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Second Call for Papers
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
Seattle, April 12-16, 2011
Towards a Critical Geography of Age
Organizer: Nancy Worth, University of Leeds (Leeds, UK)
Social categories of difference orient research priorities for many human geographers. After the 'trinity' of gender, class and race, other categories are now receiving sustained attention, including sexuality and (dis)ability. More recently, age has become part of the debate-as a social identity that varies across space (Del Casino Jr, 2009) rather than a process of biological development. In geography this focus is often divided into age ranges, from the subfield of children's geographies to the growing set of research on old age, leading to the critique that there is only interest in the margins (Hopkins and Pain, 2007).
This session is interested in encouraging greater connections between geographers concerned with children and young people, old age and everywhere in between, as well as finding commonalities in theory and practice (learning from the more integrated approach already present in family studies and research on migration). The session is specifically interested in ideas of intergenerationality (Vanderbeck, 2007) and intersectionality (Valentine, 2007) that complicate the social category of age, as well as new understandings around temporality and spatiality that add layers of meaning to experiences of the lifecourse and transitions between life stages (Horton and Kraftl, 2006). Of particular interest are papers that move across scale, connecting personal geographies of age to wider issues around globalization (Ruddick, 2003), economic processes (Nairn and Higgins, 2007) and social change. The aim is a paper session with a discussant, to draw connections between papers and to leave plenty of time for discussion about what a critical geography of age should look like.
Papers are invited on a wide selection of themes, including (but not limited to):
* Theorizing age in geography, from developmental psychology and biology, to theories of embodiment, emotion/affect, temporality, and performance (among others)
* Adulthood's absent presence in geographies of age
* Creating and contesting age identities across space
* Spatial implications of intersectionality
* Ageing and the family
* Challenging normative patterns in the lifecourse
* Methodological issues, and innovative methods for capturing experiences of age in different life spaces
Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words (and an AAG ID) to Nancy Worth ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by the 15th of October.
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