Call for Papers
From Mobile Anthropologists to Anthropologies of Mobility
Canadian Anthropology Society/American Ethnological Society Joint Meeting
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, May 13-16, 2009
Organizer: Noel B. Salazar (University of Leuven)
This panel takes up the general conference theme, "Transnational
Anthropologies: Convergences and Divergences in Globalized Disciplinary
Networks". Long before transnationalism, globalization or
cosmopolitanism became academic buzzwords, anthropologists already knew
about these phenomena and processes as experience experts (although they
not necessarily acknowledged them in their writings). With the present
hype over global fluxes and flows, we tend to forget that many of
anthropology's founding scholars, including Franz Boas and Bronislaw
Malinowski, were themselves migrants and that the latter put
transcultural mobility at the heart of ethnographic practice. Not only
the experience of "being there" produced invaluable insights that shaped
the discipline, but also the act of traveling "out of place" played a
determining role. The papers in this panel analyze how professional as
well as personal engagements of anthropologists with a variety of
mobilities (e.g. migration, translocal fieldwork, and global academic
exchange via conferences, visiting programs, and online networks)
strategically positions them within the social sciences to
ethnographically describe, critically assess and theorize the current
"mobility turn".
If you are interested in participating, contact Noel B. Salazar
(noel.salazar@soc.kuleuven.be) by 20 December 2008.
Please submit your name, your affiliation, a title, and abstract limited
to 100 words. A maximum of five papers will be accepted (four in case a
discussant will comment upon the papers). High-quality papers will be
selected for publication.
More information about the conference is available online:
http://www.anth.ubc.ca/index.php?id=11928.0.html
Please note: You must be a member in good standing of either CASCA
(http://casca.anthropologica.ca/ab_memb_online.htm) or AES
(http://dev.aaanet.org/membership/join.cfm), or become one, to
participate in the conference.
