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From: Ekaterina Kazurova <[log in to unmask]>, <[log in to unmask]>
Call for papers
Anthropology of professions in Russia.
New and traditional occupations in changing Russia: social anthropological
approach
Conference in Saratov, Russia, 29-30 September 2005
Russian Sociological Society (ROS)
Saratov State Technical University
Department of social anthropology and social work
Center of social policy and gender studies
With the support of the Russian Foundation for Humanities.
Thematic priorities of the conference:
-- Politics of professional identity, professionalization of work,
institutionalization of new professions, power of
professionals
- Everyday life of working place, spatial, symbolic and material
organization of work, micro-practices of working activities
- Anthropology of professional communities, rites and traditions, folklore,
inside life of the communities of the professionals
- Labor relations in the working place, power and communication in everyday
life practices of occupational groups
- Traditions and innovations in the working activity in new and traditional
occupational groups
- The role of culture: issues of organizational, working and professional
culture
- Gender dimension: "male" and "female" occupations, gender roles in the
working place, formal and informal channels of knowledge transmission, tacit
knowledge of the professionals
- Methodology of anthropological studies of work, professions, organizations
and employment, application of ethnographical methods in studying of
contemporary Russia's society
The papers based on ethnographical research are especially
welcome.
Time table
Abstract submission deadline is the 1st of August by email.
The Organizational Committee's decision concerning the selection of papers
for the conference
program is to be made by the 20th of August
Abstracts up to 1500 words should be submitted in MS Word format and include
title of paper, information about the
author (First name, Surname, contact info, place of work), short description
of the paper's content, selected
references.
Papers presented at the conference will be published in a collection of
articles.
For the details about the seminar and submission of abstracts please contact
Conference Manager Ekaterina
Kazurova by e-mail: <[log in to unmask]>, copy to <[log in to unmask]>
Please pay attention: Organizational Committee cannot reimburse
participants' expenses to come to the
conference. The participants are asked to search for their own funds.
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