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This is a CFP for special sessions on the “Politics of Displacement, Identity and Urban Citizenship in Migratory Contexts” organized by the RSA Network on the Politics of Displacement, Identity and Urban Citizenship in Migratory Contexts ( https://www.regionalstudies.org/networks/2017-2020-politics-of-displacement-identity-and-urban-citizenship-in-migrat/ )
Regional Studies Association Annual Conference: Pushing Regions beyond their Borders, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 5-7 June.
Deadline for abstract submission is February 28, 2019 (please see the information below).
The ongoing war in Syria and displacement of millions worldwide has shaken citizens around the world, compelling many to offer assistance, while also challenging the universally defined social categories and legal processes that inform these responses. Much of the mainstream (and western oriented) focus on the global ‘refugee crisis’ oscillates between two hegemonic representations: the abstract and individuated ideals of “universal humanity” which inform the political discourse around humanitarianism, and the ethnically and territorially defined categories of national citizenship against which an objectified figure of “the refugee” comes into question. Humanitarian discourses tend to depoliticise the conditions and consequences of displacement by obscuring the already racialised, sexualised, and religious framings of the refugee as an object of compassion or suspicion. In comparison, the state-centered approaches often naturalise the political conditions of borders, territorial divisions, and ethnic boundaries of citizenship that have in fact produced multiple forms of displacement to which the nation-state is now posed as the solution.
In these sessions we aim to bring together researchers in regional studies who offer alternatives to these perspectives by attending to the historical, socio-spatial and religious underpinnings of displacement in their specific contexts of study. We invite abstracts that attend to one or more of the following questions in an attempt to complicate notions of universal humanity and bounded citizenship:
- In what ways has the global ‘refugee crisis’ unsettled and recreated regions, territories and urban spaces?
- How does power operate within mundane social relations and how are these relations interrupted, circumscribed, and transformed by the frames of humanitarianism and national citizenship?
- When do the micro-political relations of hospitality, neighborliness, friendship, and kinship mirror the broader political processes, and what alternatives to policy, if any, do they provide?
- What is the role of space, scale, and place making in addressing displacement as a historically produced and socially configured force of everyday interaction?
- How do displaced people make claims to the city through pluralistic social, political, and religious practices and alternative economic networks?
- What are the impacts of transregional and transnational mobility on ethno-religious identities, urban transformation, and regional and territorial policies in the face of rapidly changing and increasingly precarious lived realities?
If you are interested in presenting a paper in this session, please submit your abstract of no more than 300 words via the RSA platform by 28th February 2019.
https://www.regionalstudies.org/sessions/sdc-special-sessions/#617
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