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Call for Papers: “Sensing and making sense of ‘nature’ in the context of illness and impairment”
RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2017, 29th August – 1st September, London
Convenors: Sarah Bell (University of Exeter) and Ronan Foley (Maynooth University)
There is a large and growing body of research – as well as longstanding cultural narratives – suggesting that time spent in ‘nature’ could promote a sense of wellbeing in the contexts of people’s day to day lives. In this work, ‘nature’ tends to refer to settings such as gardens, parks, woodlands, beaches, rivers or the ‘countryside’ more broadly. With much of this work focusing on so-called ‘able-bodied’ experiences, this session – sponsored by the Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Research Group – calls for papers that promote more critical awareness of alternative ways of embodying, interpreting and representing nature-based encounters. In doing so, it seeks to challenge dominant scripts about how to ‘be’ in, move through and experience such settings, and therefore to recognise the multiplicity of ways of being ‘well’ (or otherwise) in nature.
Please provide author name(s), author affiliation(s), author email(s), paper title, paper abstract (~200 words) and an indication of which author(s) will be presenting. Please submit this information to Sarah Bell ([email protected]) and Ronan Foley ([email protected]) by Thursday 9th February 2017. The convenors will let all authors know whether or not their papers can be accommodated in the session by 15 th February at the latest (this will allow the conference deadline of 17th February to be met).
