(Apologies
for cross postings)
Connecting
People, Participation and Place
An international
conference of participatory geographies
14th
and 15th January 2008
Organised by the Social
Well-Being and Spatial Justice research cluster at
and
the Participatory
Geographies Working Group of the RGS/IBG
First
announcement
Confirmed speakers:
Sara Kindon (Victoria University of Wellington) - keynote
Caitlin Cahill (
Gaby Kitoko (African Community Advice North East)
Giles Mohan (Open University)
Babette Resureccion (Asian Institute of Technology)
Jasber Singh (Independent participatory researcher,
Participatory approaches to research, learning, action and change have in
some ways become a new orthodoxy in social and environmental science
disciplines, voluntary sectors, statutory agencies and community-led
organisations across the world. The development of conceptual insights,
creative techniques and radical practices is exploding. At the same time participatory
approaches are highly contested and debated, and are profoundly affected by environments,
settings and institutional webs they occupy.
This conference will showcase original and collaboratively produced
contributions to theory, practice and social change which focus on the
relations between people and places. The themes are
The conference will coincide with the publication of a Routledge text
of the same name (eds Sara Kindon, Rachel Pain and Mike Kesby).
The conference aims to:
A small fee will be payable to cover registration, tea, coffee and
lunch over the two days. The conference will be held in the 1000 year old
Castle in the heart of beautiful and historic
A
full call for papers and registration details will be circulated in May 2007.
Enquiries and suggestions at this stage to [log in to unmask].
Conference website http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/Conf/Default.aspx?alias=www.geography.dur.ac.uk/conf/cppp
Organising committee:
Catherine Alexander, Kye Askins, Natalie Beale, Caitlin Cahill, Paul
Chatterton, Christine Dunn, Duncan Fuller, Peter Hopkins, Roy Huijsmans, Kathrin
Horschelmann, Sara Kindon, Sara McKian, Julia McMillan, Rachel Pain, Jonathan
Rigg,
Dr Rachel Pain
Department of Geography
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
Editor: ACME: An International
E-Journal for Critical Geographies
http://www.acme-journal.org
Participatory Geographies Working
Group
http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/research/pygywebsite/