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From: "Emilija Zabiliute" <[log in to unmask]>
I would like to post the following call for proposals:
Dignity - Danish institute against Torture, Aalborg University and
Copenhagen University invite proposals for a conference:
The Stuck, the Mobile and the Dislocated: Reflections on Life in Ghettos,
Slums, Camps and Prisons
The Conference will take place at Aalborg University’s Copenhagen Campus
between October 30 and November 1, 2013.
What is the relationship between ghettoes, camps, places of detention and
prisons? To what extent are these sites entangled and how do they animate
each other empirically and theoretically? How do structures of stuckness,
confinement and mobility impact on the possibilities of making life in
such sites? Can comparing and analyzing these sites together provide new
insights into troubled and precarious lives? These are the questions we
aim to address during this conference, drawing on different sites
characterized by stuckness, mobility and displacement. Take for instance
the relationship between the ghetto and the prison. We might ask what
difference it makes to be confined in a prison or in a ghetto. Are they
radically different forms of confinement or can they be conceptually
compared? Or we might ask about the significance of the circulation of
bodies between ghettos and prisons. What does this circulation mean for
the people in the sites and the sites themselves? What is the relation
between confinement in different forms and citizenship, material
possessions and the state? Similar questions can be asked about relocation
sites, slums and refugee camps. Each of these sites is characterized by
flows and enclosures of people: dislocated, confined, stuck or mobile.
Each is characterized by a tension between the temporary and the
permanent; between exclusion and inclusion; between boundaries and their
transgression. In many ways, what is ultimately at stake seems to be the
connection between involuntary confinement and forced mobility versus
desired place-making and the freedom to move.
In order to explore these issues, we invite papers that inquire into these
different sites with a particular focus on their entangled nature and the
ways in which populations and people are confined, dislocated, mobile or
stuck. These sites include prisons, refugee camps, urban relocation and
resettlement sites, ghettos and urban housing projects, migration
reception centers and other kinds of camps across the global North and
South. In doing so, we aim to bring together scholars from different
analytical fields - criminology, prison studies, urban studies, geography,
conflict studies, migration studies and refugee studies - to engage in an
inter-disciplinary conversation about the possibility of life and power in
sites of confinement.
The conference will combine key note addresses and workshop presentations.
Confirmed keynote speakers will be:
· Mary Bosworth, Faculty of Law, Oxford University
· Elizabeth Povinelli, Department of Anthropology, Columbia
University
· Michel Agier, EHESS, Paris
· Daniel Hoffman, Department of Anthropology, University of
Washington
If you are interested to participate, please register and/or submit an
abstract of no more than 250 words before May 15, 2013 to either Simon
Turner ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) or Steffen Jensen
([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>).
Emilija Zabiliūtė
Ph.D. candidate
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University of Copenhagen
Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
Centre for Global South Asian Studies
Artillerivej 86
Copenhagen S
Denmark
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