*Call for Papers*
*(P10) Temporalities of Migration, Mobility and Displacement*
ASA2016: Footprints and Futures: the Time of Anthropology
Durham University, 4-7 July 2016
http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa16/index.shtml
Convenors:
Fiorenza Picozza (King's College)
Stefano Portelli (University of Rome)
*Short Abstract*
The panel addresses the temporal dimension of mobility and displacement,
interrogating different variations of speed as both results of power
relations and of strategies deployed by those displaced, specifically
exploring the ethnographic limits and demands of capturing the dimension
of temporality.
*Long Abstract*
Studies of migration, mobility and displacement often lack focus on the
link between the management of space and the management of time
(Griffiths et al 2013). Beyond its spatiality, power is exercised as a
temporal force on mobile/displaced bodies, most notably in the
experience of waiting (Khosravi 2014). Regimes of asylum, detention and
deportation act on migrant bodies as temporal power, decelerating
circulation and disassociating the body from its productivity
(Papadopoulos et al 2008). Migrants and refugees spend months, years,
sometimes entire lives, in secluded or marginal spaces, liminal to the
economic and political order. However, transnational migration is not
the sole context in which the relationship between power, the state and
the production of temporalities can be analysed; forced expulsions from
urban environments, such as those produced by gentrification and urban
renewal, also posit questions regarding the exclusion from space and
from the perceived "normal" flow of time (Kern 2015). Yet, the very
spaces of spatial exclusion, such as camps or the new "planned"
neighbourhoods can harbour new practices that challenge and subvert both
the space and time of seclusion they aimed to enforce.
With the aim of bringing time "back in" in the anthropology of
spatial practices, this panel opens a space for discussion on the
temporalities of mobility and displacement, with a particular focus on
the challenges of capturing temporality within ethnographic description.
We particularly welcome papers that ethnographically enquire into how
power channels, disrupt, decelerate or speed up circulation; but also
into the strategies deployed by those displaced in order to produce
contesting temporalities.
Proposals should be submitted through the website below from NOW until
*15 FEBRUARY*:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4392
Proposals must consist of:
- a paper/contribution/poster title
- the name/s and email address/es of author/s
- a short abstract of fewer than 300 characters
- a long abstract of fewer than 250 words
Further details about submitting abstracts are here:
http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa16/cfp.shtml
-- Fiorenza Picozza PhD Candidate Department of Geography King's College
London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
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