Panel at the ASA UK 2012 Conference in Leeds, 6-8 September 2012
Narratives and Trajectories of Displacement and Mobility: moving beyond the refugee-migration-development nexus
Organisers:
Tanja R. Müller, University of Manchester
Katarzyna Grabska, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel
This panel takes as its starting point the questioning of categories such as ‘refugee’, ‘migrant’, ‘transmigrant’, ‘cosmopolitan’ and look at multiplicities of trajectories of displacement and emplacement in a broad sense, as well as how those are made sense of in personal narratives and life histories. One starting point for reflection is the interrogation of Giorgio Agamben’s claim that the refugee embodies the vanguard of a coming political community of cosmopolitan subjects and thus can serve as the paradigm of a new historical consciousness that advocates to rebuild political philosophy around the figure of the refugee. A second starting point is Ferguson’s dictum on the aspiration for connection among population of the Global South that ultimately regards the refugee/migrant/mobile existence as a place of bricolage and creative invention aimed at realising modern aspirations in a global world.
The panel welcomes papers that engage with the above assumptions in a critical way. While conflict-induced displacement may for many be part of a new experience of mobility, for others war-time migration might be part of wider mobile livelihood strategies. Yet again for some immobility might become a constraining feature of conflict-induced displacement. Experiences of refuge, flight, migration, mobility and immobility are gendered, whereby women and men, old and young, experience migratory trajectories in different ways. This panel seeks to critically investigate those diverse and complex dynamics. Case studies of refugee, migration, mobility or immobility experiences as well as methodological papers that interrogate how the complex reality of those who are ‘everywhere and nowhere’ can be captured in narrative and life histories, and what the potential and pitfalls of such an approach may be are particularly welcome. In addition any papers that interrogate mobile trajectories as gendered and generational among others, or engage with their multiple connections to nation states and forms of nationalism and/or patriotism are particularly welcome.
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Alternatively, please submit an abstract via the conference website (which included guidance on submitting a paper to potential paper givers)
http://www.asauk.net/conferences/asauk12.shtml
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