CfP - Geographies of Skills and Skill Formation: Attending to Place, Experience and Networks of Power
Panel proposal for the RGS-IBG Conference 2022, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Panel convenors: Trent Brown (University of Melbourne); Aditya Ray (Queen Mary University of London)
*Apologies for cross-posting*
Deadline for abstracts 18th March 2022
In recent years, policymakers have positioned skills as the key solution to a range of social and economic challenges: from the covid recovery, to sustainable transitions, to futures of work, and a host of development issues. Most of this public discourse tends to take skills as technical competencies required for enhanced job prospects and task performance, to be imparted through formal training. Several recent interventions in human geography and related social sciences have challenged this view. Coming from a range of theoretical angles (from political economy and regional studies, ‘communities of practice’ theories, Heideggerian and Deleuzian approaches, through to Ingold’s ‘ecological’ perspectives) these interventions have sought to delve deeper into what skills are and what they do by situating them within their socio-cultural, ontological, and ecological contexts. Emerging from this is a view that skills are not merely technical capabilities, but at their core, are personal, social, and culturally meaningful activities, intimately felt, lived, learned and transferred in a given context, that play important roles in the constitution, reproduction, and transformation of social worlds. Importantly, many of these studies also explore how the social relations and networks within the local environments within which skills are assembled are marked by socio-historical legacies and inequities, which shape the meanings attributed to skills, how they are put to use, and by whom.
This panel seeks to bring together scholars working on skills from a variety of theoretical perspectives and using diverse empirical materials. We seek to widen perspectives on what skills are and challenge narrow, technical understandings of skills. We welcome theoretical interventions, in-depth empirical analysis of skilled practices of various forms, and critical studies of contemporary public discourse on skills.
Send abstracts (or queries) to Aditya Ray ([log in to unmask]) and/or Trent Brown ([log in to unmask]) by Friday, the 18th of March 2022.
Please include:
・ A title for your presentation;
・ An abstract of max 200 words;
・ Your name, affiliation and contact details (email address).
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