CALL FOR PAPERS
13th Annual Conference in conjunction with York University's 50th Anniversary Celebration
Mothering and the Environment: The Natural, The Social, and The Built
October 23-25, 2009, York University, Toronto, Canada
We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, environmental
agencies and workers, environmental educators, artists, mothers and
others who work or research in this area. Cross-cultural, historical and
comparative work is encouraged. We encourage a variety of types of
submissions including academic papers from all disciplines, workshops,
creative submissions, performances, storytelling, visual arts and other
alternative formats.
Topics can include (but are not limited to):
maternal health and the environment; creating and maintaining
sustainable family systems; public/private spaces and the pregnant body;
procreation and fertility; declining fertility and the environment.
disability, environments and the maternal body; mothers, cancer and
pollution; mothering and HIV/AIDS, breastfeeding and environmental
toxins; mothering, environments, sustainability and technology; women,
children and 'nature'; gender, children and the language of 'the
natural'; resisting, embracing and challenging the image of Mother
Earth; the philosophy of nature and its relation to the feminine; nature
and culture as gendered concepts; New definitions of "environment";
environmental theory and mothering; feminist natural science; feminist
philosophy of natural science; essentialism and motherhood;. feminist
natural science; feminist philosophy of natural science. Indigenous
theories of mothering; mother environmental movements and maternal
activism; ecofeminism, maternal environmental activism and global
citizenship; the arts and mothering for social change; narrative inquiry
as a mother's story; imagination and motherhood; environmental activism
through the arts; representations/images of mothers and environmental
issues; mothering and social and environmental justice; mothering with
reduced resources; social environmental support for mothering; race and
(anti-) racism in parenting; mothering and educational environments;
mothering and children's play environments; mothering children in
data-driven school systems; mothering within the neoliberal context;
corporations, capitalism and the environment; commercialization of
nature; consumerism, the economy and performing motherhood; caring work,
waste and water; the effects of resource privatization/commodification
on poor and rural women; paternalism and dominant development models for
the global south; private and public geographies of mothering; mothering
and landscapes; geographies of mothering; mothering and geography;
mothering in public space and private space; the maternal in
architecture; modernist architecture as a symptom of patriarchy (phallic
skyscrapers); disability, environments and the maternal body; Internal
environments (mothering the self; internal/personal landscapes of
mothers); food, farming and the nurturer; GMOs ;The role of mothers in
creating food sovereignty; 'other' mothers; animal mothers, migration
and climate change.
INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Cindy Sheehan, Mother, Anti-war activist, Peace advocate, author of Not One More Mother's Child
If you are interested in being considered as a presenter, please send a
250 word abstract and a 50 word bio
by March 1, 2009 to: arm@yorku.ca
*one must be an ARM member to present at this conference:
http://www.yorku.ca/arm/armmembership.html
Association for Research on Mothering
726 Atkinson, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3
(Tel) (416) 736-2100 x 60366 (Fax) 416-736-5766
email us at arm@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/arm
