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Dear all, Please find below the second call for papers for the RGS-IBG 2018 session "Towards vitalist geographies of health and care". If you are interested in submitting a paper or would like to discuss your ideas, please feel free to drop us a message in advance of the deadline. ________________________________ **Apologies for cross-posting** Call for papers: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Cardiff University, 28-31 August 2018 Towards vitalist geographies of health and care Sponsored by the Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group (GHWRG) Session organisers: Rich Gorman (Exeter University), Phil Emmerson (University of Birmingham) and Diana Beljaars (Cardiff University) Geographers have done much to explore how notions (and practices) of health and care are (re)shaped through relations between people and place (in all its variegated complexity). More recently, geographers with a broad interest in health and care have been turning to 'vitalist' ontologies as a way of exploring, highlighting and to some respects, rethinking the multiplicity of ways in which '(ill)health' manifests, presents, feels, and is or isn't cared for (Philo, 2007; Duff, 2010; Gorman, 2017; Emmerson, 2017; Andrews, 2018; Beljaars & Anderson, forthcoming). This engagement with new materialist thought, non-representational theories, Actor Network Theories, Science and Technology Studies and post-phenomenologist stances is resulting in a shift in focus for work within health geography, with scholars increasingly attending to affective relations, lively matter, and unstable assemblages, reconfiguring bodies and spaces. Within this session we are interested in work that moves beyond static biomedical representations of health and instead engages with the lived and immediate aspects of health and care across a variety of contexts. We invite work that captures the more-than-representational experiences, the shared liveliness of humans and non-humans, the materiality of lived, felt, and dwelt knowledges of (ill)health, as well as the ecologies of care and more than human ethics of care (e.g. Puig de la Bellacasa, 2017). We are keen for papers that engage with the broad variety of approaches which might be considered as 'vitalist', and demonstrate (either empirically or theoretically) the advantages and limitations that such ontologies can bring to contemporary geographical understandings of health and care. Please send your abstracts of no more than 300 words to Rich Gorman ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>), Phil Emmerson ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Diana Beljaars ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by the 1st of February 2018. References: Andrews, G. 2018. Health and place. In: T. Brown, G.J. Andrews, S. Cummins, B. Greenhough, D. Lewis, A. Power (Eds.), Health Geographies: a Critical Introduction, Wiley Blackwell, Hoboken Beljaars, D. & Anderson, J. (forthcoming) Tourette syndrome through the eye of the beholder GeoHumanities Special Issue 'Medical-Health-Humanities: New Spaces of Theory and Practice' Duff, C. 2010. Towards a developmental ethology: Exploring Deleuze's contribution to the study of health and human development. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 14(6) 619-634. Emmerson, P. 2017. Thinking laughter beyond humour: atmospheric refrains and ethical indeterminacies in spaces of care Environment and Planning A. 49(9) 2082-2098 Gorman, R. 2017. Thinking critically about health and human-animal relations: Therapeutic affect within spaces of care farming. Social Science & Medicine. Philo, C. 2007. A vitally human medical geography? Introducing Georges Canguilhem to geographers. New Zealand Geographer 63(2), pp. 82-96. Puig de la Bellacasa, M. 2017. Matters of care: speculative ethics in more than human worlds. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Diana Beljaars PhD Researcher School of Geography and Planning Cardiff University Glamorgan Building phone: +44 (0)7475185874 e-mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/research-students/view/363732-beljaars-diana