世界人类学大会2019年中期会议Infrastructure Building, Mobility, and Solidarity小组征稿

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Panel: Infrastructure Building, Mobility, and Solidarity

under The IUAES 2019 Inter-Congress

 

We are glad to inform that the panel “Infrastructure Building, Mobility, and Solidarity” proposed by the convenors Prof. Daming Zhou and Prof. Tan Chee-Beng has been accepted by the IUAES congress. The IUAES 2019 Inter-Congress will be held in Poznan, Poland, on 27-31 August 2019.

 

In the past two decades, both cities and rural areas around the world gained new forms of mobility and complexity in shaping human encounters. One perspective in anthropology is to see cities and developing rural areas as sites for the confluence of infrastructures and cultures. Infrastructures here include not only roads, railways, water pipes, or electric grids, but also media, Internet, and languages that allow for the trafficking of people, goods, ideas, beliefs, and lifestyles. To think of infrastructures relationally requires us to look at the ways in which old and new infrastructures are woven into the everyday workings of a locale, and how they inform the distribution of resources, generate political contestation, and articulate the locality with globalizing forces. Then, what kinds of forces are behind the establishment of these old and new infrastructures? How do infrastructures become landscapes, and how do certain aesthetics mediate this process? How do local, translocal and transnational people perceive, use, react or navigate such revamped ways of connectivity? What kinds of politics, imaginaries, memories and belongings are emerging? How will connections among people generate new forms of solidarities, albeit truncated ones? This panel welcomes papers addressing emerging aspects of urban and rural lives across different sites in the global south, and aims to develop understanding of the relations between infrastructure building, mobility, and solidarities.

 

Papers are invited to join this open panel. The panel committee will accept paper proposals until 15 February 2019 and notify acceptance of proposals on 15 March 2019.

 

How to submit the paper

 

• The author submitting the paper proposal will be first asked to complete the Registration form in order to receive the Registration ID required to proceed to the second form (Paper proposal submission) [Skip this step if you already have RegID]
• All submissions must be made via the online form.
• In the on-line submission form the authors will be asked to provide:
• Title of an open panel to which you prefer to submit your paper
• Title of the paper (please keep it concise).
• Short paper’s abstract (up to 300 characters with spaces).
• Long paper’s abstract (up to 250 words).
• 3 to 5 keywords.
• Information on the proposed language of presentation, if other than English. In case of choosing a language of presentation other than English, the author of an accepted paper will have to prepare the extended slide presentation in English. All IUAES 2019 rooms will be equipped with devices and software allowing such presentations.
• Please note that once submitted, the proposal cannot be modified online. In case you need to change your original submission, please send the information about the required modifications to the Registration Team: iuaes2019@mazurkas.pl

 

Please refer to the following page for the information of the panel:

https://www.iuaes2019.org/open-panels/

 

For more information about the IUAES 2019 Inter-Congress, please visit this page:

https://www.iuaes2019.org/

 

Thank you and feel free to circulate this CFP to others who might have an interest.

 

 

Dr Guangxu Ji and Ms Qi Hongxia

 

Centre for Migration and Ethnic Studies

School of Sociology and Anthropology

Sun Yat-Sen University

Add: Bd. 410, 135 Xin Gang Xi Rd., Guangzhou, China 510275

Email: jiguangxu@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Tel: (86) 20 8411 0575; (86) 20 8411 4275