**Apologies for cross-posting: call for papers, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference, London, 26th-29th August 2014**
Title: Children, young people and spaces/practices of care
Sponsored by: Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group and Geographies of Health Research Group
Session convenors: Michelle Pyer and John Horton (both The University of Northampton, UK)
Abstract:
These sessions will focus upon the practices and experiences of children and young people as carers, as cared for, and in relation to spaces/institutions of care. We welcome proposals for empirical and conceptual papers (15 minutes duration) in two thematic areas.
•For the first session, we call for papers about children and young people as carers or recipients of care, in diverse contexts. We anticipate that this will include reflection upon a wide range of ‘formal’ or ‘informal’ caring practices/roles, in recognition of the geographic, historical and situational contingency of notions of ‘care’. We particularly welcome papers which reflect upon the impacts of contemporary political-economic contexts upon everyday practices of caring / being cared for.
•For the second session, we call for papers which have a substantial focus upon children and young people in, or in relation to, diverse formal spaces or institutions of care. This might include consideration of children and young people’s presence in, and relationships to, spaces such as hospitals, spaces of residential/domiciliary care, spaces of respite care or refuge, day care spaces, youth/social work contexts, spaces of medical care, therapeutic or counselling contexts, spaces of convalescence, palliative care contexts, or sites of crisis/emergency care.
The sessions seek to connect researchers and practitioners working in a number of related (but often, in practice, somewhat disparate) contexts. In particular, we welcome proposals for contributions which cut across some of the following lines of work:
• Children’s geographies – particularly in relation to care, friendship, family and community;
• Geographies of age, intersectionality and intergenerational relations;
• Geographies of disability, illness and impairment;
• Research on/in spaces or institutions of care;
• Research/practice with (formally or informally defined) carers;
• Conceptualisations of care, caring practices, caring relationships and spaces of/for care;
• Research about children and young people’s relationships to ‘caring professions’;
• Practice within public, voluntary or third sector organisations in relation to children and young people as carers or recipients of care.
In a spirit of co-production, both sessions will include a substantial commitment to collaborative and extended discussion.
Please submit abstracts of up to 250 words to Michelle Pyer ([log in to unmask]) and John Horton ([log in to unmask]) by Friday, 7th February 2014.
Further information about the conference is available at: http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/Annual+international+conference.htm
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