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| Subject: | BSA Ageing, Body and Society Conference - Bodywork in Health and Social Care - Call for Papers |
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| Date: | 27 May 2011 17:49:41 +0100 |
| From: | BSA Events Team <[log in to unmask]> |
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Call
for Papers
BSA
Ageing Body and Society Study Group Conference Body Work in
Health and Social Care
British
Library Conference Centre,
Tuesday
6th September 2011
Keynote
Speaker:
Professor
Sharon Kaufman, Professor of Medical Anthropology,
This day conference seeks to extend and
deepen interest in the concept of ‘body work’ – understood here
as work focusing on the bodies of others, typically undertaken in
a paid context. As such it is a component in a range of
occupations in health and social care, and beyond. We invite abstracts for papers that address
the relevance of ‘body work’ to the sociology of health, illness
and care, and to policy debates in these areas. Research on body
work and ageing, including the experience of both providers and
recipients of body work, is particularly welcome. We are also
keen to include papers that draw comparisons with other areas of
work such as personal services like hairdressing or sex work.
Papers addressing methodological issues in studying body work
(including, for instance, ethical questions, or the use of
visual representations) are also welcome.
· Topics of interest include: the
transformation and discipline of the body through health, care,
and death work
· the role of gender, class and racialisation
on constructions of body work and body work interactions
· the temporal and spatial organization of
body work
· recruitment and training for body work and
the embodied practitioner
· emotion, touch and reflexivity
· power, intimacy, and vulnerability
· dirty work and abjection
· formal and informal resistance by
practitioners or patients or clients.
· the political economy of body work
provision and its transformation over time
Abstracts for papers and posters:
max 250 words should be submitted by 27 June 2011 online
at www.britsoc.co.uk/events/ageing.
Acceptance confirmation by 12 July. Programme online from 22
July.
The Conference is organised by the BSA
Ageing, Body and Society Study Group and supported by the
Sociology of Health and Illness Foundation. It marks the
publication of the recent Special Issue of Sociology
of Health and Illness and the forthcoming monograph Body Work in Health and Social Care. see (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/shil.2011.33.issue-2/issuetoc).
Co-ordinators: Professor Julia Twigg (
Registration: £45 BSA members, £85
non-members, £35 postgraduates. Fee includes buffet lunch,
refreshments and wine reception in the early evening. Online
registration at www.britsoc.co.uk/events/ageing.
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