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Call for Papers, Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, Boston, MA April 15-19, 2008 Critical Geographies of Participatory Development in Transitional 'Post'-Conflict Environments Organizers: Daanish Mustafa, Department of Geography, King's College London Jennifer McCarthy, Department of Geography, King's College London This paper session explores participatory development as a critical geography and analyzes how development and post-conflict environments interact within the socially constructed spaces of participation. The session will address complexities in and among issues of power relations, power structures, shifting local governance, conceptions of civil society, citizen identity, and gender in an attempt to link these issues to practical development realities including (but not limited to) land ownership, human rights, political representation, rural infrastructure development and livelihoods. This call is seeking papers which articulate the complexities of practicing participatory development in environments that are post- conflict but that have not fully moved into a 'post'-conflict mode. We also invite papers which address human ?beneficiary? engagement with participation and highlight the intricacies of post-conflict development as experienced by target populations, potentially theorizing the concrete and drawing out the critical geographies of participation in order to expand upon and enhance applications of participatory development. Please send a title, abstract of no more than 250 words and conference registration PIN number by October 30th to Jennifer McCarthy: [log in to unmask]