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Call for Papers Association of American Geographers 2008 Annual Conference, Boston, April 15-19 Mainstreaming young people's geographies Catherine Alexander (University of Durham, UK) and Peter Hopkins (Newcastle University, UK) The session aims to explore the place(s) of young people's geographies within the discipline, and the relationships between youth geographies and other sub-fields of human geography. We encourage contributions that reassert the importance of rethinking and unpacking the category 'youth' and 'young people's geographies’ in general (for example, Wyn & White 1997); that seek to conceptualise youth geographies in a range of diverse ways; (for example, Daiute & Fine 2003), and that show the multiplicity of young people’s perspectives and experiences. The session aims to mainstream the value of young people and young people's geographies within human geography generally and the ways in which variabilities based on age, ethnicity, social status, gender and ability contribute towards a more comparative understanding of the diversity of what it means, and what it is like, to be ‘young’ in different cultural contexts. Papers may focus on a variety of themes, including (but not limited to): - the (re)placing of young people within geography - the relationships between 'children's geographies', 'youth geographies and the discipline as a whole - theoretical approaches in young people's geographies - methods and methodological issues in researching young people's geographies - ways in which young people's geographies may be more fully integrated into human geography - key contributions of young people's geographies to other sub-fields of the discipline (e.g. social geographies, economic geographies, development studies, political geographies) and vice versa. - the participatory potential for young people to help shape and create future trends in the discipline Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Catherine Alexander ([log in to unmask]) by 30 September 2007