RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, 31st August – 2nd September 2011.
Call for papers - Discussing the ‘doing’ of feminist and gender geographies
Organiser:- Imogen Wallace, Queen Mary University of London
Session sponsored by the WGSG (Women and Geography Study Group)
Contemporary methodological debates within geography have increasingly focused upon the recognition of research positions as multiple, flexible and fashioned through a process of interaction. Questions of emotion, embodiment and the performativity of place within research encounters are at the forefront of such discussions and reflection. The emphasis upon studying relational and emotional relationships to place raises particular methodological challenges, whereupon there has been a call to both develop new techniques and to adapt and enliven traditional methods in order to recognize and reflect upon the routine, emotional and embodied aspects of everyday social worlds, lives and interactions. Running alongside such debates has been a broader concern with the ethical implications of research and breadth of dissemination. Feminist approaches to methodology, power and the ethical dynamics of the research process have long been at the forefront of both initiating such debates and developing new research practices. Yet there has been relatively little critical reflection upon what impact these debates have had upon the realities of research practice. This aim of this session is to engage with new and emerging research by postgraduate and early career geographers whose research and working practices intersect with feminist geographies and methodologies.
The session aims to provide a supportive atmosphere which both facilitates debate and provides postgraduates and early career researchers with constructive feedback. Alternative presentations and departures from the standard paper format are welcomed. Presentations are encouraged on but not limited to the following themes:-
• Capturing sensory data
• Critical reflections on ‘feminist’ practices/research experiences
• Emotion and embodiment in research methodologies
• Positionality, power relations and ethics in the field
• Employing ‘new’ methods
• The politics of writing up
• Activism and dissemination
Please send abstracts to:- [log in to unmask] by 31st January
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