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Dear colleagues, The deadline for submitting paper proposals for next EASA conference (Stockholm, August 14-17) is approaching. We would like to renew our invitation to send submissions to our panel "Stuck in a mobile world: the agentive potential of immobility", which considers uneventfulness and agency in a world of mobilities. https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6666 Below you can find more information and the abstract of our panel. Thank you, best wishes, Cristiano Lanzano - on behalf of the panel convenors *** Convenors • Alessandro Gusman (University of Turin) • Anna Baral (Uppsala University) • Cristiano Lanzano (The Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala) Short abstract Mobility cannot be separated from the "stuckness" caused by structural constraints, lack of resources or opportunities. Uneventful as it may be, stuckness is full of agentive potential, anticipation and imagination. The panel explores its embeddedness in mobility, rather than their mutual exclusion. Long abstract Anthropology and social sciences have predominantly focused on mobility in the past three decades - what has been defined a "new mobilities paradigm" (Sheller, Urry 2006). However, it has also become evident how a mobility paradigm cannot avoid confronting the issue of immobility. "Stuckness" is not exceptional, and it should not be seen as the opposite of "mobility", but rather as a litmus test for how the high local and global mobility in the contemporary world is unevenly distributed, and often hindered by structural factors. It is even more relevant for those who aspire to transcend it, but who lack resources to do it, thus experiencing a sort of "displacement in place" (Hammar 2014). "Involuntary immobility" (Burrell 2012) is worsened by the media that expose vulnerable and marginal individuals to the imaginary of a mobile world. Through a focus on stuckness rather than on the "critical events" (Das 1995) constituting the mobility process, it is possible to appreciate the possibilities of agency, navigation and control that individuals have on an (apparently) uneventful time, in the everyday and the mundane in which people image, anticipate and project themselves towards mobility. Against this background, the panel explores stuckness in its embeddedness in mobility, rather than considering them as mutually exclusive. The panel invites ethnographic contributions on temporal, geographical and social immobility that explore its relevance for agency and imagination. ************************************************************* * 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: * * https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/Anthropology-Matters * * 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 click here: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS&A=1 ***************************************************************