FYI, apologies for x-posting, For the next American Association of Geographers Conference in San Francisco, we are organizing this panel session that could be of your interest: AAG 2016 CfP: Sharing in/on sharing: socio-spatial, temporal and technological transitions AAG Annual Meeting <http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/call_for_papers>, San Francisco 29 March - 2 April 2016 *Organisers:* Mike Crang (Durham University, UK), Helen Jarvis (Newcastle University, UK), Ramon Ribera-Fumaz (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Human geography scholarship increasingly deploys the language and practice of ‘sharing’; notably in debates on social and environmental justice; with respect to traditional and digital sharing economies; the ‘conviviality’ sought in efforts to open up public space for civic engagement; and in cooperation and collaboration between academics, activists and practitioners. Thus Popke (2006) calls for an expansion of ethical significance (and responsible action) to all aspects of daily life and to emphasise connectedness to others based on ‘mutual obligations and relations of trust’ (McDowell 2004: 157; Lawson 2007: 3), ‘cooperation rather than competition’ and ‘interdependence over individuation’ (Smith 2004: 11). Yet, from classical anthropology we learn that sharing represents an ‘integration of intimate economies’ that cannot be reduced to reciprocity or exchange relations alone (Price 1975). Therefore, this session aims to expand the conceptual significance of sharing (goods, services, knowledge, space, time, technology, visions and values), theoretically, empirically and ethically- taking fuller account of intimacy and interdependence. There are many possible futures for a burgeoning sharing economy, some progressive, others reinforcing the deep social divisions and wasteful consumption associated with neoliberal emphasis on market choice, competitiveness and efficiency. It is timely to deconstruct the tensions and contractions bound up with interdependent networks of peer-to-peer and face-to-face sharing. This is especially so at this AAG because it is to be held in San Francisco at a time when the ‘success’ of the digital home-sharing market, notably *Airbnb*, for instance, is implicated in exacerbating rising prices and evictions. *Airbnb* originated in San Francisco and is valued at $25 billion. San Francisco is also home to the influential non-profit online magazine *Shareable* which provides a hub of grassroots movements that variously advocate new and expanded sharing economies to address challenges such as climate change, lack of affordable housing, resource depletion and waste. According to *Shareable*, the sharing transformation that is emerging in cities around the world connects communities of interest as varied as the maker movement, collaborative housing, collaborative consumption, solidarity economies, transition towns, degrowth and voluntary simplicity. Acknowledging San Francisco as a provocative reference laboratory on the conference doorstep, this session aims to bring a critical theoretical gaze to claims made by and for a sharing transformation. In particular we seek to explore: · To what extent are we witnessing a reinvention and revival of sharing in our cities? How is this manifest in new and/or progressive ways? · To what extent does the sharing transformation offer solutions for social justice? Community resilience? Carbon-neutral one-planet sustainable development? We invite papers which engage with the tensions and contradictions bound up with the language of sharing and expectations of sharing virtually ‘at scale’ that compete with intimate economies that embed the ‘social architecture’ of sharing in meaningful community relations of place-making. In particular, we invite papers which deal with: · The sharing economy and the geographies of community · Ways of ‘living together’ (intentionally sharing space and time) as a path out of capitalism · The non-economic ‘intangible’ processes and attributes of collaborative networks that formal economic modelling and city planning and governance tend to overlook · Sharing and conviviality, proximity and trust · Structure and agency: individual ‘choice’ and structural barriers to alternative ways of living *Submission Procedure:* Please send your abstract of 250 words or fewer to: [email protected] We particularly encourage contributions from doctoral students, activists, practitioners and early-career researchers, from anywhere in the world. Please send abstracts before 3 October 2015. We will notify contributors of acceptance before 12 October. Please note that all accepted contributors will need to register for the AAG conference at aag.org.