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Dear colleagues,
The CFP for SIEF 2011 in Lisbon, Portugal is now open. My colleagues Inês
Lourenço, Rita Cachado and I are proposing the following panel, and invite
paper submissions:
India's other sites: social and cultural pathways at home and abroad.
You will find the informations about this panel here:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2011/panels.php5?PanelID=768
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SIEF 2011: People Make Places - ways of feeling the world
The 10th international SIEF congress will take place in Lisbon, 17-21 April
2011
Panel 110: India's other sites: social and cultural pathways at home and
abroad
Send abstract until October 15, 2010
*Convenors: *
Cláudia Pereira (CIES-IUL, Lisbon University Institute)
Rita Cachado (CIES-IUL, Lisbon University Institute)
Inês Lourenço (CRIA-IUL, Lisbon University Institute)
*Short Abstract*
India is a privileged context for building social, cultural, religious,
political and historical places. At the same time, India is a starting point
for building Indian places outside its territorial matrix. Diaspora
phenomena illustrate these multi-sited and multi-belonging experiences.
Long Abstract
In and outside India diverse negotiations coexist in the way in which people
shape their lives and places, starting from the different historical and
colonial pathways that differentiate Goa, Daman and Diu, previously under
Portuguese administration, from the rest of India, formerly British. The
different uses of history must be seen in relation to memory and daily life:
caste, religion, symbols and localities imply social, cultural and
historical approaches.
Residential clusters inhabited by South Asian groups all over the world's
greatest urban areas originate interesting interactions between people and
spaces which, in turn, does not inhibit multiple processes of localization,
driven by Diaspora dynamics and, by the same token, as an outcome of
ambivalent belonging emotions towards extremely different national sites
such as India and Portugal. Different life experiences, itineraries and
memories all contribute to constructing real and imaginary spaces, which in
turn act as strong identity features in present.
South Asians’ quotidian and trajectories in cosmopolitan sites show that
India and Asian societies in general act as a permanent inspiration,
nourished by the media and contemporary consumption society. Therefore, we
may raise several questions: what strategies do people use to shape their
lives and places, in India and abroad? How is memory construction embodied?
What differences and similarities can we, as researchers, observe, whether
from the perspectives of individuals, groups or policy makers?
*Propose a paper at:*
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2011/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=768
*Visit SIEF 2011 site at*: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2011/index.html
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Cláudia Pereira
Ph.D.
CIES, Lisbon University Institute
http://www.cies.iscte.pt/en/index.jsp
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