Call for Papers
AAG Annual Meeting, 24-28 February 2012, New York

(Im)Mobilities of Dwelling: Places and Practices

Session Conveners: Dr. Sybille Frank (Technical University Darmstadt), Dr. Lars Meier
(University of Munich), Dr. Silke Steets (Technical University Darmstadt)

In an era of rising importance of mobility in everyday life places of residence are still vital.
Besides to commute, migrate or travel dwellings are immobile places to rest. At the same time,
practices of dwelling have become more and more movable, since, in the case of ultra-mobile
people, they are transferred to new dwellings time and again. It is the task of this session to
evaluate the significance of dwelling as a social experience in mobile times.
Dwellings can be intertwined with personal biographies, as important places of memories, where
belongings are collected and a unique interior is arranged. It is through personal experiences and
through the spatial organization of physical objects that dwellings become significant to people.
This even applies to transitory modes of dwelling, such as hotel rooms, caravans, doss houses or
refugee camps.
In this session we want to encourage presentations that put their focus on the practices of dwelling
in societies in transition. We encourage papers that consider the topic of dwelling under the
umbrella of broader transformations of society and their manifestations on the level of everyday
experiences. We are especially keen to receive proposals that are based on empirical research
putting light on one of the following topics:

- Dwellings as places of personal memories and as structuring personal biographies

- The relevance of dwelling in the everyday life, as a place for rest

- Practices that distinguish dwelling in principal from dwelling in secondary
residences

- Practices of making oneself at home in transitory modes of dwelling

- Dwellings as places of differentiation and of staging identities

- Dwellings as places of negotiating gender relations

- Dwellings as places of negotiating the private and the public sphere

We are happy to receive abstracts of 250 words maximum by 25th of August. Authors will be
notified of acceptance of their abstract for presentation by 5th of September.
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This session is sponsored by: Cultural Geography Specialty Group; Development Geographies
Specialty Group; Geographical Perspectives on Women Specialty Group; Indigenous Peoples
Specialty Group; Public and Private Affinity Group; Recreation, Tourism & Sport Specialty
Group; Regional Development and Planning Specialty Group; Sexuality and Space Specialty
Group; Socialist and Critical Geography Specialty Group; Urban Geography Specialty Group.
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