The Social Well-Being and Spatial Justice research cluster at Durham University (United Kingdom) and the Participatory Geographies Working Group of the RGS/IBG is organizing a conference on participatory geography for January 2008. The conference, titled “Connecting People, Participation and Place” is open to anyone interested in participatory geographies and will cover the following themes:

1. The difference participation makes to understanding, investigating and acing upon issues connecting people and places
2. Charting the geographies of participation: settings, scales and spatialities

The conference will coincide with the publication of a Routledge text of the same name (eds Sara Kindon, Rachel Pain and Mike Kesby). Please send enquiries and suggestions at this stage to rachel.pain@durham.ac.uk. The conference website is www.geography.dur.ac.uk/Conf/Default.aspx?alias=www.geography.dur.ac.uk/conf/cppp. A full call for proposals will be announced in May 2007.

Sandy Heierbacher

Sandy Heierbacher co-founded the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD) with Andy Fluke in 2002, with the 60 volunteers and 50 organizations who worked together to plan NCDD’s first national conference. She served as NCDD's Executive Director between 2002 and 2018. Click here for a list of articles and resources authored by Sandy.

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