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CFP: Geographies of (dis)ability, (ill) health, emotion and affect.
RGS –IBG Annual International Conference: London, 1st-3rd September 2010
Organisers: Louise Holt, Jennifer Lea (University of Reading), Hannah
MacPherson (University of Brighton)
Research group affiliation: Geographies of Health Research Group
This session aims to explicitly connect work on the geographies of
(dis)ability, ill health and wellbeing with research on emotion and
/or affect. Over recent years, the interest that human geographers
have shown in the emotional and (broadly conceived) affective realms
has increased substantially, making an impact in most areas of the
discipline. From the emotional responses that shape and arise from
embodied relationships with particular spatial settings, to the
‘logics’ of affect that shape configurations of economic, social and
cultural life, the emotional and affective realms are increasingly
being called upon as legitimate ways of knowing the world.
It was critical geographies of disability and chronic illness (e.g.
Dyck 1999, Moss 1999, Chouinard 1999) that proved one of the most
willing to ‘admit emotions into [the] production of geographical
knowledges’ (Davidson et al 2005, 4). Despite that starting point
there has been limited sustained dialogue. As such, this session calls
for papers that explicitly take this dialogue forward by investigating
aspects of the multidimensional and varied relationships that exist
between (dis)ability, health and wellbeing and emotion/affect.
We invite abstracts that explore the geographies of emotion and affect
in relation to a wide range of mind-body differences – which might
include physical impairments, mental health, intellectual disability,
emotional, social and behavioural differences – working with a broad
conception of disability and impairment (see Chouinard et al 2010, in
press). We encourage the submission of papers that work with a range
of theoretical positions stemming from human geography and the wider
social sciences.
Contributions might explore, but not be restricted to:
- Emotions and experiences of impairment and disablement.
- Body/mind-environment relationships and emotions/affect.
- Emotions/affects and exclusionary processes.
- Social relationships and disability.
- Ableist geographies of emotion and affect / the disabling effect of
normalizing logics of affect and emotional conduct and communication.
- Historical/contemporary geographies of the role of emotions/affect
in the construction of impairment.
- The role of emotions in renewing the social model of disability.
- Emotion/affect and disability activism.
- The emotional geographies of doing disability research.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1st February 2009.
Please send abstracts (of maximum 250 words), name and affiliation to
all three organisers:
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Dr Jennifer Lea
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