"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing" (Raymond Williams)

Recent Publications:

Anna R. Davies & Ruth Doyle (2015) Waterwise: Extending Civic Engagements for Co-creating more Sustainable Washing Futures, ACME: An international e-journal for critical geographies. 14(2):390-400 Free open access: http://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1167

Anna R. Davies & Ruth Doyle (2015) Transforming Household Consumption: From Backcasting to HomeLabs Experiments, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 105:2, 425-436. Free on-line access: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00045608.2014.1000948#abstract

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Anna R. Davies

Professor of Geography, Environment & Society

Director Environmental Governance Research Group

Department of Geography, School of Natural Sciences

Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin
Dublin 2, Ireland.

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Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin is ranked 1st in Ireland
and in the top 100 world universities by the QS World University Rankings.

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2nd CALL FOR SESSIONS FOR THE FOOD GEOGRAPHIES WORKING GROUP 

The Food Geographies Working Group (FGWG) invites proposals at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2016 being held at The Royal Geographical Society (with Institute if British Geographers) in London from Wednesday 31 August to Friday 2 September 2016. Professor Peter Jackson will chair the conference with the theme ‘Nexus Thinking’.

“The aim of nexus thinking is to address the interdependencies, tensions and trade-offs between different environmental and social domains – an approach to which geographers might feel an inherent attraction.  Rather than seeing energy, food and water resources as separate systems, for example, nexus thinking focuses on their interconnections, favouring an integrated approach that moves beyond national, sectoral, policy and disciplinary silos to identify more efficient, equitable and sustainable use of scarce resources.”

You can find out more at http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/Conference+theme.htm

In keeping with this theme we would particularly welcome sessions exploring:

-The power of nexus thinking in opening up debates on Food Security - Grassroots approaches to promoting Food Security –Challenging discourses on Food Security

-Food waste: a lens on systemic food issues - Boosting the message: Food Waste, celebrity chefs and visual culture

-Bringing Food Justice to the table –The role of Experiential Food Knowledge in promoting food access –The power of online networks in extending Global Food Voices and global food networks

-Exploring civil society-social science collaborations and their power to transform food knowledges –Social Food Movements as agents of change

- Policy and Praxis in seeding food change

However, we are also open to sessions that engage with food geographies more broadly. A summary of the group’s interests can be found here: https://foodgeographies.wordpress.com/about/

Sessions may take the form of presented papers, panels, practitioner forums, discussions or workshops. Innovative sessions and formats are encouraged.

 Proposals should include-

 (i) Title of session;

 (ii) Name of Co-sponsoring groups, if applicable

 (iii) Name and Contact Details for Session Convenors

 (iv) Abstract, outlining scope of session  - 200 words max.

 (v) Number of session timeslots that are sought - this year session may not normally occupy more than 2 time slots.

 (vi) Indication of preferred organisation of session, e.g. 4 x 20min presentation, plus 20min discussion or 5 x 15min presentation, with 5min question for each, we welcome creative formats. Sessions last 1 hour 40 mins.

 (vii) Indication of any non-standard arrangements, please note there will not be support for Skype or other forms of distance participation at AC2016. However, individual session organisers are welcome to incorporate presentations in this format into their sessions if they feel confident they can do so within the IT setup provided (all rooms will have laptop, projector, screen, speakers and internet connection).

 

The deadline for proposals is Friday 8^th January 2016. Proposals for, or questions about, FGWG sponsored sessions should be sent to Dr. Rebecca Sandover [log in to unmask]

 

 

Dr. Rebecca Sandover, 

 

Post-Doctoral Researcher of Food Networks and Social Movements

 

Secretary for FGWG (Food Geographies Working Group)

 

Conference Officer for SCGRG (Social and Cultural Geography Research Group)

https://twitter.com/#!/SandySom

 

https://exeter.academia.edu/RebeccaSandover

http://geography.exeter.ac.uk/index.html