Nordic Geographers Conference 2017: CFP - The Politics of Movement

[Nancy Cook]

CALL FOR PAPERS
Nordic Geographers Meeting 2017: Geographies of Inequalities  (June 18-21, 2017) (http://www.humangeo.su.se/english/ngm-2017)

Session: The Politics of Movement

Session Conveners:
Nancy Cook, Department of Sociology, Brock University
David Butz, Department of Geography, Brock University

 

The politics of movement – entanglements of power, social inequality and mobilities ­– is an abiding preoccupation in social geography and critical mobilities studies. Both scholarly fields identify mobility as a fundamental structuring dimension of social life. They also demonstrate that the capacity for movement under conditions of one’s choosing is a valuable resource that is unequally distributed in social contexts structured by hierarchies of power. In other words, movement is socially differentiated; it reflects and reinforces structures of power to configure inequitable social hierarchies. Critical geographers and mobility scholars are tracing the ways in which relations of gender, race, class, sexuality and citizenship shape discourses and practices of mobility that produce beneficial movement for some people and too little or too much movement for others.

 

We are seeking papers from geographers and critical mobilities scholars that attend to the multi-scalar relationship between human corporeal movement and power in its everyday, official and multifaceted manifestations. Papers might, for example, (a) delineate a particular set of power relations (of gender, race, class, sexuality, citizenship) that are operating to produce differentiated movement with particular inequitable social effects; (b) explain how mobility exclusions operate and are experienced; (c) examine formal policies that regulate human movement and thereby produce social hierarchies; or (d) identify mobility strategies and practices employed to negotiate inequitable fields of movement.

 

Paper abstracts should be submitted by e-mail to nc...@brocku.ca by December 15, 2016. Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words, in plain text, and be saved in Word format. Please adhere to the following format:

Name of the session
Title of the paper (lowercase letters)
Author’s name and e-mail
Author’s institutional affiliation
Abstract

The session conveners will notify authors about paper selections by January 15, 2017. Accepted abstracts will be published on the conference webpage.

Dr. Nancy Cook

Associate Professor

Department of Sociology
Graduate Faculty Member, Critical Sociology & Social Justice and Equity Studies
Social Justice Research Institute Affiliate

Brock University

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