Upcoming events:

3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GEOGRAPHIES OF CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND FAMILIES

(11-14th July 2012, National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Following the very popular and succesful 1st International Conference in Reading (2007) and 2nd Conference in Barcelona (2009) the 3rd Conference will be held in Singapore at the National University of Singapore in 2012. Given the geographies of this conference we particularly encourage a focus on Asia-Pacific, but welcome papers and research from an international context. The conference will be open to academics, postgraduates and locally based youth and childhood practitioners and workers.

Two confirmed Key Note speakers are:

Professor Stuart Aitken, Department of Geography, San Diego State University, USA

Professor Johanna Wyn, Youth Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia

PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS:

The Conference seeks submissions of papers and/or organised sessions (between 4 and 5 presenters) to be submitted by February 17th 2012. We welcome abstracts for papers focusing on a range of themes relating to geographies of children, young people and families that explore topics such as:

• Citizenship/non-citizenship
• Participation - practice, politics and problems
• Intergenerationality - theorising, researching, practices
• Urban spaces and spatialities
• Mobilities
• Global-local negotiations of young people's and children's experiences, identities, materialities and practices
• Young people's and children's spatiotemporal trajectories, aspirations and futures
• Interrogating children's, young people's and families' place in public space from gendered, classed, raced and/or sexualised perspectives
• Education and global futures
• Territories, borders and statelessness
• Development complexities
• Employment, labour, volunteering and work
• Representations - practices, ethics and methods

Other topics will be considered.

We particularly encourage postgraduate students participation and plan to have funds to provide some financial assitance.

For further details and expressions of interest in submitting a paper abstract or an pre-established session proposal please contact the conference organiser:

Dr Tracey Skelton
Department of Geography
National University of Singapore

geost@nus.edu.sg