues relating to children
and young people. Yet, despite the huge media and policy interest in
children and young people's health and well-being, there has generally
been little crossover between children's geographies and health
geographies. Whilst a small number of geographers have begun to explore
children's and young people's health in connection with specific issues
such as school meals, exercise and obesity (Colls and Evans 2007; Pike
2008; Rawlins 2008) there is often a lack of dialogue across
sub-disciplinary divides in relation to this theme.
This session aims to bring together work undertaken in different areas
of the discipline to explore issues relating to the geographies of
children and young people's health and well-being. Of additional
interest are epistemological questions about the kinds of knowledge
which do (not) 'count' when considering children and young people's
health, including the ways such knowledges are generated and
represented, who they count for and how this affects their
'admissibility'. We welcome papers which address the following themes:
* Children and young people's lived experiences and ways these
impact upon physical and mental health and well-being.
* Relationships between environment (physical, material or social)
and children and young people's health and well-being.
* Ways of conceptualising or researching spatial and place-based
aspects of children and young people's health and well-being.
* The spaces through which children and young people's beliefs and
understandings about health are shaped, for example in relation to
family life or education.
* Issues relating to belonging and identity and their impact upon
children and young people's health-related beliefs, attitudes and
behaviours.
* The forms of knowledge which are admissible in medical, health
and children's geographies and the distinct contributions which
geography as a discipline can make to knowledge about children and young
people's health and well-being.
Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be sent to both Natalie Beale
([log in to unmask]) and Jo Pike ([log in to unmask]) by 3rd February
2009.
Miss Natalie Hazel Beale
Research Postgraduate
Department of Geography
University of Durham
Science Laboratories Site
South Road
Durham
DH1 3LE
Telephone 0191 334 1853 (direct line)
Email: [log in to unmask]
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