Dear all,
Please see below a final reminder for the session on Everyday Mobilities
and Climatic Events at the RGS/IBG conference. Abstracts are due by 7
February.
Best regards,
Anna
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Everyday Mobilities and Climatic Events
Call for Papers, RGS with IBG Annual International Conference, 29 Aug –
1 Sep 2017, London, UK
Session sponsored by Transport Geography Research Group
Anna Plyushteva, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Nihan Akyelken, University of Oxford
Tim Schwanen, University of Oxford
Weather and climate shape the everyday mobilities of people worldwide,
in both mundane and increasingly disruptive ways. Transportation, on the
other hand, is closely linked to climate in at least three ways: as a
major contributor to climate change; as a sector progressively more
vulnerable to its effects; and as a set of individual and institutional
practices which have proven resistant to transformative change. We are
interested in bringing together theoretical and empirical contributions
which examine the ways in which climatic events play out in the everyday
mobilities of different groups and locales.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Everyday mobilities and vulnerability to climatic events;
* The role of gender, life course and household dynamics in climate
and everyday mobility;
* Social, spatial and environmental inequalities in transport and
climate change vulnerability;
* Examples of transport policies which address the social
implications of climatic events for everyday mobility.
We are especially interested in papers which take a comparative
approach, and/or focus on the global South.
The TGRG has a small prize for the best postgraduate presentation in any
TGRG session at the RGS-IBG 2017 Conference. If you wish to enter for
the Postgraduate Prize a full paper should be submitted to the Chair and
Secretary of TGRG prior to the conference date for judging. For more
information and to find out about entry criteria please contact TGRG
postgraduate rep Clare Woroniuk
([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>).
Please submit abstracts of up to 250 words to Dr Tim Schwanen,
[log in to unmask], by 7 February 2017.
We endeavour to contact all abstract authors by 13 February.
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