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IBG-RGS Conference 26-28 August 2009. Call for papers for Women and
Geography Study Group (WGSG) sponsored session:
Spaces, Contexts and Practices of Female Entrepreneurship.
Session Convenor: Carol Ekinsmyth. Department of Geography,
University
of Portsmouth, Buckingham Building, Lion Terrace, Portsmouth. PO1 3HE
UK
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This is the final call for papers. The deadline given in an earlier
email has been extended to Friday February 6th.
Female entrepreneurship is a significant economic phenomenon in
countries around the world, and this phenomenon is increasing.
Governments are keen to encourage this expansion. Some suggest that
women*s businesses are different to men*s (Ahl 2006, Hanson 2003,
Hanson and Blake 2004) in terms of their nature, location, type,
contexts and the way that business is done. Whilst this phenomenon has
been investigated in the entrepreneurship literature, limited empirical
investigation has been undertaken within geography (Hanson, 2003).
Existing knowledge on the subject tends to be based upon extensive
research on large-scale databases rather than detailed, intensive
research designs (Aldrich and Cliff, 2003). It has also been argued that
women*s participation in entrepreneurship, and indeed self-employment
generally, is under-theorised (Blake, 2006; Ahl, 2006; Lewis 2006).
In a forthcoming paper concerned with transnational entrepreneurs,
Yeung (2009) suggests that geographers need to advance a more nuanced
understanding of the different spatialities of entrepreneurship. It is
hoped that this session will contribute to such an agenda by considering
the varying spatialities of female entrepreneurship, a consideration
that frequently maps the *economic realm* onto and into the intimate
spaces of family and community life. The papers in this session should,
in one way or another, give consideration to the contexts within which
female entrepreneurship takes place. Of course the nature of female
entrepreneurship and the conditions under which it is achieved
varies/vary greatly between countries and continents. This session aims
to engage with this variety.
N.B. Definitional difficulties surrounding the term
*entrepreneurship* abound. For the purposes of this session, the
term embraces the broadest possible definition/ set of business
start-ups/ new business venturers - whatever the scale or type of
business. Indeed, the session might even question the usefulness of the
term *entrepreneurship* or challenge the class and gender-based
assumptions embedded within it.
If you are interested in submitting a paper, please contact Carol
Ekinsmyth ([log in to unmask]). The deadline for submission of
abstracts is February 6th 2009 (extended). Please include the following
information when you submit your abstract:
Name:
Affiliation:
Contact email:
Title of proposed paper:
Abstract (no more than 250 words):
Any technical requirements (video, data projector, sound, etc.):
Carol Ekinsmyth
Department of Geography
University of Portsmouth
Dr Carol Ekinsmyth
Principal Lecturer
Department of Geography
University of Portsmouth
Buckingham Building
Lion Terrace
Portsmouth PO1 3HE
023 9284 2474 or
023 9284 2507
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