*Call for papers*
*Trade, transit and travel: knots of global capital in passageways and
buffer-zones*
*One-day Symposium*
*11 May 2020*
*University of Helsinki, Finland*
Transit, Trade and Travel (TTT) is a research project funded by the Academy
of Finland which focusses on transit zones and crossroads areas of the
Mediterranean. We concentrate on places that can be seen as
spaces-in-between, temporal and spatial “knots” that exist within and
between different chains of global circulation. We are interested in
producing ethnographic insights onto how different ‘locating regimes’ (from
bureaucratic techniques and regulations to financial institutions, from
language to religious structures, from agricultural practices to transport
infrastructure and digital technologies) contribute to produce or mitigate
spatio-temporal frictions and ‘tensions’ in these kinds of cross-road
spaces. Often located near a border or a passageway, zones of transit,
trade and travel constitute particularly fertile ground to explore tensions
between different locating regimes and how they generate meaning and value
in these particular zones.
This one-day symposium aims to open up this discussion to geographical
regions within and beyond the Mediterranean, and to create a forum where
researchers across the world working on other areas broadly associated with
notions of crossroads, passageways and buffer zones can meet and share
ideas. We are interested in papers in anthropology and cognate disciplines
that explore, from an ethnographic and theoretical perspective, how the
in-betweenness of these areas shapes and is shaped by experiences and
practices of trade, transit and travel, both on the macro-scale (e.g.
export processing zones, free ports and other trade hubs) and on the
micro-scale (e.g. street markets, bazaars, etc). We are interested in the
logistics and logics by which these places operate, but also in the
experiences, activities, and histories of those who inhabit them and bring
them to life.
Some of the topics and questions we wish to address during the symposium
are:
- Infrastructures, beliefs, historical and geopolitical narratives
constituting particular areas as passageways/buffer-zones/spaces-in-between
- Emerging practices of trade, transit and travel in areas defined or
experienced as cross-roads/buffer-zones/spaces-in-between
- How do places that were not previously recognised as connecting hubs,
cross-roads or buffer zones come to acquire such status? What does that
mean to the activities and experiences of those who inhabit these places?
- What happens when places recognised as connecting hubs, cross-roads or
buffer zones come to lose such status? How does that affect the activities
and experiences of those who inhabit these places?
- What processes, tensions and contradictions are rendered visible as
these places become more or less (dis)connected from other places in the
world?
To submit your application please send a single PDF file containing a
300-word abstract, a short bio, and your contact details to
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**The deadline for submissions is 30 January 2020****
For questions or further information, please contact Patricia Scalco (
[log in to unmask]) or Laia Soto Bermant (
[log in to unmask]).
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