AAG 2007 Call for Papers
San Francisco, 17th-21st April 2007
(Re)theorising geographies of young people: identity, power and space
Organisers: Louise Holt (University of Reading, UK) and Lauren Costello
(Monash
University, Melbourne, Australia).
Key recent contributions to children's geographies have identified the need
to examine new directions for theorising geographies of children and young
people (e.g. Horton and Kraftl, 2006). Some commentaries have also
suggested the potential pitfalls of empiricism (Matthews, 2005). Such
contentions will undoubtedly provoke significant debate and dialogue amongst
researchers concerned with young people, place and space (e.g. Beale, 2006).
Geographers of children and young people are arguably particularly
well-placed to tease out the shifting theoretical terrain of the linkages
between young people, identity, power and space; themes which underpin much
scholarship in this area. Papers are therefore invited which theorise young
people, identity, power and space within a variety of sociospatial contexts
of the globalised world (Holt and Holloway, 2006). Contributions are
particularly encouraged which focus upon any of the following interconnected
approaches:
* performativity
* embodiment
* mobilities
* geographies of emotions and affect
* exclusion, inclusion and marginalisation young people
* social reproduction and / or transformation
* theorising age, youth and childhood
* axes of power / difference (gender / sex, sexuality, (dis)ability, race /
ethnicity, class)
* institutions
* theory and transformative geographies of children and young people
Please send abstracts to Louise Holt ([log in to unmask]) by 15th October,
2006.
For further details of abstract requirements see
http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/SF2007/call4papers.cfm
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