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First call for papers for a session at the ISA in Sao Paulo: August 23rd-25th, 2009 International Sociological Association - Research Committee 21: Sociology of Urban and Regional Development: Inequality, Inclusion and the Sense of Belonging SESSION: Inequality, Inclusion and the Sense of Belonging Convenors: Susan Buckingham & Monica Degen, Brunel University - UK Embodied Experiences and Civic In/Exclusion in the City Cities make bodies and bodies make cities. In this session we suggest to focus on the relationship between embodied experiences, marginalisation and civic in/exclusion in urban environments. Embodied experiences have been widely studied in the field of disability studies (for example Butler & Parr 1999; Imrie 2001) or theorised in relation to urban life (Sennett 1994; Sibley 1995; Amin & Thrift 2002; Knowles 2003). We would like to expand this work by focusing on the variety of ways in which corporeal experience of social in/exclusion in cities is articulated through the connections between embodiment, subjectivity and spatial and material practices. We are therefore looking for papers that explore the multiple and sometimes conflicting territories of the embodied self in relation to feelings of exclusion from society, thereby adding to a practical understanding of processes of civic identity which are entangled in the body, and so, map the 'social consequentiality of the body's materiality' (Shilling 2007). Abstracts accepted until May 15th 2009, details from: http://www.centrodametropole.org.br/ISA2009/index.html. Professor Susan Buckingham Director, Centre for Human Geography and Deputy Head, Research, School of Sport and Education Brunel University Uxbridge, UB8 3PH UK Tel: 01895 266090 (direct) http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sse/chg/people/susan_buckingham Equal Opportunities Champion, Brunel University Trustee, Womens Environmental Network www.wen.org.uk;