Dear All,
Please find below the call for papers for our panel at the 2015 SIEF
Congress in Zagreb, Croatia. The deadline for submissions is midnight,
January 14th, 2015.
Please feel free to circulate the CFP to anyone who might be interested.
Thank you and best regards,
Sahil Warsi (SOAS, UK) and Milena Belloni (University of Trento, Italy)
http://nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3508
*Refugee Visions and Realities: Interpreting Time with People on the Move*
Short Abstract
This panel aims to investigate how refugees conceive and make sense of time
while inhabiting various contexts where they are "in transit", and how
different imaginations of the past and the future influence their present
lives.
Long Abstract
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future
is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved
on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity" - ,Augustine of
Hippo
This panel aims to investigate how refugees on the move make sense of
"time" and how different imaginations of the past and future influence
refugees' present lives. The reality of refugees living in a condition of
transit, perceived or real, is often shaped by institutionally framed
futures (repatriation, integration, resettlement) and requirements of
demonstrable pasts (persecution, traumatic events). As part of navigating
their present realities and coping with challenges of daily life, refugees
are themselves engaged in achieving desired futures often imagined
"elsewhere", and in managing relationships with past homelands, travels,
etc. Drawing on theoretical debates about refugees' movements, aspirations,
and imagination (e.g. Malkki 1995; Appadurai 2004; Horst 2006), this panel
invites original ethnographic contributions which explore conceptions and
practices through which refugees make sense of their "time" while living on
the move. Presenters are encouraged to investigate the interaction of
imagination and reality through questions that might include: What future
projects, memories, and selves are engendered in refugees' movements among
various geographical contexts? How are refugees' everyday practices
productive of or tempered by imagination of the future or the past? What
implications can the focus on conceptions of time have for ethnographic
research on refugees and migration?
http://nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3508
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