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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Call for Papers: </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting 2014, Tampa, FL, April 8-12</span></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></b></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Session: </span></b><font face="Arial" size="2" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Challenging Hetero/Homonormativities in Homespaces</span></font></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><font face="Arial" size="2" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br></span></font></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Convened by Nick Skilton - Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (UOW)</span></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Andrew Gorman-Murray – University of Western Sydney</span></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 11pt;">Home has been described as “central to the reproduction of both individuals and the social body” (Goodfellow and Mulla 2008). It is also a space that is considered deeply gendered and sexualised. The ways in which individuals and societies imprint ‘home’ either consciously or unconsciously as a gendered and sexualised space have both material and theoretical legacies. However, research into the embodied relationships between bodies and gender/sexuality performance and the spatial production of homemaking is still relatively underdone. What are the multiple and diverse experiences of homemaking? How are particular forms of heterosexuality normalised or contested in the home? What are the transgressive practices that expose the normalisation of heterosexuality? How might GLBTIQ families be creating – or challenging – new homonormativites in and through the home?</p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 11pt;"><br></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 11pt;">This session seeks to explore lived and theorised homespaces; the various embodied intimacies, loving expressions, haptic knowledges, material attachments and methodological processes that can be produced in or about the home. The embodied practices and materialities of homespaces have begun to be explored by, for instance, Morrison (2012) in work on heterosexual bodies and touch, Oswin (2010) on the queerness of model family homes, Gorman-Murray (2006; 2007; 2011; 2012) on heteromasculine and queer domesticities, and Longhurst et al. (2009) on diasporic homespaces, viscerality and the connection to food. This work scratches the surface of the diversity of cultural practices, fluid sexualities and innovative research methodologies that we could weave into our research praxis. This session also aims to include an intersectional dialogue that examines not only hetero/homonormativities and straight or GLBTIQA homes but also the diverse homemaking practices of the differently-abled, people of colour and those of any class or religion to enable new understandings of ‘home’.</p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 11pt;"> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 11pt;">Paper topics could include, but are not limited to:</p><p class="ecxMsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="line-height: 12px; font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Hetero/Homosexual performativities in the home</p><p class="ecxMsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="line-height: 12px; font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Intimacies and touch</p><p class="ecxMsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="line-height: 12px; font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Transgressive heterosexualities</p><p class="ecxMsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="line-height: 12px; font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Polyamory and domesticity</p><p class="ecxMsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="line-height: 12px; font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Human-companion animals relations and petafilia</p><p class="ecxMsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="line-height: 12px; font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Neighbourliness and intimacy</p><p class="ecxMsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="line-height: 12px; font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Domesticity, friendship and intimacy</p><p class="ecxMsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="line-height: 12px; font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>LGBTI and queer homemaking practices</p><p class="ecxMsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="line-height: 12px; font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Queer approaches to different household forms (family, group, single, etc)</p><p class="ecxMsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="line-height: 12px; font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Gender inequalities and efforts to redress this</p><p class="ecxMsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="line-height: 12px; font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Queer methodologies in home research</p><p class="ecxMsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="line-height: 12px; font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Differently-abled intimacies in the home</p><p class="ecxMsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="line-height: 12px; font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Class, race, ethnicity, religion and homemaking practices</p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 11pt;"> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 11pt;"> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 11pt;"></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span style="line-height: 22px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Please send abstracts (250 words maximum) to Nick Skilton (</span><a href="mailto:nb366@uowmail.edu.au" style="line-height: 22px; font-weight: bold; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: windowtext;">nb366@uowmail.edu.au</span></a><span style="line-height: 22px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">) or Andrew Gorman-Murray (</span><a href="mailto:A.Gorman-Murray@uws.edu.au" style="line-height: 22px; font-weight: bold; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: windowtext;">A.Gorman-Murray@uws.edu.au</span></a><span style="line-height: 22px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">) by November 15th, 2013. Paper selection will be confirmed by November 18th, 2013.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> Presenters of accepted papers will also need to register for the Annual Meeting (see </span><a href="http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/register" target="_blank" style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/register</a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">), submit their abstract online, and provide their PIN by November 19th, 2013.</span></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Please contact the organizers if you have any questions. </span></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">For more information about the 2013 AAG Annual Meeting, please visit <a href="http://www.aag.org/annualmeeting" target="_blank" style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">www.aag.org/annualmeeting</span></a>.</span></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><font size="2" style="line-height: normal;">REFERENCES</font></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a name="_ENREF_1" target="_blank" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Goodfellow, A. and Mulla, S. (2008). "Compelling intimacies: domesticity, sexuality, and agency." <u>Home Cultures</u> 5: 257+.</a></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a name="_ENREF_2" target="_blank" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gorman-Murray, A. (2006). "Gay and lesbian couples at home: identity work in domestic space." <u>Home Cultures</u> 3: 145+.</a></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a name="_ENREF_3" target="_blank" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gorman-Murray, A. (2007). "Contesting Domestic Ideals: queering the Australian home." <u>Australian Geographer</u> 38(2): 195-213.</a></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a name="_ENREF_4" target="_blank" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gorman-Murray, A. (2011). "Economic crises and emotional fallout: Work, home and men’s senses of belonging in post-GFC Sydney." <u>Emotion, Space and Society</u> 4(4): 211-220.</a></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Gorman-Murray, A. (2012). “Urban homebodies: embodiment, masculinity and domesticity in inner Sydney”, </span><u style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Geographical Research</u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">51</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">(2): 137-144.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Longhurst, R., Johnston, L. and Ho, E. (2009). "A visceral approach: cooking ‘at home’ with migrant women in Hamilton, New Zealand." </span><u style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers</u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">34</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">(3): 333-345.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a name="_ENREF_6" target="_blank" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Morrison, C.-A. (2012). "Heterosexuality and home: Intimacies of space and spaces of touch." <u>Emotion, Space and Society</u> 5(1): 10-18.</a></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Oswin, N. (2010). “The modern model family at home in Singapore: A queer geography.” </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><u>Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers</u></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">35</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(2): 256-268</span>.</span></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></span></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.09090805053711px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><b style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Nick Skilton</span></b></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.09090805053711px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><b style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></b></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.09090805053711px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">PhD Candidate</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.09090805053711px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER)</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.09090805053711px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">University of Wollongong NSW 2522</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.09090805053711px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.09090805053711px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="line-height: 18px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.uow.edu.au/science/eesc/ausccer" target="_blank" style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">www.uow.edu.au/science/eesc/ausccer</a> </span></p><br><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:19.09090805053711px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Nick Skilton</span></b></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:19.09090805053711px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></b></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:19.09090805053711px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">PhD Candidate</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:19.09090805053711px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER)</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:19.09090805053711px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">University of Wollongong NSW 2522</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:19.09090805053711px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="line-height:19.09090805053711px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.uow.edu.au/science/eesc/ausccer" target="_blank" style="color:blue;cursor:pointer;">www.uow.edu.au/science/eesc/ausccer</a> <br><br></span><span style="line-height:10.909090995788574px;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"></span></p><b style="color:rgb(68, 68, 68);font-size:14px;line-height:19.09090805053711px;"><span style="line-height:16.363636016845703px;font-size:9pt;"><img border="0" width="396" height="124" id="ecx_x0000_i1027" src="" alt=""></span></b> </div></body>
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