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Apologies for any cross-postings. From: DAWN BIEHLER <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: Discussion list for Feminism in Geography <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: CFP: Urban animal geographies Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 07:28:34 -0600 Call for Papers: Urban Animals 2004 Association for American Geographers Meetings 14-19 March Philadelphia, PA Organizers: Dawn Biehler, University of Wisconsin, Madison Jennifer Blecha, University of Minnesota Recent work in animal geographies has sought to account for the place of non-humans in the social and natural order. The purpose of these sessions is to engage this scholarship with an examination of the social, cultural, and political meanings of urban animals, as well as their material aspects. We plan to organize two related paper sessions, one focusing primarily on pets and the other on urban livestock. Regarding pets: The intimate relationships between humans and animal pets in cities, and the ways these animals participate in the fabric of urban life, may add new dimensions to geographers’ understandings of urban theory, the urban environment, and the body. Social categories including but not limited to race, class, gender, age, and ability mark relationships with domestic animals in the city, and vice versa. Furthermore, pets take part in broader urban conditions of poverty and wealth, order and chaos, and ecology. This session seeks papers that address human practices with companion animals, from the feral to the fierce to the lavishly pampered, in cities worldwide. Papers may address the role of urban pets in human social difference, nature-society relations, construction of place, health, urban development, or other urban issues. Regarding urban livestock: In spite of imagery to the contrary, livestock animals are a significant presence in many cities around the world. In many cities of the South, urban livestock provide significant proportions of city residents’ milk, egg and meat consumption. In the North, livestock animals in large numbers were ubiquitous in cities up into the 20th century. Even now, a significant number of urban dwellers keep these animals for food, tradition or enjoyment. This session seeks papers on urban livestock past and present, in the South and North, kept for subsistence or hobby. Papers may address legal and land-use issues, human-animal relationships, cultural conflicts, notions of urban and rural, developmentalism and community organizing, or other issues around urban livestock raising, practices, slaughter, consumption, rights, or agency. Please contact Dawn ([log in to unmask]) or Jennifer ([log in to unmask]) with questions or interest. Please submit abstracts by September 20th. **** Karen Dias PhD Student University of Minnesota [log in to unmask] Co-editor, thirdspace http://www.thirdspace.ca _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail