[ecrea] Rural Mythologies - call for submissions

Re-imagining Rural Mythologies
Call for Submissions
6th Nordic Geographers Meeting, Tallinn & Tartu, Estonia, 15 – 19 June 2015

Even in cities, encounters with the countryside texture our daily 
routines. Whether we buy an organic chicken sandwich at lunch-time, wash 
our clothes in ‘Meadow Fresh’ fabric conditioner, or daydream about 
escaping the pressures of modern living amid the beauty, fresh air and 
tranquility of the countryside, popular perceptions of the rural 
permeate our lives. Yet, how do such bucolic notions hold up against 
reality? How, and through which processes, are rural mythologies 
perpetuated? How might binary perceptions of ‘rural’ and ‘urban’ serve 
particular cultural, economic and political agendas, and what role does 
imagination play within social constructions of the countryside?

We propose to explore these questions by convening an interdisciplinary 
seminar, which will bring artists and geographers together with other 
creative practitioners and researchers, from different cultural 
backgrounds, who share an interest in ‘the rural’. We invite papers, 
presentations of artworks, short films, performances and readings, which 
challenge preconceptions about the contemporary countryside by engaging 
with the complexities and contradictions of specific rural places. In 
particular, we aim to examine how imagination and creative work, as a 
means of exploration and documentation, can produce new forms of 
geographical knowledge, which promote more complex and generative 
interpretations of rural environments.

Session organisers: Elaine Speight (University of Central Lancashire), 
Rosemary Shirley (Manchester Metropolitan University), Joanne Lee 
(Nottingham Trent University), Rebecca Chesney (independent artist).

To submit a proposal for the seminar, please complete the online form: 
https://www.frens.info/site/tmpl/reg9_abs_1028.php The deadline for 
proposals is 15th November 2014. For more information, please visit: 
http://www.tlu.ee/en/NGM2015/Conference-information or e-mail Elaine 
Speight: (espeight /at/ uclan.ac.uk)




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