Apologies for the cross-postings: I have extended the
deadline for papers for this session. I have already
received several excellent papers, I need just one or two
more to round out the session.
CALL FOR PAPERS, 2006 AAG, Chicago
On the Geographies of Health and Sexuality
As has been evinced in recent years, geographers have
become more cognizant of the importance of sexuality
studies to the study of geography. In addition, critical
debates within the field of health and medical geography
have demonstrated that there are important interlinkages
between the geographies of health and sexuality. This is
not only seen in a resurgence of interest in HIV disease
among geographers, but also in numerous other areas,
including the study of mental health, disabilities, ?the
medical,? body spaces, drug use, children?s geographies,
and safe space campaigns. In this session, participants
are asked to contribute to the increasing dialogue between
health and sexuality geographers, with the larger goal of
pushing this dialogue even further. In particular,
participants are asked to consider the following:
** What are the linkages between the geographies of health
and sexuality?
** In what ways can the study of health and sexuality
raise important questions for how we 'do' geography?
** In what ways are our mundane geographies already always
informed by critical questions related to the discursive
and material intersections between health and sexuality,
in all their myriad constitutions?
** In what ways has the 'medicalization' of sexualities
impacted the geographies of health and health care?
These are but a few suggestions for broad guiding
questions. Participants are asked to draw from their own
research to engage with these and other timely questions.
This session particularly encourages geographers who have
not traditionally worked in the area of health and/or
sexuality studies to consider how their work might be
informed by a critical dialogue between these two fields
of inquiry. Participants are thus encouraged to suggest
topics that range political and economic context and
engage with issues that interrogate not only the ?margins?
but also the ?centers? (i.e., the normative constitution
of heterosexualities).
Paper abstracts, which meet the AAG guidelines, should be
submitted to Vincent Del Casino ([log in to unmask] ) no
later than 30 September 2005.
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Vincent J. Del Casino Jr., Ph.D.
Department of Geography
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840
(P) 562-985-2357
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Book Review Editor
Social and Cultural Geography
Associate Professor
Departments of Geography and Liberal Studies
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