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Dear All,
Please find below our CfP for the RGS-IBG 2024 Conference.
Please free to circulate it to anyone you think it will be of interest to! Thank you!
Warm Regards,
Adrian, Aireen, and Matej
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Mapping emotional geographies of children and young people (Call for papers)
Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Annual Conference 2024, London, 27th August-30th August 2024
Session Convenors: Adrian A. Khan (University of Toronto, Canada); Aireen Grace Andal (Macquarie University, Australia), Matej Blazek (Newcastle University, UK)
(Session sponsored by Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group)
In this session, we seek to reinvigorate the geographical focus on children, young people and emotions through the lens of mapping – in the sense of discovering, finding a way through, and fostering a new understanding of the world. Recognising the rich body of work in emotional geographies of children and young people from the past decade and before, we specifically invite contributions that challenge and advance established theoretical understandings, propose and develop new methodological perspectives, and identify underrecognized domains in which the entanglements of emotions and geographies shape children and young people’s lives.
These themes include, but are not limited to:
· Critical theoretical perspectives on children and young people’s emotional geographies, particularly those drawing on research and ideas that challenge Eurocentric concepts of both age-based discourses and emotions. We invite such theorisations to address themes including agency, space-making, play, happiness, fear, as well as their links with policy and professional practice in various contexts.
· Methodological approaches that help identify, examine and (re-present) entanglements of emotions and spatialities in children and young people’s lives. In particular, we invite approaches that consider technology, digital identities and representations, creativity, and ethical concerns in dealing with emotions in research with children and young people.
· Scholarship that locates emotional geographies in children and young people’s lives, particularly in the context of shifts, transitions and changes, including conflicts, health and biocrises, environmental challenges and technological advances. We are interested in explorations of emotions in children and young people’s lives in times of uncertainty and disaster, during life-course transitions, within the context of migration, mobility and displacement, and of environmental changes and children’s engagement with more-than-human environments.
The session will be organised as either HYBRID or ONLINE and we invite contributors who will attend the conference in person as well as those who take part remotely, preparing presentations of 15 minutes, with a cumulative Q&A session to follow.
Please email abstracts of not more than 200 words along with contact details of all contributors to Adrian ([log in to unmask]), Aireen ([log in to unmask]) AND Matej ([log in to unmask]) by Thursday 22nd February 2024. Please indicate whether you expect to present in person or remotely.
Statement on sustainability, inclusivity and accessibility: We are keen for contributions from authors across different career stages and especially different geographical and cultural backgrounds. To encourage participation in the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference from non-geographers based in the UK, and from either geographers or non-geographers overseas who may have difficulties in paying their registration fee, each Research Group is entitled to request complimentary registration totalling six days from the conference organisers. We are happy to share more information on this. The session will be organised in either hybrid or online format, thus allowing the participation of contributors and attendees who do not travel to London. Finally, all conference participants should make themselves familiar with, and adhere to, the conference Code of Conduct: https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/code-of-conduct/
Best Wishes,
Adrian, Aireen, and Matej
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