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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div align="justify" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.35em;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial">Call for Papers: </font><font face="Arial">Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting 2014, Tampa, FL, April 8-12</font></span></font></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.35em;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial">Session:<b> </b></font><font face="Arial" size="2">Challenging Hetero/Homonormativities in Homespaces</font></span></font></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.35em;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial">Convened by: </font></span></font></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.35em;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial">Nick Skilton - Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (UOW)</font></span></font></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.35em;"><font face="Verdana,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial">Andrew Gorman-Murray – University of Western Sydney</font></span></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font size="2"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font size="2">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?</font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font size="2"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font size="2">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’.</font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font size="2"> </font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font size="2">Paper topics could include, but are not limited to:</font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </div><ul style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><li><font size="2">Hetero/Homosexual performativities in the home</font></li><li><font size="2">Intimacies and touch</font></li><li><font size="2">Transgressive heterosexualities</font></li><li><font size="2">Polyamory and domesticity</font></li><li><font size="2">Human-companion animals relations and petafilia</font></li><li><font size="2">Neighbourliness and intimacy</font></li><li><font size="2">Domesticity, friendship and intimacy</font></li><li><font size="2">LGBTI and queer homemaking practices</font></li><li><font size="2">Queer approaches to different household forms (family, group, single, etc)</font></li><li><font size="2">Gender inequalities and efforts to redress this</font></li><li><font size="2">Queer methodologies in home research</font></li><li><font size="2">Differently-abled intimacies in the home</font></li><li><font size="2">Class, race, ethnicity, religion and homemaking practices</font></li></span></font></ul><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font size="2"> </font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font size="2">Please send abstracts (250 words maximum) to Nick Skilton (</font><a href="mailto:nb366@uowmail.edu.au" target="_blank"><font size="2"><font color="windowtext">nb366@uowmail.edu.au</font></font></a><font size="2">) or Andrew Gorman-Murray (</font><a href="mailto:A.Gorman-Murray@uws.edu.au" target="_blank"><font size="2"><font color="windowtext">A.Gorman-Murray@uws.edu.au</font></font></a><font size="2">) by November 15th, 2013. Paper selection will be confirmed by November 18th, 2013. </font><font size="2">Presenters of accepted papers will also need to register for the Annual Meeting (see </font><a href="http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/register" target="_blank"><font size="2"><b>http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/register</b></font></a><font size="2">), submit their abstract online, and provide their PIN by November 19th, 2013.</font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font size="2"> </font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 14pt;"><font size="6"><b><font size="2">REFERENCES</font></b></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -36pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><a name="_ENREF_1"><font size="2">Goodfellow, A. and Mulla, S. (2008). "Compelling intimacies: domesticity, sexuality, and agency." <u>Home Cultures</u> <b>5</b>: 257+.</font></a></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -36pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><a name="_ENREF_2"><font size="2">Gorman-Murray, A. (2006). "Gay and lesbian couples at home: identity work in domestic space." <u>Home Cultures</u> <b>3</b>: 145+.</font></a></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -36pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><a name="_ENREF_3"><font size="2">Gorman-Murray, A. (2007). "Contesting Domestic Ideals: queering the Australian home." <u>Australian Geographer</u> <b>38</b>(2): 195-213.</font></a></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -36pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><a name="_ENREF_4"><font size="2">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> <b>4</b>(4): 211-220.</font></a><a name="_ENREF_5"><font size="2"></font></a></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -36pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><font size="2">Gorman-Murray, A. (2012). “Urban homebodies: embodiment, masculinity and domesticity in inner Sydney”,</font><font size="2"><u>Geographical Research</u></font><font size="2"> </font><font size="2"><b>51</b></font><font size="2">(2): 137-144.</font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -36pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><font size="2">Longhurst, R., Johnston, L. and Ho, E. (2009). "A visceral approach: cooking ‘at home’ with migrant women in Hamilton, New Zealand." </font><font size="2"><u>Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers</u></font><font size="2"> </font><font size="2"><b>34</b></font><font size="2">(3): 333-345.</font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -36pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><a name="_ENREF_6"><font size="2">Morrison, C.-A. (2012). "Heterosexuality and home: Intimacies of space and spaces of touch." <u>Emotion, Space and Society</u> <b>5</b>(1): 10-18.</font></a></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -36pt; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><font size="2">Oswin, N. (2010). “The modern model family at home in Singapore: A queer geography.” </font><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><i><u>Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers</u></i></font><font size="2"> </font><font size="2"><b>35</b></font><font size="2">(2): 256-268.</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><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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