I am convening a special session at this year’s Canadian Association of Geographers conference, being held at Carleton University from May 20-23, 2025! Please see below for the abstract and details on submission, and shoot me an email for more information.

Call for papers – Canadian Association of Geographers 2025 Conference Themed Session 

Title: Geographies of care and mobility 

Geographers have long been concerned with the spatialities of care work and caregiving, particularly among women and in urban areas. Moreover, recent forays into the socio-spatial dynamics of the work that reproduces human life on a day-to-day basis engage with the notion of an ‘ethic of care’, which centers caring in everyday life and recognizes it as a complex process that requires a series of moral judgements about those who care and those who are cared for (roles that are interchangeable across space and time.) This, and the mobilities ‘turn’ in geography, has influenced new research into the mobilities of care, which encourages critical perspectives on the systems that (do not) sustain the movements that carers embark on to provide unpaid care while navigating myriad economic and interpersonal needs. While research at the intersection of these fields has identified the differential mobility patterns of carers (e.g., trip chaining and carers’ non-linear movements), methodological questions, transnational perspectives, and insights from the geographies of aging remain.

This themed session calls for original research, review articles and innovative knowledge outputs that explore diverse, critical approaches to studying the confluence of caregiving and mobility. Topics include but are not limited to:

• Relationship between care, housing and mobility
• Innovative methods for studying the geographies of care and mobility
• Approaches to mainstreaming an ethic of care in research practice
• Caring and mobility beyond the Global North
• Youth and elderly carers’ experiences at the intersection of transportation and care
• Care and mobility in and beyond the urban

This themed session calls for academic papers and other knowledge outputs from researchers, community organizers and carers interested in transportation as an infrastructure of care. The session invites interested participants to consider how different types of mobilities shape and are informed by carers’ identities and their experiences of the everyday.

Please submit your abstracts for this session here, indicating that your submission is for the Geographies of care and mobility special session. For more information, please contact Eyram Agbe at eyramagbe@cmail.carleton.ca.