Call for Papers: Nordic Geographers Meeting 2017

The Nordic Geographers Meeting (NGM) is an international geography conference organized every second year. The 7th Meeting will be in Stockholm, Sweden, June 18th–21st 2017 where the conference theme is “Geographies of inequalities”. The conference is always well organised and the atmosphere friendly and supportive. With several sessions being organised on various aspects of geographies of children and youth, the conference is likely to be of interest to many recipients of this email. One such session is:

Youth and inequality: perceptions, experiences and aspirations

Rising unemployment and sluggish economic growth are widely predicted to further widen income and wealth inequality worldwide. Young people in particular are being disproportionately affected with the OECD claiming that youth have replaced the elderly as the group experiencing the greatest risk of income poverty. This has widespread implications for the opportunities and constraints young people face as well as impacting on their aspirations for the future.

This session will bring together papers which explore how young people’s lives and aspirations are being influenced by the inequality they experience and imagine both in situ and in far-away places. Papers are welcome from societies across the globe where young people are being affected by real or perceived high levels of inequality. Topics which may be explored in the session include, but are not restricted to, the implications of rising inequality at a range of scales for young people’ perceptions, experiences and aspirations of:

· Mobility and immobility

· Education and skills training

· Work experiences and job prospects

· Housing and home

Conveners:         Prof Katherine Gough, Department of Geography, Loughborough University, UK

Dr Thilde Langevang, Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Please submit proposed paper abstracts to [log in to unmask] by 15.12.16. Abstracts should have a maximum length of 250 words, in plain text, and be saved in Word format. Please adhere to the following format:

• Name of the session
• Title of the paper (lowercase letters)
• Author’s name and e-mail
• Author’s institutional affiliation
• Body of the paper abstract

In accordance with the conference organisers’ instructions, the selection of papers will be made by the session conveners. Paper authors will be notified by 15 January and accepted abstracts will then be published on the conference webpage.

For more details on the conference see: http://www.humangeo.su.se/english/ngm-2017

Best wishes

Kate and Thilde