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RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2013: 28th – 30th August 2012, London, UK. Call for Papers: The Geographies of Second Homes? Organisers: Trudie Walters (University of Otago) and Tara Duncan (University of Otago) Abstract: In 1977 Coppock produced his ground-breaking Second Homes: Curse or Blessing? which brought together in one volume the collective knowledge of second home scholars around the world. In the early years of scholarship, the research focus was on describing the spatial distribution of second homes, and the demographics and motivations of owners. Since then, new directions have included investigating deeper, more nuanced understandings of the meanings associated with second home ownership, and addressing issues associated with mobility and social justice. In 2004 Hall and Muller brought together the controversial notions of elitism and egalitarianism in second homes in their edited volume Tourism, Mobility and Second Homes: Between Elite Landscape and Common Ground. In recent years second home research has also emerged from countries and regions hitherto invisible to the academic gaze. Even in countries where second homes are presented as an integral part of society, a normative experience, such as Norway, Finland and New Zealand, researchers are now questioning such representations of national identity. The potential to break new ground in second home research is therefore both exciting and diverse, and this session seeks to bring together new research into previously unstudied or understudied aspects of the geographies of second homes. We welcome paper submissions that address any of the following (and related) topics: - urban second homes - historical aspects of second homes and second home tourism - new trends in second home development - new second home landscapes - second home cultures - second homes and (in)equality - representations of second homes Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words Tara Duncan ([log in to unmask]) and Trudie Walters ([log in to unmask]) no later than Friday 8 February 2013. Thanks Tara Duncan Department of Tourism University of Otago Dunedin, New Zealand [log in to unmask]