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*Call for Papers*
*‘Without Let or Hindrance’: Inclusion and its Subversion from the
Medieval to the Modern*
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*A conference organised by the Department of History, Lancaster
University, UK, 7 – 9 July, 2006.*
How have distinctions between inclusion and exclusion, between insider
and outsider, been articulated and subverted during the past millennium?
Papers are invited which interrogate the histories of impersonal social,
political and cultural regimes of recognition and differentiation and,
crucially, consider the material and symbolic subversion of those
regimes. Imitation, mimicry and forgery are integral considerations to
any system which protects the integrity of hierarchies, territories or
social networks. In particular, therefore, this conference will address
the ways in which subversion, deliberate or otherwise, forces systems of
identification to be reformed and elaborated by those who seek to secure
them as viable means of exclusion. Such regimes can also be disrupted
from within, for example when the status of a claimant eclipses
designated proofs of entitlement, an eclipse which renders ‘some more
equal than others’. The conference deliberately embraces a broad
chronological scope with the aim of exploring historical continuities
and disjunctures in the negotiation of hopes and anxieties associated
with mobility and the definition of boundaries.
Original research papers are invited that will allow these questions to
be considered. Papers that address the following themes are
particularly, though not exclusively, invited:
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The material insignia and mediation of recognition in text, image
and artefact.
* Technologies of physical differentiation, from physiognomic
description, through photograph to biometric identification.
* Cultural and associational definitions of identity and their
subversion.
* The bureaucratic mediation of rights of mobility, both across
national borders and within the space claimed by the state.
* The legislative qualification or compromise in practice of
ostensibly equalising signifiers of identity, for example
passports or identity cards, which create new distinctions on the
basis of race, gender or religion.
* The regulation of pilgrimage.
* The mediation of provisions and economic supply in systems of
identification, for example ration cards and currency.
* Imperial histories of pass laws, passports and racial discrimination.
* Signifiers that secure the boundaries of cultural and social
networks.
* Exceptional consideration and mobility – systems of coded
documentation that evolve to account for the evacuee, refugee and
asylum.
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be sent by to Dr. Deborah Sutton,
Department of History, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YG, UK,
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