Women and Geography Study Group
Reading Weekend

Women and Geography Study Group Reading Weekend 2010

Friday 7th - Sunday 9th May

Venue: The Nightingale Centre, Great Hucklow, Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 8RH
http://www.thenightingalecentre.org.uk/index.php

Details to be announced. Please check back soon.

Loosely related to emotional geographies, and particularly inspired by Liz Bondi's open and honest reflection of her emotions around her PhD research (Bondi 2005) and Bronwyn Davies et al's (2005) piece discussing embodiment in academic work, the Women and Geography Study Group and the Space, Sexuality and Queer Working Group ran the reading weekend to examine more closely the way emotions are negotiated within the variously experienced terrains of academic geography.

The weekend allowed greater consideration of broader discussions currently taking place concerning the neoliberalisation of academia, the anxieties and fears experienced throughout the working life of academic geographers and that from collaborations and creative discussions further projects will develop.

Key texts:

• Bondi, Liz (2005) The place of emotions in research: from partitioning emotion and research to the emotional dynamics of research relations, in Joyce Davidson, Liz Bondi and Mick Smith (Eds.) Emotional Geographies (Ashgate: Hampshire).
• Davies, Bronwyn; Browne, Jenny; Gannon, Susanne; Honan, Eileen and Somerville, Margaret (2005) Embodied women at work in neoliberal times and places, Gender, Work and Organisation 12(4): 343-362.
• Mahtani M (2006) Challenging the Ivory Tower: Proposing anti-racist geographies within the academy. Gender, Place, Culture 13(1): 21-25.

Many thanks to Ruth Healey and Jo Norcup for organising this very successful event.

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