Hello all:
I am sending this on behalf of the organizers. Please email them
directly if you have questions or comments, or want to submit an
abstract.
The session is co-sponsored by the Sexuality and Space Specialty Group.
Best,
JP
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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.
Please submit abstracts to: [log in to unmask]
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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JOHN PAUL CATUNGAL
PhD Candidate
Department of Geography
University of Toronto
Research Associate and Fellow
Comparative Program on Health and Society
VP Diversity/Community
Graduate Geography and Planning Student Society
"Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover who we are, but to refuse who we
are" (Michel Foucault)
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