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14th EASA Biennial Conference: Anthropological legacies and human futures
20-23 July 2016, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
*Mobility, Precarity, and the Activation of Kinship and Intimacy [ANTHROMOB]*
<http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4203>
*Convenors*
Valerio Simoni (The Graduate Institute Geneva)
Nadine Fernandez (SUNY/Empire State College)
Anna Irmina Zadrozna (Yeditepe University)
*Chair*
Adriana Piscitelli (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
*Short Abstract*
This panel reconsiders the role of intimacy and kinship in the (re)configuration of
mobile people's life-courses, trajectories, and livelihoods when faced with
unprecedented, highly policed cross-border movements around the world, and a
range of 'crisis' situations.
*Long Abstract*
With unprecedented, highly policed cross-border movements, and a range of 'crisis'
situations, the relationship between precarity and mobility is increasingly
apparent. This panel reconsiders the role of intimacy and kinship in the
(re)configuration of mobile people's life-courses and livelihoods amid
precarity. Precarity, an outcome of the unequal distribution of
vulnerabilities, is linked to structural conditions of crisis, limited
opportunities for making a living, as well as the status of mobile populations
confronting different immigration regimes. While narratives of crisis have
become ubiquitous, its different manifestations merit anthropological scrutiny,
as do their connections with intimate and kin formations. Encouraging
reflection on kinship and intimacy, their temporal dimensions, and their
punctual activation in mobile people's lives, the panel highlights the roles
and effects of kinship and intimacy in imagining and designing a future deemed
worth living. We thus uncover the connections between the (re/des)activation of
intimacies and kinship ties (e.g. with friends, lovers, family members, foreign
spouses) on the one hand, and issues of status, citizenship, well-being, and
livelihood on the other. When life projects and the establishment of continuity
can be difficult to imagine and sustain, kin and intimate relations may provide
new ways for people to manage, advance, and create meaning in their lives,
bridging their past with a (still uncertain) future. On the other hand, there
relations and ties can become a driving force for migration, with uncertainty
as more appealing when confronted with obligations towards one's kin.
*Propose paper*
<http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4203>
Deadline: 15 February 2016
*General instructions and rules*
<http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2016/cfp.shtml>
*General information on the conference*
<http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2016/>
Valerio Simoni, PhD.
- Research Fellow (SNSF)
The Graduate Institute
Geneva, Switzerland
- Research Associate
Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA-IUL)
Lisbon, Portugal
http://graduateinstitute.academia.edu/ValerioSimoni
Recently published:
2016. Tourism and Informal Encounters in Cuba. Oxford and New York: Berghahn
Books.
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