Announcing a Participatory Geography Conference
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.