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Dear collegues, please see the following call for papers, which might be of an interest for some of you. Apologies for any cross posting. many greetings, Thea Boldt chair of RN3 of the ESA Email: [log in to unmask] ................................................................................................................. CALL FOR PAPERS FIRST ISA WORLD FORUM OF SOCIOLOGY http://www.isa-sociology.org/barcelona_2008/ ‘Sociological Research and Public Debate’ Barcelona, Spain September 5-8, 2008 …………………………………………………………………………………………………. Research Committee 38 - Biography and Society Main Theme: Biographical Research and its importance for Public Policy and Debate Biographical Research has expanded greatly in research practice in the last twenty years. Not only has it developed in terms of methodological and theoretical sophistication it has also been used to study an increasing range of substantive issues and policy areas. The importance of the ‘voice’ or ‘story’ of differing groups in society is increasingly recognised not only within academic research but more generally, seen as an essential part of societal participation. Programme Organisers: President: Gabriele Rosenthal, University of Goettingen, Germany: [log in to unmask] Vice-President: Brian Roberts, University of Glamorgan, UK: [log in to unmask] Paper Submissions: Please submit by email an Abstract (250 words) of your proposed paper with full Name, Title, Address and Email – by Deadline – December 1st 2007. - To the relevant Session Organiser (below) and Brian Roberts [log in to unmask] Session 1 Title – Gender, Biography and Transnational Practices Organisers: Helma Lutz and Kathy Davis (Joint Session with RC 05 Ethnic, Race and Minority Relations) Please send abstracts to: Helma Lutz : [log in to unmask] and Kathy Davis: [log in to unmask] and Brian Roberts: [log in to unmask] This session explores the genderedness of transnational biographies – that is, biographies which involve multiple border-crossings. In the context of globalization, the rise of information and communications technology, and widespread transnational migration and travel, more and more people are engaging in transnational practices in the field of work, parenting and care relationships, consumer culture, and more. We invite papers which explore these transnational life-styles and practices in individuals’ biographies with a special focus on the role gender plays in shaping these biographies in specific and sometimes unexpected ways. Session 2 Title – Biography For Society: Health, Poverty and Social Policy Organiser – Victoria Semenova, Russia Please send abstracts to: Victoria Semenova: [log in to unmask] and Brian Roberts: [log in to unmask] The session is going to discuss the problems of applying biographical data to more wide social context and social policy: how and for what extent it could be useful for practice, for those who work in the spheres of health and social policy; what is its point of view that makes it special kind of social knowledge and what are its advantages and disadvantages in this aspect; and what makes it important social resource for understanding social reality in different countries. Session 3 Title – Professional Identities – Biography and Life Experience Organiser – Henning Salling Olesen, University of Roskilde, Denmark. Please send abstracts to: Henning Salling Olesen: [log in to unmask] and Brian Roberts: [log in to unmask] This session intends to attract papers of a theoretical nature as well as specific empirical work dealing with professional identity of particular groups or in particular situations. The focus should be on the significance of life history contexts for professional learning and identity building, and the interpretation of this by professionals themselves. Session 4 Title – Biographical approaches and the study of Youth Organiser: Vasintha Veeran, University of Galway and Michaela Koettig, University of Goettingen, Germany Please send abstracts to: Vasningtha Veeran [log in to unmask] and Michaela Koettig: [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] and Brian Roberts: [log in to unmask] Youth is a phase of development, which is variously experienced locally, nationally and globally. It is generally conceived of as a period of "storm and stress". Moreover, it has been identified in the life course of human beings as fraught with dilemmas around identity, and questions about "where do I belong". In addition, much of the debates around youth illustrate dichotomized Western/non western conceptualizations. Evident in this dichotomy is the lack of a significant debate on the presence of ethnicity and cultural factors in the construction of the concept "youth". The complex interplay of culture, social class, language, ethnicity, gender, geographic location etc. is said to impact significantly on this life