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Editor's Subject: CFP/ AAG Session: "Living On In Place: The Role of Refugee Camps as a Structuring Force and Form in the Social Organization of Everyday Living Amidst Long-Term Displacement"
Author's Subject: CFP/ AAG Session: "Living On In Place: The Role of Refugee Camps as a Structuring Force and Form in the Social Organization of Everyday Living Amidst Long-Term Displacement"
Date Written: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:47:47 +0200
Date Posted: Sun, 24 Oct 2009 09:47:47 -0400

H-Gender-MidEast

PLACING GEOGRAPHY DISCUSSION FORUM IN CO-SPONSORSHIP WITH AAG GEOGRAPHIC
PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN (GPOW), CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY & HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY
SPECIALTY GROUPS ANNOUNCE:

Call for Papers:  AAG Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., April 14-18, 2010
Session Title: "Living On In Place: The Role of Refugee Camps as a
Structuring
Force and Form in the Social Organization of Everyday Living Amidst
Long-Term
Displacement"

Organizer: Kevin M. DeJesus, York University (kdejesus@yorku.ca)

Session Précis:

This session centers concepts of place and structure toward exploring
the role
of refugee/internal displacement camps as a structuring force (Sack
1997).
Refugee/internal displacement camps are constitutive of social,
material,
economic, and political dimensions, which shape forms and processes of
everyday human  relationality.  Bringing together scholars carrying out
qualitative, as well as quantitative research in refugee camps, the
objective
of this session is to further explain how refugee camps - sites of
placemaking,
as well as everyday living/"living on" (Lloyd 2000)- co-operate as a
constitutive force in the life experiences and historical geographies of
persons living long-term displacement. Refugee camps as places,
structure
patterns and forms of social relationships and institutions, including
the
family, state-refugee-society relations, as well as the implementation
of
humanitarian supports and NGO projects.

Questions of agency and the role of place in refugee camp life,
intersecting
through the structuring force of refugee/internal displacement camps,
provides
the focus for this panel. The organizing question for this session is
two-fold:
How are refugee camps a structuring force, and what are the
implications for
apprehending the role of the refugee camp as structure, in shaping
understandings of everyday living amidst the circumstances of long-term
displacement?

Please send your paper abstract and registration PIN to Kevin DeJesus,
kdejesus@yorku.ca, with “AAG Refugee Camps Session” noted in your e-mail
subject line. Kindly ensure to submit your abstract by Monday, October
26,
2009.

With very best wishes,

Kevin DeJesus


"Mind consciousness gives rise to actions that lead to ripening.
It plays the role of the gardener, sowing all the seeds."
-Thich Nhat Hanh

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PhD Candidate (ABD)
Department of Geography
York University
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