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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#242424">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#242424">With apologies for any cross-posting, we would like to remind you that the
<b>Call for Papers (CfP) for our proposed session at the RGS-IBG 2025 </b>conference this August (26th to 29th) is still open!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">CfP – Queer(ing) geography through arts-based methods</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Co-convenors: Prisca Pfammatter, Leandra M. Choffat (both University of Bern, Bern), Prof. Miriam Tola (John Cabot University, Rome)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">In recent years arts-based methods, as well as queer perspectives, have gained attention within the academic realm and the discipline of geography (Brice 2023; Gieseking,
2023). Nonetheless, examining queer practices and perspectives through arts-based methods is still peripheral to geographical research. Especially in current times, when political and social repression against LGBTIQ+ people is on the rise, it is urgent to
do research in novel ways to examine realities and geographies that do not follow the linear development of cis-endo heteronormative life. We need to go beyond conventional approaches to capture and value the complex spatial and emotional relations, structural
entanglements, and realities that characterize queer lived realities. Finding ways of (un)doing research means troubling and disrupting binaries, such as mind/body, subjective/objective, research participants/researcher, and the power relations that often
go with them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Using arts-based methods in queer geographies allows an exploration of embodied practices and social relations that disrupt the cis-endo heteronormative logics of community,
sexual and gender identity, and activities in space and time (Ahmed, 2014; Halberstam, 2005). Arts-based methods allow research participants to portray their place-based perspectives and highlight oftentimes undervalued forms of knowledge. They alter power
hierarchies between researcher and researched by questioning the role of the experts and facilitating reciprocity and care (Carpenter, 2022). Besides conventional forms of data dissemination, these methods also allow for creative ways to portray the results
in non-academic settings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Within the process of queering geographical research through arts-based methods, a critical engagement with the power dynamics involved in queer realities and research
processes is crucial. This means being mindful of our positionality as researchers, not to (re)appropriate notions of relationality and community, particularly those related to Indigenous, black, and trans practices and histories (Bradway & Freeman, 2022),
and paying attention to the accessibility of communities and research processes (Nachman et al., 2023).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">In this session, we encourage contributions that include, but are not limited to, the following forms:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black">Empirical or theoretical research using arts-based methods (such as theatre, poetry, dance, photography, zine-making, and many others) to examine queer geographies, practices,
and communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black">Methodological inputs on specific arts-based methods in relation to queer geographies,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black">Critical inputs analyzing the benefits and limits of queering arts-based methods situating conversation in intersectional power structures,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black">Artistic and/or activist inputs examining queer geographies through creative media practices.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">The session will be structured into two parts. The first part consists of 4-5 three-minute introductions of the submitted work, and the second part will be structured as a world café to facilitate
active discussions among panel participants. Due to the format of this panel and the limited availability of hybrid sessions at the conference, we are planning an in-person session.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Abstracts (max. 300 words) are submitted via email to Leandra Choffat (she/her;
</span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#0563C1">leandra.choffat@unibe.ch</span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">) and Prisca Pfammatter (she/her;
</span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#0563C1"><a href="mailto:prisca.pfammater@unibe.ch"><span style="color:#0563C1">prisca.pfamma</span></a>tter@unibe.ch</span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">) until
<b>Monday, 24th February 2025.</b></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">We are looking forward to your applications and an inspiring session!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Sources</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Ahmed, S. (2014). Queer Feelings. In
<i>The Cultural Politics of Emotion</i> (S. 144–167). Edinburgh University Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Bradway, T., & Freeman, E. (Hrsg.). (2022).
<i>Queer kinship: Race, sex, belonging, form</i>. Duke University Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Brice, S. (2023). Making space for a radical trans imagination: Towards a kinder, more vulnerable, geography.
<i>Environment and Planning D: Society and Space</i>. 41(4), 592-599. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758231187449"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758231187449</span></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Carpenter, J. (2022). Picture This: Exploring Photovoice as a Method to Understand Lived Experiences in Marginal Neighbourhoods.
<i>Urban Planning</i>, <i>7</i>(3), 351–362. https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v7i3.5451<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Gieseking, J. J. (2023).
</span><span lang="FR-CH" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Reflections on a cis discipline.
</span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Environment and Planning D: Society and Space</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">,
<i>41</i>(4), 571–591. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758231191656<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Halberstam, J. (2005).
<i>In a queer time and place: Transgender bodies, subcultural lives</i>. New York University Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Nachman, J. R., Hayhurst, L. M. C., McSweeney, M., & Wang, R. (2023). Co-creating knowledge on bicycling: A decolonial feminist participatory action research approach to arts-based methods.
<i>Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health</i>, <i>16</i>(1), 16–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2023.2243955<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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