Dear colleagues,
There are just two weeks left to propose a paper for the Tallinn EASA
panel *Polar
mobilities: Resilience and transformations*. This panel takes a broad look
at mobilities in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, and seeks a range of
papers that can expand upon how mobilities are framed by considering
movements among people, animals, things and ideas in 'remote' and often
extreme geographic spaces. Full abstract below.
*Polar mobilities: Resilience and transformations *
13th EASA Biennial Conference, Tallinn University, Estonia. 31 July - 3
August, 2014
*Convenors*
Simone Abram (Durham University)
Roger Norum (University of Leeds)
David Picard (CRIA-FCSH/UNL)
*Abstract*
The earth's polar regions attract particular kinds of mobility, from
everyday livelihoods to metropolitan exploration, commercial adventures or
particular kinds of tourist venture. The panel asks how these mobilities
are driven by and are affected by growing global imaginaries of the polar
regions in the context of:
-- a proliferation of transport, hunting, information and communication
technologies;
-- hypermediatisation of the polar regions as metaphors for (or indicators
of) environmental change in general;
-- the emergence of new forms of (legal) advocacy defining the Poles as
quasi-sacred 'wilderness';
-- melting ice easing access for extractive industries, ensuing land and
resource tenure conflicts and a steady growth of eco-tourism.
The panel seeks to address questions such as: Do the polar regions afford
particular instances of indigenous tourism? What is the significance of
highlighting environmental questions through exploratory travel or
politically motivated journeys? What is the legacy of richly imagined (and
often heavily mythologised) Arctic and Antarctic natures? What kinds of
mobilities do different actors adopt? And how are everyday mobilities of
polar inhabitants affected by circulating global imaginaries? The papers in
this panel also consider how different mobilities are entangled, for
example the ways in which science and tourist mobilities are facilitators
of (and facilitated by) mobilities in military and geopolitical spheres.
We particularly welcome papers that explore collaborative engagements
between a wide range of actors (e.g. whalers, hunters, indigenous
activists, scientists, polar bears, penguins, fjords and icebergs) and that
engage with an anthropology of/in the Anthropocene.
Deadline for submission: *27th February 2014*
To propose a paper to this panel, click here
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2014/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=2992.
For other panel/paper details, see
http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2014/cfp.shtml
Please redistribute widely.
Cheers,
Roger
--
*Roger Norum*
DPhil Candidate, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Research Student, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
University of Oxford
+44 (0)7525 006 807
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