Dear colleagues,
Have you been working on mobilities, circulation and communication
outside the framework of migration? If so, or if you are interested in
these themes, it would be great to have your contribution in our panel at
the EASA 2020 in Lisbon (21-24th of July).
We invite paper submissions to our panel on ‘Everyday mobilities
and circulation of people, things and ideas: Expanding the concept of
technology from what makes us mobile [ANTHROMOB]’.
Short abstract:
This panel proposes to expand our understanding of technology on the basis
of practices of everyday mobilities and circulation. We aim to discuss how
technologies such as transport services, IDs, mobile phones, languages and
currencies, among others, play a role in making us mobile.
Long abstract:
Opening up for diverse (sometimes clashing) uses of the concept of
technology, this panel aims to stimulate debates on how technologies are
used to encourage, hinder, facilitate and influence everyday instances of
mobilities and circulation that do not relate to migration. Our purpose is
to expand our analytical conceptions of what technology is and can be in
order to fully encompass ethnography-informed practices and definitions of
mobility and motility (Kaufmann 2004; Salazar and Smart 2012; Urry and
Sheller 2006).
We are particularly looking for contributions that address the circulation
of people, things, and ideas, as well as the possibility of movement that
is not materialised. In looking at what makes us mobile, we analyse
technologies that may relate to infrastructure such as transport systems
(Dalakoglou and Harvey 2016), documents like passports and IDs (Amoore
2006; Jansen 2009), mobile phones, apps and media technologies (Miller et
al. 2016; Marres 2017), languages, currencies, and any tool used to enable
flows. These can include, but are not limited to, commuting, travelling,
exchanging and transacting; crossing streets, city limits or national
borders; circulating or making things, ideas, information, knowledge,
resources, public policies or other people circulate. Along these lines,
this panel seeks to answer: How does the way we think about technology
affect our perception mobility, spatiality and presence? To what extent
would certain technologies (e.g. traffic lights, slow internet connection,
language misunderstandings) fail to enable mobility or purposefully slow
down flows? How would mobility be possible without technologies?
You can find more information about the conference and our panel (P063) on
the following link:
https://easaonline.org/conferences/easa2020/panels#8662
Thanks,
Guilherme Fians (University of Manchester)
Jérémie Voirol (Graduate Institute, Geneva)
Diego Valdivieso (University of Manchester)
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Diego Valdivieso Sierpe.
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