<div dir="ltr"><div>FYI, apologies for x-posting,<br><br></div>For the next American Association of Geographers Conference in San Francisco, we are organizing this panel session that could be of your interest:<br><br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">AAG 2016 CfP: Sharing in/on
sharing: socio-spatial, temporal and technological transitions </span></p>
<p style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><a name="_GoBack"></a><a href="http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/call_for_papers"><span style="mso-bookmark:_GoBack"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(17,85,204);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" lang="EN-GB">AAG Annual Meeting</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:
_GoBack"></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" lang="EN-GB">, San Francisco 29 March - 2 April 2016</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
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<p style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" lang="EN-GB">Organisers:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">Mike Crang (Durham
University, UK), Helen Jarvis (Newcastle University, UK), Ramon Ribera-Fumaz
(Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">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). <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>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. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">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 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Airbnb</i>,
for instance, is implicated in exacerbating rising prices and evictions.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Airbnb</i>
originated in San Francisco and is valued at $25 billion. San Francisco is also
home to the influential non-profit online magazine <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Shareable</i> 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 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Shareable</i>, 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.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In particular we
seek to explore:</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">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?</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">To
what extent does the sharing transformation offer solutions for social justice?
Community resilience? Carbon-neutral one-planet sustainable development? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">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:</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">The
sharing economy and the geographies of community</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">Ways
of ‘living together’ (intentionally sharing space and time) as a path out of
capitalism</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">The
non-economic ‘intangible’ processes and attributes of collaborative networks
that formal economic modelling and city planning and governance tend to
overlook</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">Sharing
and conviviality, proximity and trust</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">Structure
and agency: individual ‘choice’ and structural barriers to alternative ways of
living</span></p>
<p style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" lang="EN-GB">Submission Procedure:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" lang="EN-GB">Please send your abstract of 250 words or fewer to:</span></p>
<p style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:Helen.jarvis@ncl.ac.uk"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Helen.jarvis@ncl.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" lang="EN-GB">We particularly
encourage contributions from doctoral students, activists, practitioners and
early-career researchers, from anywhere in the world. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" lang="EN-GB">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 <a href="http://aag.org">aag.org</a>. </span></p>
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