Dear Colleagues,
I am involved in organising two sessions at the IGU in Brisbane next year and would love to hear from any of you keen to present. It would be great to connect with others in Australasia working with participatory approaches in research and teaching given the emerging presence of sessions about participatory geographies at both AAG and IBG conferences over the last two years. Postgraduate students are particularly encouraged to present.
At this stage, all I need is a provisional title and your institutional details, confirmed titles and abstracts are due 20 February.
Please have a look at the information below and email me by December 9.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Sara
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Session Title: Doing Participation 'Downunder'
Session Convenors: Sara Kindon, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, NZ and Ruth Panelli, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ.
Discussant: Rachel Pain, University of Durham, Durham, UK
In response to the so-called 'participatory turn' (Kitchin and Fuller 2001) in Geography, sessions focusing on participatory geographies were held at the IBG 2004 and AAG 2005 respectively. There have also been several articles discussing the possibilties and challenges of participatory approaches within geography (see Kesby 2000, Kindon 2003 and Pain 2004 among others). This proposal seeks to build on and sustain this growing interest by providing a space to critically reflect on the specific forms participatory geographies have taken in Australia and New Zealand, and to question if, how and why they differ from participatory geographies practised elsewhere.
Session Title: Widening Participation?: Some Possibilities and Challenges of teaching Participatory Action Research within Geography
Session Convenors: Sara Kindon, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, NZ and Sarah Elwood, University of Arizona, USA
At a time when universities around the world are becoming entrenched within audit cultures associated with teaching, research and community service, integrating PAR into our teaching offers many possibilities and considerable challenges. This session will bring together geographers from around the world to share examples from practice and to consider how local geographical and institutional contexts inform what change is possible both within and beyond the classroom.
Sara Kindon
Senior Lecturer
Human Geography and Development Studies
Institute of Geography
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600
Wellington
Aotearoa/New Zealand
Tel: +64-4-463-6194
Fax: +64-4-463-5186
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