RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2012: 3rd to 5th July 2012, Edinburgh, UK.
Call for Papers: The Geographies of Leisure?
Organiser: Dr Tara Duncan (University of Otago)
Leisure has long been a topic of the geographical imagination. Whilst leisure studies and geography may have gone in somewhat separate directions in the past, the multi-, trans- and interdisciplinary nature of both subjects means that convergence and synergies are (re)emerging between these two subject fields.
This session seeks to explore the ways in which leisure and geographical thought have manifested innovative and creative research. The session aims to engage with contemporary research and knowledge production in and beyond leisure studies and in turn, to challenge Sheller and Urry’s (2006: 208) contention that the social sciences have generally neglected the significance of people’s movements for leisure, pleasure, work, family life, politics and protest.
As such, this session seeks to highlight the intersections between leisure studies and geography and invites papers that may consider some of the following:-
- Negotiating geography and leisure
- Security, geography, leisure
- Leisure studies and methodologies
- Affective possibilities and/of leisure
- Embodiment, leisure and performance
- Gender, leisure and (im)mobility
- Fluidity, movement and leisure
- Leisure and lifestyle
- Space, place, leisure and tourism
Please submit abstracts (of no more than 250 words) to Tara Duncan (tara.duncan@otago.ac.nz) by Monday 23rd January 2011.
References
Sheller M and Urry J, 2006, ‘The new mobilities paradigm’, Environment and Planning A, vol. 38, pp. 207-226.
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