CALL FOR PAPERS: Population Geographies of Childhood &Youth (Fourth Biannual British-Irish Population Conference), 12-13 May 2014

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Population Geographies of Childhood and Youth

Fourth Biannual British-Irish Population Conference

12^th-13^th May 2014

Hosted by Department of Geography, Swansea University under the auspices of the Population Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG

 

Papers are invited for a forthcoming conference on any aspects of the Population Geographies of Childhood and Youth.  Whilst there is a focus on the UK and Ireland, papers that address the broad conference theme in other geographical contexts will also be most welcome.

 

Population Geography, with its traditional focus on the spatial dimensions of fertility, migration and mortality, can be said to track, albeit implicitly and often in complex ways, the human life course.  For example, births, deaths and even different expressions of migration tend to be associated with particular life course stages and transitions.  And yet it may also be argued that Population Geography could do more to foreground the life course within its scholarship.  In seeking to begin to promote this foregrounding, the present conference will focus on demographic geographical expressions involving one highly constitutive part of the life course: childhood and youth.  Moreover, it seeks to do this within a broad interpretation of Population Geography that embraces more than the spatial actions of birth, death and residential relocation alone.

 

Papers are invited on any aspect of the Population Geographies of Childhood and Youth, rooted within any conceptual approach, and engaging quantitative and/or qualitative methods and material.  Such papers may address aspects of the following interlinked themes:

 

i.                     Population Geography as an adultist construct;

ii.                   Spaces of fertility and early years’ care;

iii.                 Geographies of youth fertilities;

iv.                 Migration and mobilities of children and youth;

v.                   Geographies of infant and child mortality;

vi.                 Young people and the recession.

 

Abstracts (max. 250 words) are invited by 31^st March 2014.  These should be submitted to k.h.halfacree@swansea.ac.ukand include full contact details for the corresponding author.

 

Keynote Address:  Professor Peter Kraftl, Leicester University

 

The conference opens with registration accompanied by tea/coffee on Monday 12^th May 2014 at 10.30 in the Foyer of the Wallace Building (Swansea University).  This will be followed by the keynote address at 11.30.  The conference closes mid-afternoon on Tuesday 13^th May.

 

Conference Fee: £75 (includes conference dinner on Monday evening and lunch and tea/coffee on both Monday and Tuesday).

 

Conference Organisers:

 

Keith Halfacree, British-Irish Population Conference (BIP) Organising Committee (Wales), Department of Geography, Swansea University & RGS-IBG Population Geography Research Group: k.h.halfacree@swansea.ac.uk

 

Ian Shuttleworth, Chair of RGS-IBG Population Geography Research Group & School of Planning, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University Belfast

Mary Cawley, BIP Organising Committee (Ireland) & Department of Geography, National University of Ireland (Galway)

Allan Findlay, BIP Organising Committee (Scotland) & Department of Geography and Sustainable Development, St Andrews University

Darren Smith, BIP Organising Committee (England) & Department of Geography, Loughborough University

Aileen Stockdale, BIP Organising Committee (Northern Ireland) & School of Planning, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University Belfast