Call for Papers:

Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Conference, April 14-18, 2010, Washington D.C.

 

Paper Session: “Gender and Climate Change – Pitfalls, Possibilities and Realities”

 

Organizers: Farhana Sultana (Syracuse University) and Joni Seager (Bentley University)

 

Sponsored by: Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group (CAPE), Development Geographies Specialty Group (DGSG), Geographical Perspectives on Women Specialty Group (GPOW)

 

Climate change has become a topic of much debate in policy and academic writing. However, the gendered nature of climate change is less studied. Geographers are uniquely situated to engage with the ways that nature-society relations are differentiated along gender lines, bringing fresh perspectives and critical lenses to the ways that climate change impacts and adaptation efforts are understood, experienced and acted up differently across axes of social differentiation, sites and scales. A gender perspective can thus provide insights to enrich existing debates, demonstrating the ways that drivers of climate change, vulnerability, resiliency, adaptation, policy-making, and decision-making are all bound up with various constructions of gender and difference, which have important outcomes in the ways that climate changes come to affect people and places. This session seeks to engender climate change debates and bring critical geography perspectives into conversation with the dominant narratives around climate change, related impacts, mitigation, and adaptation. Papers are invited that engage with such concerns.

 

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to both organizers by 15 October 2009. Please email the title and abstract of your paper to Farhana Sultana ([log in to unmask]) and Joni Seager ([log in to unmask]).

 

Please note that there is no funding to assist attendance to the AAG conference. For more information on the AAG conference, please visit http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2010/papers.htm

 

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Farhana Sultana, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Geography

The Maxwell School of Syracuse University

144 Eggers Hall, Syracuse, NY, 13244

Email: [log in to unmask]; Phone: 1-315-443-5633

Website: http://www1.maxwell.syr.edu/faculty/sultana.aspx

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