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We welcome offers of papers or other contributions for the following session: "Emotions and politics 1: the importance of place" at the Royal Geographical Society./Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, London, August 28 - 31, 2007 Convenors: Rachel Pain (Durham University), Jo Little (Exeter University), Ruth Panelli (University College London), Sara Kindon (Victoria University of Wellington) This session has two aims: to explore the significance of emotions to the spaces of politics and political action, and to politicise emotional geographies. Recognition that emotions operating at a range of scales have an important role in how politics are played out has begun to influence every social science discipline, and geographers are making distinct contributions. Presenters will draw on discussions of emotions in geography and explore how this affects our reading of the spaces, places and scaling of politics. The session will consist of a selection of papers and viewpoints, which are wide ranging in subject matter and approaches to emotionality but share this common focus. Papers or other contributions might explore how fear, happiness, anger, hope, sadness, anxiety, passion and/or other emotions connect to and shape political relations, events, discourses, practices and actions. Issues of interest may include, but are not restricted to: * the spaces of emotional politics * globalisation, localisation and the scaling of emotions * geopolitics and emotional discourse * emotions and identity politics * conducting emotional geographies of politics and place * cartographies and other representations of emotions, politics and place Please email abstracts (max 200 words) to any of the convenors by 31st January 2007: Rachel Pain ([log in to unmask]) Jo Little ([log in to unmask]) Ruth Panelli ([log in to unmask]) Sara Kindon ([log in to unmask]) Dr Rachel Pain Department of Geography University of Durham Durham DH1 3LE England +44 (0)191 3341876 Social Well-Being and Spatial Justice research cluster http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/Clusters/Default.aspx?alias=www.geography .dur.ac.uk/clusters/swsj <http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/Clusters/Default.aspx?alias=www.geograph y.dur.ac.uk/clusters/swsj> Editor: ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies http://www.acme-journal.org <http://www.acme-journal.org/> Participatory Geographies Working Group http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/research/pygywebsite/ <http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/research/pygywebsite/>