Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies
1-3 July 2013 at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Conference website: http://www.rug.nl/research/ursi/events/emospa/international-and-interdisciplinary-conference-on-emotional-geographies
Session:
Exploring the emotion of alternative communities: theorizing new forms of communal organisation
Convenors:
Helen Jarvis - Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Dallas Rogers - University of Western Sydney, Australia
Wendy Steele - Griffith University, Australia
Session abstract:
Although it is understood that social groups and other forms of communal organisation constitutes one of the ways individuals express a sense of self-identity and belonging, scholars have largely focused on the structural and political dimensions of this communal sense of self. Urban researchers in particular, informed by dominant materialist discourses within their disciplines, have been resistant to theorising communal organisation from the unique vantage point of the emotions and memory. By contrast, heritage, visual and digital scholars have been more open to theorizing communal experience and place attachment, often investigating the role of individual and collective memory in establishing and maintaining emotional bonds to people and place. In this session we seek to bring these different disciplines and discussions together.
We seek papers that bring together different theoretical perspectives, methodologies and disciplines to investigate the role of emotion and memory in theorising alternative communities. Defining 'alternative communities' in board terms, we encourage papers that theorise and explore the role of emotion and memory as a central and perhaps oft-ignored constituent of our understandings communal space and place experiences. Paper themes could include:
. Alternative housing settlements and notions of home;
. New digital and/or political communities;
. New social movements and governance in the city.
Papers could critically reflect on the relationships between our emotions, place and collective experience and show how human or more-than-human geographies relate to the building and maintenance of alternative communities.
Please send paper abstracts of 250-300 words to [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], and [log in to unmask] by January 7th 2013
Dr Helen Jarvis
Reader in Social Geography
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
Newcastle University
Daysh Building
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
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