Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute for British Geographers, 26th – 29th August 2014, London
Call for Papers
Intergenerational mobilities: experiencing age in mobile urban spaces
Sponsored by the Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group (GCYFRG)
Session Conveners
Lesley Murray, University of Brighton (L.Murray@brighton.ac.uk)
Sue Robertson, University of Brighton (S.Robertson@brighton.ac.uk)
Abstract
With the proportion of people living in the world’s cities set to rise to 70% by 2050 it is becoming increasingly important to understand the ways in which mobile urban spaces are co-produced by people of different ages (Cresswell 2006, Urry 2007). Drawing from work on geographies of the lifecourse (Bailey 2009; Hockey 2009; Hopkins and Pain 2007) this session is concerned with the ways in which age, as a relational concept, intersects with mobile urban space. We are interested in the ways in which age is played out in urban spaces according to constructions of lifecourse and generation looking not only at the margins, in relation to older age and childhood, but at the dynamic interdependencies between all ages. Here, the notion of the lifecourse is fluid and connected and generation is relational (Vanderbeck 2007), intersecting with other social categorizations. Through focusing on urban mobile spaces that are the context for intergenerational mobilities, this session will explore these interdependencies and consider ways in which intergenerational mobilities are conceptualized and researched.
Potential topics that papers may address include:
Embodied experiences of particular intergenerational mobile spaces
Intergenerational experiences using particular modes of travel
Intergenerational cultures of mobility
Theoretical conceptualisations of the relationality of age and intergenerational mobilities
The role of mobility in everyday life in/between cities for different generations and across the lifecourse
Mobile imaginations across generations
Intersectionality – exploring the junctures of particular markers of social difference such as gender and race with age.
Research methodologies and methods that further understanding of intergenerational mobile spaces
Representations of age and ageing in mobile urban space
If you are interested in presenting a paper in this session please send an abstract to the session organisers Lesley Murray L.Murray@brighton.ac.uk and Sue Robertson S.Robertson@brighton.ac.uk – by 10th February 2014
Conference information can be found at: http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/Annual+international+conference.htm