stage transition. In this session we would like to invite papers focusing on life experiences and constructions of belonging: how youth construct their sense of belonging through, ethnicity, youth movements, political groups and other organizational affiliations. Other lived experiences, which also impact and influence this sense of belonging, include migration, nationalism and social exclusion. This session will focus on a range of factors that contribute to the development of these constructions of belonging and the various manner in which they become embedded and generated in the course of this life stage. Session 5 Title Biographical and feminist methods in a global framework (Joint Session with RC 32 Women and Society) Organiser: Marilyn Porter, Memorial University, Canada Please send abstracts to: Marilyn Porter: [log in to unmask] and Brian Roberts: [log in to unmask] This joint session (RC38 and RC32) will bring together different perspectives on how feminist thought has influenced biographical methods and vice versa. In particular it will focus on the problems of how theory can sometimes get in the way of understanding how people (women and men) understand their own lives and how they communicate that understanding in biographical interviews. Session 6 Title: ‘Turning Points’ in Biographical theory and analysis Organiser: Feiwel Kupferberg, Malmo University, Sweden Please send abstracts to: Feiwel Kuperferberg: [log in to unmask] and Brian Roberts [log in to unmask] The concept of "turning points" was introduced by Anselm Strauss in Mirrors and Masks (1959). This session invites both theoretical papers elaborating explicitly on the concept and empirical papers where the biographical analysis is structured around some type of turning point. The idea is to evaluate the concept by an ongoing dialogue between papers, asking questions such as: ‘What does turning points mean in different contexts?’ and ‘Is it possible/ meaningful to try to make a more general definition? Session 7 Title: Ethnictiy, ‘Race’, and Minority Relations - Transnational Identities Organiser: Lena Inowlocki, University of Frankfurt, Germany and Kathy Davis, Utrecht University, Netherlands Please send abstracts to: Kathy Davis: [log in to unmask] and Lena Inowlocki: [log in to unmask] and Brian Roberts: Brian [log in to unmask] In our rapidly globalizing world, societies are characterized by differences and belongings. The multiple belongings of individuals to different collectivities can entail many kinds of ambivalence, strain, and even conflict – for example, the ambivalence of "passing", the suffering from lack of recognition, discrimination and exclusion, and polarized conflicts between majority and minority groups. But hyphenated and transnational belongings of "marginal" men and women to conflicting collectivities can also find an expression in their becoming mediators: interpreters, teachers, or political activists (Stonequist 1937). We invite submissions of biographical analyses of cases with regard to these and related phenomena. ………………………………………………… Additional Joint Sessions with other RCs – these are organised by other RCs as part of their Sessions Joint Session - RC 37 Sociology of Arts/RC38 Biography and Society Title: Biographical Research and Sociology of Art Organiser: Felicia Herrschaft, University of Frankfurt, Germany Please send abstracts to: Felicia Herrschaft: [log in to unmask] and Jeffrey A. Halley (RC37 Programme Director) [log in to unmask] by 15th October 2007 Artists use language in a performative way to express their relation to the artworld. Artistic processes of creating an artwork can be analyzed through their language use and also through the "working alliance" of researchers with artists. Artists can be seen as opening up a world of action in which they build houses for the visitor, who is no longer someone experiencing a work of art but becomes part of an action. In this session, we propose a substantial and methodological reflection on sociology of art, performative social science, visual sociology, and biographical research, to understand the role of research in the art world. Questions to be raised and discussed can include the following: is the artistic biography changing? What kind of "biographical work" do artists do? How do artists reflect the artistic process of creating an artwork? Does a transnational and cosmopolitan concept of life play a role in the art world and how is it expressed? Are there differences in concepts how artists create artworks and how the curator is involved in the artistic process? Very welcome are papers concerning concepts of art form also in African and Asian countries and different regions of the world. ________________________________________________________________________ Bei AOL gibt's jetzt kostenlos eMail für alle. Klicken Sie auf AOL.de um heraus zu finden, was es sonst noch kostenlos bei AOL gibt.