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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 (
> 13th
Annual Conference
>in
conjunction with
Mothering and the
Environment:
The Natural, The Social, and The Built
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
726 Atkinson,
arm@yorku.ca
http://www.yorku.ca/arm
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