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Call for Papers: Relationalities: A Response to 'Difference'
The Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at the University of
Manchester will be hosting an intimate, one-day conference titled
"Relationalities: A Response to 'Difference'" on 18th May 2010. Postgraduate
students, research fellows and academic staff are all invited to submit
abstracts for consideration. Details are below. Please email Aliaa Remtilla and
Rachel Wilde at [log in to unmask] with any further questions.
Relationalitites: A Response to Difference
It is common for people to conceive of difference using categories that appear
self-evident. Race, gender, sexuality, class, nationality and religion are all
frequently used to signify both difference and similarities. It is not often,
however, that people can cleanly fit into a clear set of such categorical
delineations of identity. Difference also exists on many levels. Two people who
fit into the same set of aforementioned categories may find that it is difficult
for them to relate to one another. Simultaneously, people who are ‘different’
can also feel connected. This conference seeks to move past the use of
‘difference’ as a self-evident concept by focusing on intersubjective, human
relationships that meander elusively through the aforementioned categories.
We are interested in exploring the ambivalence and contradictions inherent to
these relationalities in order to better understand how differences can be
negotiated and nullified, if only partially, through the building of new
connections. Relationships are not always built despite difference but,
frequently, common elements of differing experiences can enable people to
reach out to one another. We believe that this focus on networks and
relationships created as a result of shared social situations and common
experiences will give us a framework of relationalities that are not binary and
will therefore allow us to move beyond dyads of ‘self’ and ‘other’. We are
calling for papers that ethnographically explore the messiness of relationalities
on the ground. What choices do people make about whom they do and do not
relate to? What are the varying degrees of closeness that relationalities can
simultaneously espouse? What are the terms of engagement, and the
expectations of these relationalities? In what ways can existing connections
between people become altered by forces imposed on them from outside or
from within?
The ‘Relationalities’ Conference will take place on Monday, 18th May 2010 from
9am to 6pm. This small conference will consist of no more than eight papers all
of which must be rooted in and derived from ethnographic research. It is
critical that papers are of a high enough standard to be published; the
proceedings, including an introduction by Nina Glick Schiller, will be posted on
the RICC working papers website and, thereafter, be submitted for peer review
for a special issue of a journal. Abstracts must be between 500 and 600 words
and emailed to [log in to unmask] no later than March 31st. Financial
assistance for travel and lodging is possible upon application.
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