Dear all,
We are putting together a panel for the 2010 American Anthropology
Association Meetings and are requesting abstracts. This year's meetings
will be in New Orleans to be held November 17-21.
Submission due date: April 1, 2010.
Organizers: Erica Vogel (UC Irvine) and Erin Moran (UC Irvine)
Panel Title: Cartographies of Trans-migrant Imaginaries
Panel Abstract:
The 2010 AAA theme of “circulation” suggests the movement of subjects
through and across transnational borders, real and imagined. Both for
those who migrate and those who don’t, transnational movements of people
simultaneously entail and produce certain kinds of imaginaries about
places. As governments, NGOS, and migrants themselves engage with the
idea of migration, places are juxtaposed in unexpected ways. This
creates linkages in which new ideas about those places can emerge and
circulate. We wish to explore these unexpected cartographies that are
generated by and about transnational subjects, and through which
beliefs, claims, and activities are enacted.
This panel considers the performances, passages, and transformations
that occur through mappings of transnational spaces. How do
transnational subjects imagine the places they encounter and, in turn,
how do migrants come to be imagined? How do laws, beliefs, aspirations,
and/or discourses enable or constrain migrant imaginaries? How do people
map the same places in different ways, and how does this impact their
real and imagined movement? How are people emplaced through mappings and
what are the consequences of the embodied positionings of transnational
subjects? What kinds of flows, blockages, or collisions take place at
the borders of places and/or imaginaries?
Requirements: Abstracts must be 250 words or less, and to participate
you must register for the 2010 AAA meetings and plan to attend.
Website: http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/Call-for-Papers.cfm
The AAA's have a submission deadline of April 1, 2010, so if interested,
please contact Erica Vogel [log in to unmask] or Erin Moran [log in to unmask]
with questions or abstracts.
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