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Call for papers for session at RGS-IBG 2016 *Housing is a verb: Exploring how mobile people dwell in multilocal / multitemporal home* Organizer: Lauren Wagner (Maastricht University) Taking housing as a verb (Turner 1972), this session will explore the vibrant materiality of making, inhabiting, and perpetuating a home – all together defined as dwelling, for short - as it can take place topologically across time and space. Participants are invited who are investigating how practices of construction, care, and maintenance, requiring individuals to invest their time and energy into housing, go hand in hand with accumulative layering and texturing of affective attachment that makes ‘home’. Papers in this session illustrate how this domestication of space (Koch and Latham 2013) is not necessarily fixed in place: it can be spatially dispersed, as in constructing a home at a distance, or maintaining homes in multiple places; it can be temporally skewed, by impending instability of ownership (il)legality, ever-extending completion dates, or expectations of physical impermanence; or it can involve patterns of repetition or iterative dwelling, creating stability through circular mobility. Each of these modes falls outside of a normative imagining of housing practice, taking place in a single structure, or single cartographical space, over linear time. These topological meshworks (DeLanda 2001; Ingold 2015) of dwelling, rather, illustrate how people house themselves across time or across space, maintaining some kind of stability through far-from-equilibrium dynamics. To investigate how dwelling works as a dynamic process, these papers analyse moments when such dynamics encounter a disruptive event. These events might range from sudden demolitions, to the slow onset of an impending foreclosure – both of which materially and affectively resonate within housing as a vital and active process. Please submit abstracts of max 250 words to Lauren Wagner ( [log in to unmask]) by *16 February 2016*. Please also indicate your willingness to participate in a session structured as 'Works in progress' or short interactive papers. http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/Call+for+sessions+papers+and+posters/Conference+session+formats.htm