[csaa-forum] FW: RGS-IBG 2007 - CFP - Masculinity, intersectionality and place: dominant discourses and practices

[Gregory Noble]

Call for papers for the


Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers
Annual Conference, London, August 28 - 31, 2007 

'Masculinity, intersectionality and place: dominant discourses and
practices'

Organisers: Peter Hopkins (Lancaster University, UK) and Greg Noble
(University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Sponsored by the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group 

The geographies of masculinities have recently reached a critical mass
in the discipline (Longhurst, 2000, Berg and Longhurst, 2003, McDowell,
2003, van Hoven and Horschelmann, 2005) with work in this area exploring
a wide range of concerns about men's everyday practices, masculine
identities and gendered performances. By taking stock of such work, this
session aims to advance the geographies of masculinities by bringing the
sub-field into conversation with a series of current debates in the
social sciences and humanities around the theorization of identities,
the significance of emotions and the place(s) of the cultural.  

We welcome papers from researchers (including postgraduate students and
experienced researchers) working in any sub-field of human geography,
and in particular those working in social and cultural geographies and
in the links between geography and cultural studies.

Papers could focus on some of the following themes:

- Discussions and debates about the nature of 'hegemonic masculinity'
and its geographical variability
- The ways on which masculine identities intersect and interact with
other forms of identification including - but not limited to - race,
class, religion, disability, sexuality, nationality, body size etc
- Multiculturalism, cultural diversity and masculinities
- Masculinity and issues of respect and respectability
- The politics of recognition around masculinities
- Masculinities and geographies of intolerance
- Emotional geographies of masculinities
- Childhood and youth geographies and masculine identities

Please email abstracts (max 200 words) to p.hopkins at lancaster.ac.uk by
31st January 2007.