Dear Colleagues, there seems to have been a problem of formatting with the
previous announcement of this CFP, so here it goes again.
Our apologies for this and for cross-posting.
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Dear Colleagues,
We invite paper proposals for the panel
“Migration desire: Uncovering the global imaginaries and subjectivitites of
(im)mobility”
To be held at the ASA Conference (Association of Social Anthropologists of
the UK and Commonwealth)
University of Exeter, 13th-16th April 2015
Short Abstract
The panel addresses the moralities, aspirations and claims of belonging that
underpin migratory aspirations and trajectories, exploring the global
imaginaries, subjective orientations, and power dimensions of (im)mobility,
and considering the ethnographic demands they place on anthropologists.
Long Abstract
In recent years, mobility has taken on a new centrality in the way people
from across the world voice their personal and collective expectations.
Doing anthropology today means to increasingly meet this relatively new and
generalized "desire of elsewhere" through which hopes of success and search
for opportunities are expressed. Whereas local conditions remain essential
to understand the widespread wish to leave, these same conditions are
increasingly measured against the standards of a paradigmatic "global form
of life", one moulded upon a series of hegemonic models shaping the
benchmarks of well-being and happiness on a wide-reaching scale, and which
challenges the anthropologist's longstanding fascination with difference.
The impact of these models and their role in forging contemporary
"expectations of modernity" raises questions about how contemporary forms of
power and global imaginaries produce aspirations for change, as expressed,
for instance, in the longing for freedom from traditional obligations and
claims for membership in a global society (Ferguson 2006; Piot 2010). The
panel welcomes contributions that address the moralities, aspirations and
claims of belonging underpinning people's migratory aspirations and
trajectories. The aim is to explore mobility's entanglements with global
images, local values and personal expectations, and to examine how the
motivations associated with movement reinforce or subvert hegemonic
constructions of power, subjectivity, and inequality in the contemporary
world, (re)drawing lines of commonality and exclusion. This, in turn, will
help us consider the kinds of theoretical commensalities and methodological
mutualisms that people's desires to move- as ethnographic demands placed on
anthropologists - call for.
Convenors
Valerio Simoni (The Graduate Institute, Geneva)
Francesco Vacchiano (Institute of Social Sciences, ICS-ULisboa, Lisbon)
To submit a paper in this panel, please follow this link:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3391
The Call for Papers closes on the 1st of December 2014.
We look forward to receiving your proposals,
Francesco Vacchiano & Valerio Simoni
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Francesco Vacchiano
PsyD; PhD Anthropology
Research Fellow ICS -UL - Lisbon
Member IMEDES / UAM - Madrid
Member Centro Frantz Fanon - Turin
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