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*Apologies for cross postings* RGS-IBG Annual Conference 31st Aug - 2nd Sept 2011 Call For Papers - Rural Mobilities: Engaging with Rurality (Whilst) On the Move Session sponsored by the Rural Geography Research Group. Organisers - Keri Jenner (University of Exeter) and Rosie Emeny (University of Sheffield). Mobility studies have proliferated in the last decade, and although developed predominantly outside of the geographic discipline, geographers have recently found great purchase in theorising mobile encounters with space through the mobilities literature. As a concept, mobility offers a way to conceptualise movements within space: this session aims to explore research engaging with movements in rural contexts. Thus what are the movements happening in rural areas? How are these rural mobilities framed, negotiated, imagined and materialised? What's more as researchers how can we empirically engage with mobile ruralities as they emerge, are produced, are reflected in representation and are reproduced though non-representational practices? How are intersections of the human and non-human integral in the performance of rural mobilities? And crucially, (how) is it possible to engage with specific mobile practices in such a way that their essences and meanings are not lost through subsequent analysis and dissemination? By focusing on rural mobilities the session intends to bring together researchers working on both imaginative and practised rural mobilities to generate debate and critique through papers which consider, for example, movements of self, communities and concepts in relation to rural spaces, places and theorisations. We invite papers that are conceptual, methodological and empirical. Furthermore, given the broad scope of what ‘mobilities’ represents, it is hoped that this session will provide an opportunity for critical discussion to develop across the various strands of geographical work interconnected with this theme. Papers could address one or more of the following themes: •The mobility of rural discourse •Moving in and through in rural spaces; e.g. walking, driving, canoeing, cycling etc •Migrating to, from and within in rural spaces •Travelling in rural spaces; touristic engagements, mundane movements, leisure mobilities •Reflections on the technologies and materialities of mobilities •Negotiating the human and/or the non-human dimensions of rural mobilities •Researching rural mobilities – methodological insights •Geographic scale and rural mobilities Following the conference outline, the session organisers want to encourage submissions for creative and innovative paper formats. In the spirit of mobility, we would welcome papers that think beyond the confines of the paper-presentation convention and instead engage creatively with the session audience – either through movement, sound, audio-visual technologies, dance or any other creative suggestions welcome – papers of pictures, papers of sounds, papers of film et al. We are particularly interested in abstract submissions that might engage the session audience as participants in the dissemination of work within this theme too. We welcome all forms of paper submissions; conventional or otherwise. Deadline - Please send titles, abstracts (up to a maximum of 250 words), contact details (name, institution and email address) to both Keri Jenner ([log in to unmask] ) and Rosie Emeny ([log in to unmask]) by Friday 11th February 2011. ____________________________________________________ Rosie Emeny Doctoral Candidate University of Sheffield A: D5, Department of Geography The University of Sheffield Winter Street,Sheffield, S10 2TN E: [log in to unmask] W: http://www.shef.ac.uk/geography/students/pg/rosieemeny.html