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***CALL
FOR PAPERS***
Presenters
invited to join a panel for the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2008
‘Geographies that Matter’,
Panel
Theme: ‘Researching Sexualities’
Panel
Title: ‘Queering the Material: Reflections on
Researching the Material from Queer Perspectives’
Panel
Organisers/Presenters: Dr Sally Hines,
Abstract:
The place of material and
corporal structures within queer theory are central to the work of each of the
panel presenters. Moreover, each of the presenters has argued for the
importance of foregrounding the material in queer theories of gender and of
sexuality. In reflecting on the question ‘what matters?’ in
researching sexualities from a queer perspective, the presenters will draw on
their individual qualitative research projects to explore: firstly the ways in
which the material has been neglected within queer studies, secondly to
illustrate their own queer material ‘turn’ in researching
sexualities, and thirdly to argue for the centrality of the material in future
queer analyses.
To these
ends, Sally Hines’ paper, Embodying
Gender: Foregrounding the Gendered Body in Queer Analyses of Transgender
Sexualities, will address the ways in which queer analyses have
often disembodied sexuality and neglected the role of the gender in theorising
transgender, and will illustrate how, in her own research, she has sought to
foreground the gendered body in exploring trans sexualities. Yvette
Taylor’s paper, Complexities and Complications: Intersections of Class
and Sexuality, will address the lived experience of
‘intersectionality’ and the interface between the material,
embodied, spatial and subjective aspects of class and sexuality, even as these have been neglected in
dichotomised, dis-connected (materialist or
queer) positions. Mark Casey’s paper, will discuss the material realities
of socio-economic class and of the male body within travel experiences.
Presenters
whose work addresses the connections and disconnections, the tensions and
commonalities, between material and queer analyses of sexuality are invited to
join the panel. It is hoped that the proposed panel will develop future
dialogue and research networks around queer materialities
Panel
Format:
20 minute individual
papers with a Q & A/discussion session at the end of all presentations.
The panel aims to foster a productive discussion around the tensions and the
connections of queer and material analyses of sexuality.
Please send abstracts of
200 words to Sally Hines [log in to unmask]
by the 31st of January 2008