Dear Colleagues
We cordially invite your paper proposals to the panel *The roads most
travelled: ethnographic approaches to buffer zones, crossroads and spaces
in-between*, to take place at the CASCA/IUAES Conference in Ottawa, Canada, 2-7
May 2017.
Deadline for abstract submission is 19th of December 2016.
You can *submit an abstract* by following this link:
http://nomadit.co.uk/cascaiuaes2017/suite/panels.php5?PanelID=5394
*Panel Title: The roads most travelled: ethnographic approaches to buffer
zones, crossroads and spaces in-between. *
Convenors
Sarah Green (University of Helsinki)
Brenda Chalfin (University of Florida)
Patricia Scalco (University of Helsinki)
Laia Soto Bermant (University of Helsinki)
*Short Abstract*
The world is full of crossroads, buffer zones and transit areas, places
through which people, things, non-human animals and ideas pass in order to
get somewhere else. This panel focuses on changes in the relative value and
significance of such locations, given changes in how things move.
*Long Abstract:*
This panel seeks to engage researchers working in/on crossroads, buffer
zones and places where roads actually cross (e.g. between north and south,
east and west, etc.), and where transit, trade and travel are organised and
managed as, for instance, in tourism, trading, or market centres. The panel
aims to move away from identity-centred approaches by focusing on how the
relative value of these places is changing as new political and economic
configurations come about, and how these changes affect the everyday life
of the people who dwell in them.
While much is known about the way globalization, transnationalism, and
related technological, political and economic changes are altering
relations across the globe and affecting people's identities, this panel
seeks to question how such changes affect the relative value of being
located somewhere in particular - a question of changes in where things
are, rather than who or what they are.
The panel invites contributions that analyse the dynamics of buffer zones,
crossroads and spaces in-between and that give ethnographic accounts of
relations and separations between these places and elsewhere, and how that
affects everyday life in such places. These regimes may involve the working
of political borders as well as commercial, legal, informal,
infrastructural, financial, kinship-based, and religious structures and
social relations.
We look forward to receiving your paper proposals.
With best wishes
Patricia Scalco
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Patricia D. Scalco
Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Social Research - Social Anthropology
University of Helsinki
Helsinki
Finland
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