Mike:
Have registered and sent abstract.
Pablo
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Subject: Re: Emotions/participation AAG CFP
Pablo
I think you register (and PAY yourself) - then rachel will laod you pin
- paper and name to our session - but only after you have paid or she
will not be able to laod. REGISTER NOW and send poor rachel your pin
and ID details
Mike
Paul Routledge wrote:
> Rachel
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> Will I have to register separately for the AAG, or do you as convenor
> register all participants?
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
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> *From:* Discussion list on participatory geographies
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On Behalf Of *Rachel Pain
> *Sent:* 16 September 2009 13:10
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> *Subject:* Emotions/participation AAG CFP
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> *AAG Washington 14-18 April 2010*
>
> "Embodied, emotional and affective geographies of participation"
>
> Convenors: Mike Kesby (St Andrews University) and Rachel Pain (Durham
> University)
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> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> and
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> Participatory and community-based research involve processes of
> collaborative knowledge production that resituate those normally
> positioned as the objects of investigation to become co-architects and
> users of research (see Fine et al 2007). In their parallel pursuit of
> social justice and more fully /social /geographies (kinpaisby-hill
> forthcoming) - and following a long tradition of participatory praxis
> elsewhere within and beyond the academy - geographers such as Gerry
> Pratt, Marie Cieri, Caitlin Cahill, Sara Kindon and their community
> collaborators have drawn on and engaged with emotional and affective
> registers. Moreover, participatory geographies are well known for their
> non-verbal, non-textual, tactile and visual techniques which arguably
> engage participants' affective, emotional and cognitive capacities
> simultaneously. This session seeks to explore the embodied, emotional
> and affective dimensions of PAR methodologies but also of the wider
> processes of participatory knowledge production, political action and
> social change (see Askins 2009; Goodwin et al 2001; Pickerill 2008). The
> aim is to add to the growing body of critical and conceptual work on
> participation in order to understand and inform practice.
>
> We welcome papers that explore the possibilities for productive
> interactions between (i) the theory, practice and politics of
> participation, and (ii) understandings of emotion/affect in geography
> and other disciplines. Our interest in this session is especially
> participatory action/activist research, but we also welcome papers that
> address participatory praxis in teaching and University administration
> and politics.
>
> Papers might address the following issues:
>
> * How do desire, frustration, passion and optimism motivate
> participatory initiatives? How does anger facilitate participants'
> formulation of research questions, or hope sustain their
> involvement? And what are the benefits and dangers of
> emotional/affective engagement with research?
> * In what ways does participation work - or fail - through personal
> relationships? How do affection, trust, obligation, patience and
> so on between collaborators and co-researchers shape praxis?
> * In what ways do the tactile, material and embodied dimensions of
> participatory methods (such as participatory mapping, theatre,
> video, art, diagramming and photovoice) mobilise affective
> capacities and harness them for social change; linking 'affect
> with effect' (Kindon 2009)?
> * To what extent do the products and outputs of participatory
> projects produce or inspire an emotional/affective response in
> audiences, and how might this help sustain, reproduce and
> distanciate the effects of participation? How can these
> affects/effects be traced or known?
> * What are the embodied, emotional or affective dimensions of the
> discourse/practices that are so central to participation; such as
> equality, conscientization, empowerment, emancipation?
> * In what ways does the 'failure' of participatory initiatives lead
> to despondency, depression and disaffection that limits further
> research and/or the capacities of participants, and/or in what
> ways does failure inspire further action?
>
> Please send suggestions for feedback, or abstracts, to both convenors by
> Friday October 9^th 2009:
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> Rachel Pain
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> Department of Geography
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> University of Durham
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> Durham DH1 3LE
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> UK
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> +44 (0)191 3341876
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> Website:
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http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/research/researchclusters/?mode=staff&id=352
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<http://www.dur.ac.uk/geography/research/researchclusters/?mode=staff&id=352
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Senior Lecturer in Geography
School of Geography & Geosciences
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University of St Andrews
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