Bodies, Relations and Spatiality Blog

Welcome to the Playground

conferencepeeps — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:06:43 +0000

This website is the outcome of a small gathering of postgraduates at the University of Sheffield, Department of Geography (link to be added soon) on September 4^th 2008 addressing the theme of ‘bodies, relations and spatiality’ (Click here: Workshop outline)

These themes have gained increasing currency and relevance across the humanities and social sciences and yet they are represented or put into practice in a huge variety of ways. We therefore decided to hold a workshop as a group of postgraduates to create a space to question these themes along with interdisciplinary connections/divides surrounding them.

This website is an outcome of these discussions and aims to offer a place where participants can stay in touch, and invite along other people along who are interested in notions of bodies and spatiality as well as questioning how these (don’t) relate.

The site also aims to provide:

Notice of upcoming relevant events around the country and within the University of Sheffield
Reading suggestions and reviews to generate discussion/debate
A forum to arrange further meetings, reading groups and a follow-up event next year.

Feel free to post comments, questions, queries or provocations related to your research, book and conference reviews, notice of upcoming events, recommendations for texts or anything else you can think of.

Contributions can also be sent to conferencepeeps@yahoo.co.uk

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The organisers in all their glory.

Contact Details

conferencepeeps — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:52:57 +0000

For admin issues with this website, please contact conferencepeeps@yahoo.co.uk

Individual emails are as follows

Nissa Ramsay: n.ramsay@shef.ac.uk
Anna Krzywoszynska: ggp07adk@shef.ac.uk
Annabel Terrill: ggp07at@shef.ac.uk
Victoria Hasson: victoriahasson@googlemail.com
Paul Ashmore : paul.ashmore@shef.ac.uk
Thom Sullivan: t.sullivan@shef.ac.uk
Helen Holmes: h.holmes@shef.ac.uk
Jenny Carton: j.carton@shef.ac.uk

Bibliography and Suggested Readings

conferencepeeps — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:40:18 +0000

We’ll put our faves up here soon, suggestions are very welcome – especially from other disciplines to challenge these approaches to bodies, relations and spatiality

These are from the workshop we organised

Law, J. (2004) After Method: Mess in Social Science Research. pp 1- 15
Hinchcliffe, S., Kearns, M. and Whatmore, S. (2005) Urban Wild Things: a Cosmopolitical Experiment. Environment and Planning D. Society and Space 23(5)pp.643-58
Pinder, D. (2005) Arts of Urban Exploration. Cultural Geographies 12(4)pp.383–411
Mol, A and Law, J. (2004) Embodied Action, Enacted Bodies. The Example of Hypoglycaemia. Body and Society 10 (2/3) pp. 43-62