RHUL GEOGRAPHERS IN SAN FRANCISCO

The city of San Francisco. Birds eye view from the bay looking south-west. Library of Congress (G4364.S5A3 1878 .P3).

The preliminary programme for the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers has recently been published. The Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London will be strongly represented by both staff and doctoral researchers (detailed below).

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Felicity Butler

Abstract:

Valuing Unpaid Care Work in Community Fair Trade, Creating Resilient Households? A Case Study of The Body Shop Trading model with a Nicaraguan Sesame Cooperative

Sessions:

Producing Vulnerabilities 2: Gender and Cooperative Responses in Latin America — Presenter

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Mike Duggan

Abstract:

The lived experiences of a digitalizing world: where sleek technologies come up against the harsh realities of our cultural geographies

Sessions:

Geographies of Media IV: Digital technologies, everyday geographies and experiencing space and place (1) — Chair, Organizer, Presenter
Geographies of Media V: Digital technologies, everyday geographies and experiencing space and place (2) — Chair, Organizer

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David Gilbert

Abstract:

The creativities of everyday faith spaces and participatory research approaches

Sessions:

Creative Approaches to Researching Religion in the City 1: Embodied Practices and Narratives of Everyday Religion — Presenter
Creative Approaches to Researching Religion in the City 3: Negotiating Difference and Urban Space — Discussant

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Harriet Hawkins

Abstract:

Making Earth Futures

Sessions:

Creative Approaches to Researching Religion in the City 2: Exploring Faith through Participatory Public-Engagement Art — Discussant
Editor Meet Critics: Harriet Hawkins and Elizabeth Straughan’s “Geographical Aesthetics” (2014, Ashgate) — Panelist
Editor meets critics: The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide — Chair, Organizer
Geographies of Making: Creative Practices and Agentic Materiality — Presenter
Global Art Worlds and a World of Cities 2 — Discussant

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Natalie Hyacinth

Abstract:

SoundWorlds of the Sacred: Sense, Spirituality and Musical Performance

Sessions:

Creative Approaches to Researching Religion in the City 1: Embodied Practices and Narratives of Everyday Religion — Organizer, Presenter
Creative Approaches to Researching Religion in the City 2: Exploring Faith through Participatory Public-Engagement Art — Chair, Organizer
Creative Approaches to Researching Religion in the City 3: Negotiating Difference and Urban Space — Organizer

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Rikke Jensen

Abstract:

The Social Military: networked spaces, military places

Sessions:

Geographies of Media XIV: Media, governmentality, and managing the ‘more than human’ environment (2) — Presenter

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Anna Nikolaeva

Abstract:

Understanding Sociality and Agency of Mobile Publics: Expectations, Interventions and Possibilities

Sessions:

Making Sense of Heterogeneous and Unequal Geographies of Passengers II: Situated, Embodied and Active Aeromobile Passengerings — Presenter
Theorizing Mobility Transitions: Scales, Sites and Struggles — Chair, Organizer

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Alasdair Pinkerton

Abstract:

The Social Military: networked spaces, military places (Co-Presenter)

Sessions:

Geographies of Media XIV: Media, governmentality, and managing the ‘more than human’ environment (2) — Co-Presenter

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Katherine Stansfeld

Abstract:

Practising encounters: using visual ethnography to explore conviviality in super-diverse Finsbury Park, London

Sessions:

Contestations and negotiations over place in super-diverse neighborhoods 2: Everyday encounters with difference — Presenter

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Pip Thornton

Abstract:

The Production of Context and the Digital Reconstruction of Language

Sessions:

Toward a Geographical Software Studies 2: Language and tools — Presenter
Toward a Geographical Software Studies: methods and theory — Panelist