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CALL FOR PAPERS - RGS/IBG ANNUAL
CONFERENCE BRIGHTON 2000
EUROPE: GENDERED BOUNDARIES, GENDERED SPACES
Proposals for papers are invited for a day long session at the RGS/IBG
2000 Conference at the University of Sussex, UK (January 4-7 2000) on
Europe: Gendered Boundaries, Gendered Spaces. The session is
sponsored and organised by the Women and Geography Study Group (WGSG
).
The session aims to bring together work from a range of perspectives
on the diverse linkages between gender and geography in relation to
Europe in a setting which will encourage wider debate on these themes.
We hope to be able to include papers which suggest the active
negotiation and contestation of these processes by women and men
across Europe. In particular we welcome papers which address the
themes listed below:
1. Living in Post-Communist Europe: since the collapse of state
socialism the lives of people in these countries have been
transformed, and, particularly for many women, this has not been for
the better. Female unemployment rates in most post-Communist
countries are higher than those for men, childcare facilities are
being denuded, birth control remains limited and expensive, sex
workers are increasing in numbers, the lives of minority women such as
gypsies have been especially hard, and migration flows to the European
Union are increasing. How are gender identities and gender relations
associated with, reworked by or challenged by such processes at the
local, regional, national or cross-national scale? How do they
intersect with divisions around 'race', ethnicity, class or age? 2.
Gendered Lives in the European Union: over the last two decades female
participation rates have increased in all EU member states, including
southern Europe, but so have unemployment rates. What are the changing
ways in which the gendered spaces and practices of 'home' and 'work'
intertwine in the lives of women and men in the EU today? What have
been the gendered outcomes of the Single European Market in the lives
of the citizens of the EU across different regions and states, and in
rural and urban areas? How have women and men differentially
negotiated the 'free right of circulation' within the EU migratory
space? 3. Gender, Migrants and 'Fortress Europe': to what extent is
migration into the EU structured by gendered processes? How are the
spaces of inclusion and exclusion created by the Single European
Market and policies around immigration gendered? While some women
managers and professionals may form part of the 'club class' of the
internationally mobile migrating to (and indeed within) the EU, how do
these flows intersect with wider economic, political, cultural or
social processes? What are the positions of women and men in the flows
of refugees and asylum seekers into the EU? What are the lived
realities for them in 'Fortress Europe' and how do these experiences
challenge, disrupt or reinforce existing gender relations and gender
identities? 4. Gender and Conflict in Europe: how are gender relations
and gender identities implicated in recent and on-going conflicts
within Europe? What are the masculinities and femininities associated
with ethnic and nationalist struggles? How have experiences of
violence affected women and men in their attachment to place, in the
processes of displacement, or in the (often enforced) creation of new
territories and boundaries?
We are particularly keen to encourage contributions from a wide range
of perspectives, including participants from other European countries,
and from post-graduate and other researchers.
Offers of papers - including a title, an abstract of up to 200 words,
and the names, contact addresses and e-mails of author (s) - should be
sent to the session convenors (contact details are at the end of this
e-mail message) by 15th June 1999. An e-mail attachment in word
format is preferred (hard copy should be accompanied by a disk
version).
Convenors:
Dr Irene Hardill
Department of International Studies
The Nottingham Trent University
Clifton Lane
Nottingham NG11 8NS
UK
Tel: +44 (0)115 9483305
Fax: +44 (0)115 9486385
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Dr Fiona M. Smith
Department of Geography
University of Dundee
Dundee DD1 4HN
UK
Tel: +44 (0)1382 344424
Fax: +44 (0)1382 344434
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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