CALL FOR PAPERS
SIAA (Italian Society for Applied Anthropology) VII annual meeting
Ferrara (Italy). 12-14 December 2019
SESSION
Ethnographic Accounts of Personal Networks
We practice personal networks every day. Each of us is the center of our
own universe. We know who our friends are, how they are connected to each
other, and what kinds of sociability, help, and information they might
provide. But how do such network individuals operate? Personal network
analysis and visualization combined with ethnographic interviews and
participant observation have the potential for researching creatively
integrating ethnography and network analysis, based on the assumption that
it is due to ethnography that we characterize ties. Ethnography permits the
revealing, the unveiling, and the classifying of networks. In this sense,
the information on composition of networks are gathered ethnographically in
a rich and complex fashion due to the extended contact time between
researchers and the community of participants. These ethnographic accounts
of personal networks accurately display social relationships as they come
and go, thus demonstrating their dynamism and mobility.
In this panel session we analyze territorially specific patterns of social
interactions that are bundled in the urban social milieu by inviting papers
that address some of the following:
- communities as networks with a focus on social integration and mobility
of migrants and/or minority groups;
- the role of specialized ties in promoting social support and network
capital;
- how do homogeneous networks are conduit for social control and channels
for the reproduction of inequalities? In other words, how does homophily is
disadvantageous
for lower-status groups?
- linkages over time between life stage experiences, relationships and
changes in personal
networks.
References
Chua, V., J. Madej, and B. Wellman (2011). Personal Communities: The World
According To Me. In J. Scott & P. J. Carrington (Eds), *The SAGE Handbook
of Social Network Analysis*, pp. 101-115. London: Sage Publications.
Domínguez, S. and Hollstein, B. (ed.) (2014). *Mixed methods social
networks research: design and applications*. New York: Cambridge University
Press.
Hannerz, U. (1980). Exploring the City: Inquiries Toward an Urban
Anthropology (chapter 5: “Thinking with Networks”). New York: Columbia
University Press.
McCarty, C., Lubbers, M. J., Vacca, R., & Molina, J. L. (2019). *Conducting
Personal Network Research: A Practical Guide*. New York: Guilford Press.
Wellman, B. (2007). The Network is Personal: Introduction to a Special
Issue of Social Networks. In *Social Networks* 29, 349–356.
ORGANIZERS
Lidia MANZO, [log in to unmask]
Enzo COLOMBO, [log in to unmask]
Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan (Italy)
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The proposal should include both an abstract (max 400 words) and a short
bio (max 250 words).
DEADLINE
14 August 2019
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INFO
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Dr. Lidia Katia C. Manzo
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Università degli Studi di Milano
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