Apologies for cross postings:
Second call for papers: Association of American Geographers Annual
Meeting, 13-18 April 2010, Washington, D.C.
Urban Children | Urban Nature
Children and nature are both fraught concepts that are highly
reflective of their societies, standing in for other social issues and
moral panics about the decline of modern life. 'Urban' is a
paradoxical modifier referring to both progress and decline.
Popularly, the term 'urban' is often code for racialized persons and
those living in severe poverty. This call for papers asks, how do
recent re-theorizations of urban nature interact with conceptions of
urban children? How can exploring urban nature and urban children
together explicate the power relations that attempt to control both of
these agentic subjects? How can urban children's views of nature help
us to see these webs of domination?
This session will examine the changing relationship between children
and nature in the city, both across space and time, through case
studies, theoretical examinations and methodological caveats. All
related paper topics are invited.
Possible paper explorations:
-Urban pets and children
-Children's relationships to parks
-Parks as "public ecologies"
-Differential access to natural resources across age categories
-Productivity and livelihoods
-Zoos as education sites
-Commodifications of urban nature in relation to children
-Symbolism, children and nature
-Boy Scouts and Girl Guides as nature training
-Wilderness, childhood, race, class and gender
-The suburban informing the urban
Please send expressions of interest to Ann Marie Murnaghan
([log in to unmask]) by October 18, 2009.
Thanks,
Ann Marie
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Ann Marie F. Murnaghan
PhD Candidate
Department of Geography
York University
4700 Keele St.
Toronto, ON M3J1P3
Canada
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