Call for Papers (CFP): “Geographies of Care: Relationality, Embodiment, and Re-imagining Care Praxis Juntxs”
This Call for Papers aligns with the AAG 2027 theme, “Grounded Relations and Desirable Futures,” considering how Latinx peoples, Latinx geographers, and Latinx geographies embody, practice, and pursue spaces, places, and landscapes of care, healing, and accountability as a politics of “desirable futures”. We invite contributions that reimagine and transform the ethical and political relations we hold to one another and to the places we inhabit, write, and think from and with. At the intersection of Latinx Studies and Geography, Latinx Geographies offers methods and conceptual tools to examine layered histories of injury and harm across time and space. It also illuminates how communities in both the global north and south envision and craft worlds beyond those born from colonial capitalism. In doing so, the field has advanced geographies of accountability, care, healing, and repair within and beyond the state, formal institutions, and academy.
We seek papers that explore the following questions: Why should we care about care? What is distinct, if anything, about Latinx geographies of care? What role does and can care hold within and across Latinx communities in Turtle Island and Abya Yala? How do Latinx peoples build and embody geographies of care amidst displacement and dispossession? How do they negotiate and redefine the ethics of living on occupied and stolen lands and waters? And, lastly, what lessons do Latinx geographies hold for reimagining a care praxis among and between human and nonhuman beings?
This Call for Papers invites empirical or theoretical papers addressing any of, but not exclusively, the questions and related themes listed below. Please submit your 250-word abstract via Google Form by Thursday, October 8, 2026. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Jimena Perez (jimena_perez@berkeley.edu) or Carla Macal (cmacal@oxy.edu).
- Imagining and embodying alternative relationalities to place and the human-nonhuman inhabitants of it as part of a praxis of care, repair, and healing;
- Centering embodied and collective knowledge production and praxis;
- Reckoning with the co-optation and weaponization of care and repair under colonial-capitalism;
- Exploring the role(s) of care in building geographies of repair and reciprocity;
- Movidas and movements of care across time, space, and scale;
- Racialized, gendered, classed, and intergenerational experiences of care and caregiving;
- The labor of care; monetizing, exploiting, and devaluing care work;
- Communities of care in migration, diaspora, COVID-19, environmental racism, climate change, and disaster recovery;
- Spaces/landscapes of Care (broadly defined): Domestic spaces, hospices, art therapy, community centers, gardens, farms, healing circles, etc, where health knowledge is shared, and everyday repair and healing support happens outside traditional institutions
- Reproductive care and reproductive justice;
- Landscapes of inequities and slow violence and how communities are organizing through a framework of care to combat this harm;
- Queer and Trans Latinx relationships to care, repair, health, healing, and more just futures;
- Disabled Latinx peoples’ relationships to care, repair, health, and healing;
- Landscapes of care as more than clinical;
- Politics of care; experiences and methods of receiving as well as giving care;
- Spaces/landscapes of accountability for the harm Latinxs, as multiply colonized people, have enacted or been complicit in;
- Transgenerational trauma and the passing down of healing knowledge;
- Land and body connections; what happens to the land, happens to us, vice versa; healing the land, healing the world
