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CFP Geographies of prejudice: understanding contemporary forms of discrimination Session organisers: Gill Valentine, Catherine Harris, Aneta Piekut, and Anna Gawlewicz (University of Sheffield) We are currently witnessing unprecedented levels of mobility and population change. In this context, it is argued that how we develop the capacity to live with difference is the key issue of the 21st century (Hall, 1993). As such, Individuals are increasingly likely to encounter ‘others’ and are therefore required to negotiate discontinuities and contradictions between the values that are transmitted through different sites. This can lead to the formation of prejudiced attitudes and behaviours. Yet despite the persistence of equality legislation in western societies, prejudice is a term that is not widely employed in geography because of its association with a particular history of meaning within social psychology (Valentine, 2010). Indeed, Gordon Allport’s (1954) seminal book, The Nature of Prejudice, remains the basis for much contemporary theorising on prejudice. In response, this session seeks to bring together work concerned with the geographies of prejudice, discrimination and questions of living with difference (Valentine, 2008). The session will address methodological, theoretical and empirical ways in which studies of prejudice and discrimination can engage with debates concerning different equality strands. These include social class, race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, sexual orientation and (dis)ability. We welcome topics that might include (but are not limited to) theoretical, empirical and methodological engagements with: • Definitions, understandings, forms and measures of prejudice • How prejudice is articulated: the language, behaviour and legitimisation of prejudice • Experiences of discrimination or exclusion • How social diversity is related to prejudice • The effects of prejudice and discrimination • Transmission/transfer of prejudice • The sites where prejudice and discrimination develop • The scales of prejudice: group and individual prejudice • The privatisation of prejudice • The strategies used by societies to deal with prejudice and discrimination • Researching prejudice and intergroup contact in the context of ‘lived diversity’ • Effects of diversity on reducing prejudice (statistical approach) • The policy implications of prejudice Please send proposed titles and abstracts (250 words max.) to Catherine Harris ([log in to unmask]) by Friday 11th October. References: Allport, G.W. (1954) The Nature of Prejudice. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Hall, S. (1993) Culture, community, nation. Cultural Studies, 7, 349–63 Valentine, G. (2008) Living with difference: reflections on geographies of encounter. Progress in Human Geography, 32 (3) 323-337 Valentine, G. (2010) Prejudice: rethinking geographies of oppression, Social and Cultural Geography. 11 (6) 519-537