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The Association for Research on Mothering (ARM), founded in 1998, is the first international feminist organization devoted specifically to the topic of mothering-motherhood. Our mandate is to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of research on motherhood and to establish a community of individuals and institutions working and researching in the area of mothering and motherhood.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)
 13th Annual Conference
in conjunction with York University’s 50th Anniversary Celebration

Mothering and the Environment:

The Natural, The Social, and The Built

October 22-25, 2009, York University, Toronto, Canada

We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, environmental agencies and workers, environmental educators, artists, mothers and others who work or research in this area. Cross-cultural, historical and comparative work is encouraged. We encourage a variety of types of submissions including academic papers from all disciplines, workshops, creative submissions, performances, storytelling, visual arts and other alternative formats.

Topics can include (but are not limited to):

maternal health and the environment; creating and maintaining sustainable family systems; public/private spaces and the pregnant body; procreation and fertility; declining fertility and the environment. disability, environments and the maternal body; mothers, cancer and pollution; mothering and HIV/AIDS, breastfeeding and environmental toxins; mothering, environments, sustainability and technology; women, children and ‘nature’; gender, children and the language of ‘the natural’; resisting, embracing and challenging the image of Mother Earth; the philosophy of nature and its relation to the feminine; nature and culture as gendered concepts; New definitions of “environment”; environmental theory and mothering; feminist natural science; feminist philosophy of natural science; essentialism and motherhood; Indigenous theories of mothering; mother environmental movements and maternal activism; ecofeminism, maternal environmental activism and global citizenship; the arts and mothering for social change; narrative inquiry as a mother's story; imagination and motherhood; environmental activism through the arts; representations/images of mothers and environmental issues; mothering and social and environmental justice; mothering with reduced resources; social environmental support for mothering; race and (anti-) racism in parenting; mothering and educational environments; mothering and children’s play environments; mothering children in data-driven school systems; mothering within the neoliberal context; corporations, capitalism and the environment; commercialization of nature; consumerism, the economy and performing motherhood; caring work, waste and water; the effects of resource privatization/commodification on poor and rural women; paternalism and dominant development models for the global south; private and public geographies of mothering; mothering and landscapes; geographies of mothering; mothering and geography; mothering in public space and private space; the maternal in architecture; modernist architecture as a symptom of patriarchy (phallic skyscrapers); disability, environments and the maternal body; Internal environments (mothering the self; internal/personal landscapes of mothers); food, farming and the nurturer; GMOs ;The role of mothers in creating food sovereignty; ‘other’ mothers; animal mothers, migration and climate change.

  If you are interested in being considered as a presenter, please send a 250 word abstract and a 50 word bio by March 1, 2009 to: arm@yorku.ca. 

Association for Research on Mothering
726 Atkinson, York University,
4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3
(Tel) (416) 736-2100 x 60366 (Fax) 416-736-5766 
arm@yorku.ca  http://www.yorku.ca/arm





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