Dear All,
Hope you are well.
I am writing to confirm an extension for submission of abstracts to my RGS-IBG session entitled 'Feminist Geographies of Leave and Leaving' (see below).
Abstracts to be emailed to me by 25th March 2022 4pm.
Any questions please get in touch
Best wishes
Rachel
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Feminist Geographies of Leave and Leaving
Organiser: Rachel Colls Durham University RGS-IBG Conference Newcastle 30 August - 2 September 2022
This session provides an opportunity to bring together feminist geographical inspired research and reflections about/upon the notions of 'leave' and 'leaving'. Integral to a sense of leaving a person/people, place, a life, or a discipline, or being left behind, left out/side is an awareness of how leaving is felt, embodied, and located 'somewhere'. Moreover, discourses, practices and experiences of leave and leaving are both explicitly and implicitly present in a range of intra-disciplinary research in ways which indicate the conceptual power and potential of leave and leaving to augment our feminist understandings of space, time, and power relations.
Papers are sought to allow an exploration of the breadth of this potential and in formats which develop conceptual, empirical, and/or personal accounts of leave and leaving. For example, papers might consider the emotional and affectual experiences and consequences of leaving a violent relationship or a country during war or a position in academia that becomes unsustainable or unavailable to individuals. In what ways is leaving enforced, perhaps through notions of escape, withdrawal, and isolation. What does it mean and feel like to be 'left behind'; how is this process 'gendered'; and where does this take place?
In addition, papers could consider the temporalities and spatialities of leave and leaving. For example, how are different kinds of 'leave' governed or provided and for those taking periods of paid or unpaid leave from what, where or whom is 'left' or suspended within this set period. Where does 'leaving' happen and how 'long' does it take? Do we ever fully 'leave' a person, place or circumstance? Finally, papers could consider whom or what is left (behind) within different spatial contexts. For example, the 'failing' region in need of 'levelling up'; the fluids, organs and materials that leave a bounded body; or the families supported financially through migrant remittance payments.
Topics of interest may include, but are not restricted to:
Theorising leave and leaving
Temporalities of leave and leaving
Leaving home
Leaving relationships
Migration and leaving/being left behind
Leaving academia or 'the discipline'
Experiences of different 'kinds of leave' e.g., parental, sick, adoption, pregnancy loss etc Left behind things and objects Body parts and materials
Please send abstracts of maximum 250 words to Rachel ([log in to unmask]) by 25th March 4pm. Please get in touch if you have any questions about the cfp and your ideas for a contribution. Papers that draw on personal experiences or are based on artistic and non-conventional means of presentation are welcome.
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