Dear all, apologies for the first email as the attachment did not come through properly. Please find below the call for papers for our session titled 'Relational Masculinities'.
Thank you.
Call for papers
AAG Annual Conference, 24-28th February 2012, New York
Relational masculinities: embodiment, homespaces and the family
Peter Hopkins and Michael Richardson
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, UK
The last ten years has seen geographers give increasing attention to the spatialities associated with men, masculinities and the performance of masculine identities (Berg and Longhurst, 2003, McDowell, 2003, van Hoven and Horschelmann, 2005). Although this work has contributed much to advancing understandings of masculinities in different places, such scholarship remains somewhat marginalised in a much larger field of research about gender within human geography that tends to focus on women’s expeirences. As Hopkins and Noble (2009: 815) observe, ‘there is much work about femininity, female identities and women, with far less scholarship about masculinities, male identities and men’. In this session, we provide a forum to explore emerging debates about the geographies of men and masculinities. Focusing specifically upon relational masculinities, we are interested in papers that draw attention to processes of embodiment, experiences of home and accounts of family interactions and relationships.
We welcome contributions from researchers (including postgraduate and early career scholars and established academics) working in any field of human geography and in particular those working in social, cultural and feminist geographies. Papers could consider – but are by no means limited to – some of the following themes:
· Body image/size and masculinities
· Ethnicised and racialised masculinities
· The interplay between sexuality and masculinities
· Youthful masculinities
· Masculinities and intergenerational relations
· Domestic masculinities, parenting and the family
· Men and masculinities at work
· Masculinities and emotional geographies
· Masculinities and the ageing body
Please submit a 200 word abstract by 5th September 2011 to Peter Hopkins ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Michael Richardson ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>).
Michael Richardson
PhD Student
GEO 1096 Tutor
GEO 3105 Teaching Assistant
School of Geography, Politics & Sociology
Newcastle University
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