REMINDER:
Dear colleagues,
As part of the *Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and
Future* conference, jointly organised by the RAI, the RGS, the British
Academy, the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, and the BM's
Department for Africa, Oceania and the Americas (4 to 7 June 2020), we
would like to invite papers for the panel U04 'Urban borderlands at the
crossroads of anthropology and geography: spatiality, perceptions, and
social reproduction in a multiscalar perspective'.
To submit a proposal, please see the CFP below and send a title, a short
abstract of up to 300 characters and an abstract of 250 words via the
online form *by 8 January 2020* at:
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/rai2020#8364
*Panel Session**: Urban borderlands at the crossroads of anthropology and
geography: spatiality, perceptions and social reproduction in a multiscalar
perspective*
*Convenors: *Olivia Casagrande (The University of Manchester, UK); Viola
Castellano (Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning, BR and Bologna
University, IT); Fabio Vanin (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE)
*Short Abstract: *
Addressing ‘urban borderlands’ as an analytical key concept for
collaborative research practices at the crossroad of anthropology and
geography, this panel focuses on these complex spatial configurations
within metropolitan areas, investigating the physical, social and symbolic
aspects they entail.
*Long Abstract:*
During the last years, the concepts of ‘border’ and ‘borderlands’ have
become key within both geographical and anthropological studies focusing on
frontier, migration, nationalism and (in)security (Andalzúa 1987; Alvarez
1995; Morehouse 2004; Agier 2016). Yet the most interesting feature of
border-lands is the entanglement of their imaginative and concrete aspects,
and the interdisciplinary shift required to grasp their complexity. Not to
be conceived of only as national frontiers and geopolitical borders,
‘borderlands’ represent spaces of friction, encounter and tension, to be
often (but not only) found in the urban realm, unfolding their multiscalar
and social production. Aiming at building a reflection on ‘urban
borderlands’ as an analytical key concept for collaborative research
practices in between geography and anthropology, this panel focuses on
these spatial configurations encompassing physical, social and symbolic
aspects. We welcome contributions from both disciplines engaging with the
transactional nature (Meeus, van Heur & Arnaut, 2019) of urban borderlands,
spaces through which run boundary lines, as well as spaces that are lived
and perceived as borders, without necessarily including physical divides
but still representing areas of transition, friction, tension, mixture and
negotiation. Key for the analysis of how fractures are generated within the
urban realm, engaging with exclusion, marginalization and processes of
precariousness endured by certain population groups, the proposed focus
also allows us to undertake the epistemological and methodological
challenge of building exchanges between geography and anthropology by
taking into consideration spatial, social, perceptual, and dimensions of
the multiscalarity of borderlands and their reproduction within
metropolitan areas.
*Deadline for proposals: 8 January 2020*
*Procedure for submission:*
https://www.therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-geography/call-for-papers
*Questions about submission:*
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Olivia Casagrande, Viola Castellano, Fabio Vanin
Anthropology & Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future
4-7 June 2020, British Museum / RGS / SOAS
https://www.therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-geography
Olivia Casagrande
Marie-Curie Research Fellow
University of Manchester, Manchester (UK)
Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago (Chile)
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