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From: International Society for Environmental Ethics [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ted Toadvine [[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: [ISEE-L] MOTHERING AND THE ENVIRONMENT CONFERENCE....DEADLINE MARCH 1, 2009

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> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> <>Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)
> <> 13th Annual Conference
> <>in conjunction with York University's 50th
> Anniversary Celebration
>
> Mothering and the Environment:
>
> The Natural, The Social, and The Built
>
> October 22-25, 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; 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.
>
>  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: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
> 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
> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> http://www.yorku.ca/arm

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