Call for Papers: Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Conference
The Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) will be held on April 14-18, 2010, in Washington D.C. GECHS SSC-member Joni Seager (Bentley University) is co-organising a paper session on “Gender and Climate Change – Pitfalls, Possibilities and Realities”, with Farhana Sultana (Syracuse University). Sponsors are Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group (CAPE), Development Geographies Specialty Group (DGSG), and Geographical Perspectives on Women Specialty Group (GPOW).
Geographers are uniquely situated to engage with the ways that nature-society relations are differentiated along gender lines, bringing fresh perspectives and critical lenses to the ways that climate change impacts and adaptation efforts are understood, experienced and acted up differently across axes of social differentiation, sites and scales. A gender perspective can thus provide insights to enrich existing debates, demonstrating the ways that drivers of climate change, vulnerability, resiliency, adaptation, policy-making, and decision-making are all bound up with various constructions of gender and difference, which have important outcomes in the ways that climate changes come to affect people and places. This session seeks to engender climate change debates and bring critical geography perspectives into conversation with the dominant narratives around climate change, related impacts, mitigation, and adaptation. Papers are invited that engage with such concerns.
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to both organizers by 15 October 2009. For more information on the AAG conference, please visit the conference website. Please note that there is no funding to assist attendance to the AAG conference.
