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Dear Friends and Colleagues, (This is a reminder that the deadline for paper proposals is November 7th) We would like to invite paper proposals for our panel at the SIEF conference that will be held in Göttingen, Germany between 26-30 March 2017. Panel Title: Roads, Routes and the Terra Infirma: Distance and Place Making through the Lens of Dwelling-in-Travelling Panel Short Abstract By following James Clifford's definitions of travelling-in-dwelling and dwelling-in-travelling (1997), this panel aims to account for the simultaneous constitution of mobility and stasis through an ethnographic lens on the people who make a living in constant movement. Panel Long Abstract In his seminal work, Routes, James Clifford (1997) suggested to distinguish between travelling-in-dwelling and dwelling-in-travelling. He introduced the former in order to specifically refer to the circulation of cultural narratives and representations, and the ways these are negotiated, adapted, co-produced or rejected. Meanwhile the latter referred to maintaining a life in constant mobility. It was dwelling-in-travelling that Clifford regretted having not elaborated as much as the former, and in this panel we aim to take the issue from where he left - that is to account for simultaneous constitution of mobility and stasis, and to decipher the contexts in which dichotomies of “travelling” and “dwelling” collapse. For this panel, we invite papers based on extended ethnographic research among travelers and dwellers of all sorts. We will primarily put effort to identify various dwellers-in-travelling who make a living in constant mobility such as bus drivers, shuttle-traders, smugglers, refugees or flight crews. We expect to learn more about distance and place making in a terrain unspecified other than routes, roads and networks through which people and things move on and stay or left behind - or a terra infirma that simply cannot be defined by current national borders. However, papers dealing with novel and critical definitions of travellers-in-dwelling are also welcome. This is why, we encourage participants to think about travelling-in-dwelling and dwelling-in-travelling as widely applicable contexts. Yet at the same time, we expect papers to playfully demonstrate the extents to which travelling and dwelling - as separate terms - can be replaced, invalidated and possibly re-defined. To submit a proposal to the panel please follow the link: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2017/panels.php5?PanelID=5047 The deadline for paper proposals is November 7th. Kind Regards, Convenors - S Aykut Ozturk (University College London) [log in to unmask] - Zoe Goodman (School of Oriental and African Studies) [log in to unmask] ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new * * CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com * * an international directory of anthropology researchers * * To unsubscribe: please log on to jiscmail.ac.uk, and * * go to the 'Subscriber's corner' page. * * ***************************************************************