Gender and Justice: Everyday Frontiers
Call for Papers: Royal Geographical Society with IBG Annual Conference London, 28th-30th August 2013
Convenors: Sally Lloyd-Evans (University of Reading) and Rachel Pain (Durham University) (Co-sponsored by the Geographies of Justice Group and the Women and Geography Study Group)
Building on last year’s session on ‘Gender, justice and security’, which sought to understand issues of justice and security affecting women and men experienced across a range of sites and scales, this year’s session continues to focus upon uncovering everyday forms and outcomes of injustice that tend to be hidden in societies across the globe. Embracing the conference theme of ‘new geographical frontiers’, the session also aims to provide a discursive space for exploring feminist geographers’ contributions to advancing social justice outcomes and engendering social change through activism and advocacy across shifting geographical, political and spatial frontiers. Focusing on the hidden face of gender injustice and other axes of discrimination, including ethnicity, religion, sexuality, disability or class, the session provides an opportunity for geographers to critically engage with issues that are often circumvented in mainstream public discussion and academic debates. It will also provide a forum for discussing the opportunities, tensions and innovations that arise from feminist researchers’ engagement in policy, activism and other forms of praxis on these issues: what are the implications for ‘public geographies’ of private injustice, and vice versa?
As such, we welcome papers from both the global North and South which seek to explore how everyday and often unseen geographies of justice are understood, interpreted and played out at a range of spatial scales and across diverse social, cultural, economic and political landscapes. Issues might include, for example, violence and security,; employment; education; housing; reproduction and health; migration; legal rights, political representation and the criminal justice system; family life and the home; youth and children; global development; environmental justice. Contributions are welcome that develop theoretical or methodological understandings, empirical examples, debates around policy, activism and advocacy, or a combination of these.
Please email questions about the session, or send abstracts (approx 250 words) to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by Friday 1st February 2013.
Rachel Pain
Department of Geography
University of Durham
Durham DH1 3LE
England
tel. +44 (0)191 3341876
website: www.dur.ac.uk/geography/research/researchclusters/?mode=staff&id=352
Everyday Terrorism: http://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/geography/downloads/EverydayTerrorism.pdf
twitter: @everydayterror
Co-Director, Centre for Social Justice and Community Action www.dur.ac.uk/beacon/socialjustice/
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