Call for papers:
=84Virtual Diasporas=93
A workshop within the section for migration studies at the biannual
conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft f=FCr V=F6lkerkunde (DGV Tagung),
October 1999, Heidelberg
Organization/Chair: Prof. Dr. Waltraud Kokot,
Institut f=FCr Ethnologie, Universit=E4t Hamburg
Dr. Andreas Ackermann,
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut,
Wissenschaftszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen, Essen
Current debates on globalization, transnationalism, cultural hybridity
and diasporas imply a wide range of theoretical and methodological
challenges for anthropology. This workshop will focus specially on the
analysis of uses and meanings of new forms of communication, as the
internet and audiovisual media, in the construction and maintenance of
diasporic identities. Contributions based on current field research in
different types of diasporas are explicity encouraged.
A wide range of questions may be addressed within this framework:
? Which groups within a given diaspora can be identified as making use
of the `new media=B4?
? What types of audiences are being addressed?
? What types of content (symbolic and otherwise) are being transported
by those media? Which, if any, is the relationship between content and
form?
? Can the use of new media be linked to changes of power structures
whithin a given community (i.e. the rise of new elites)?
? Which methodological problems (and solutions) may arise from the
investigation of new media and the internet?
? What are the implications of social links whithin `virtual space` for
the meaning of locality and the definition of diaspora?
In order to facilitate communication and discussion among participants,
all papers will be circulated before the beginning of the workshop. Only
the main theses will be presented at the meeting, which will focus on
the dicussion of theoretical and methodological issues.
Abstracts (not exceeding one page) should be sent to either of the
organizers until June 15, 1999, the final papers should be handed in by
August 25 and will be circulated in September.
This workshop is being organizied in collaboration with the
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut am Wissenschaftszentrum
Nordrhein-Westfalen and is thematically and organizationally connected
to the planned conference on
Identity, Locality and Diaspora
at Hamburg University, 11. =96 13. Feb. 2000.
Please adress questions, abstracts or articles by E-mail or surface mail
to:
Prof. Dr. Waltraud Kokot
Institut f=FCr Ethnologie
Universit=E4t Hamburg
Rothenbaumchaussee 64 a
20148 Hamburg
Tel: 040 42838 5741
Fax: 040 42838 6288
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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