Dear All
Please find below call for papers, with apologies for any cross-postings.
Regards
Louise
Papers are invited for a special themed session of the RGS/IBG Annual International Conference 2014, London 26 to 29 August
Sponsored by the Health Geography Research Group and the Participatory Geographies Research Group of the RGS/IBG
Co-production and transformation: power, knowledges, activism and social change in disability research
In response to calls for more empowering knowledges which reflect people’s lived experiences rather than reproducing medicalised discourses of disability tragedy, critical researchers exploring mind-body differences in space/place and time have an enduring tradition of developing participatory research practices (Kitchin, 2000). These research approaches endeavour to treat participants as equal partners, and prioritise the lived experiences of disabled people. Such attempts to promote empowering research present opportunities for a heightened involvement of disabled people as co—producers of knowledge, involved in many stages of the research, from co-defining agendas and research strategies to analyses and dissemination. This challenge reflects a broader move towards more participatory research practices in some strands of critical human geography. However, questions are raised, such as: what level of involvement is required for knowledge to be regarded as co-produced; how to avoid tokenism; who controls the research agendas; and, who are legitimate partners in research about mind-body difference and disability?
We therefore invite papers which more explicitly examine the co-production of research by geographers of disability, impairment and (ill-)health. Topics to be addressed could include, but are not limited to:
• What practically, is the co-production of knowledge and what stages of research should and can be co-produced?
• What are the new power-relations of co-production?
• Who can legitimately be involved as a co-producer of knowledge about disability and mind-body difference?
• Who bears the costs of research (time, financial etc.)?
• Is there a for an expert, and who are the experts?
• Who controls the research agenda?
• Knowledge co-production and theory.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to all conveners by Friday 14th February 2014
Ed Hall ([log in to unmask]); Louise Holt ([log in to unmask]); Jayne Jeffries ([log in to unmask])
This paper session is organised alongside a workshop involving co-producers of participatory disability research.
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