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Dear colleagues,

Please consider submitting a paper to our panel =E2=80=9CEveryday Activism and Ci=
tizenship from Below: Responses to EU Border and Migration Regimes=E2=80=9D at the=
Vienna Anthropology Days (VANDA2024), Sept. 23 =E2=80=93 Sept. 26, 2024.=20

Convenors: Monika Palmberger (University of Vienna), Elissa Helms (Central =
European University)

Everyday Activism and Citizenship from Below: Responses to EU Border and Mi=
gration Regimes

This panel delves into the realm of everyday activism, volunteering, and fo=
rms of resistance (Dickinson et al. 2008; Nolas et al. 2017), understood as =
citizenship from below (Isin 2008) and as a response to the EU border and mi=
gration regimes (Rosenberger et al. 2018). Building on a feminist perspectiv=
e, we understand citizenship as constructed, gendered and as a process (List=
er 1997). In this panel we explore everyday activism - online and offline - =
by migrants and non-migrants alike in which citizenship is enacted through s=
truggles for rights, regardless of individuals' legal status.

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Within the intricate fabric of activism, individuals from various backgroun=
ds, including migrants, civic activists and those without any form of instit=
utional affiliation or connection, partake in diverse forms of activism, bro=
adly defined. These may include the appropriation of public spaces and virtu=
al realms as well as the appropriation of private homes, which may be reconc=
eptualized as political spaces (Merikoski 2021). We will thus consider forms=
of 'lived citizenship' (Kallio et al. 2020) - drawing attention to embodied=
practices in which individuals navigate rights, responsibilities, identitie=
s and a sense of belonging through everyday interactions with others in phys=
ical proximity and virtually - into account as well as other forms of politi=
cal activism and solidarities, including social media campaigns and protests=
at the EU's external borders.

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We invite ethnographic and theoretical contributions that shed light on the=
multifaceted dynamics of everyday activism and forms of resistance, particu=
larly in response to border and migration regimes at the EU external borders=
. We welcome diverse perspectives and methodologies that illuminate the comp=
lexities of activism across different contexts and settings and across onlin=
e and offline environments, including the appropriation of public space, the=
reconceptualization of private homes as political arenas, and actions that =
trouble the very concept of activism in relation to state practices.

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Please submit your abstract (with a maximum of 300 words) until June 1st, 2=
024 via the conference website.=20

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Best wishes,=20

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Elissa and Monika

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Dr. Monika Palmberger

https://www.monikapalmberger.eu

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Latest publications

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Migrants and New Media: Digital Ethnography, Transnationalism, and Superdiv=
ersity. In The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity. 2023.

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Refugees enacting (digital) citizenship through placemaking and care practi=
ces near and far. In Citizenship Studies. 2022.

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Doing Research at Online and Offline Intersections: Bringing Together Digit=
al and Mobile Methodologies (with Katja Kaufmann). In Media and Communicatio=
n. 2022.

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Narratives of Transnational Placemaking. Exploring Migrant Workers=E2=80=99 Hidde=
n Histories through Memory-Guided City Walks. In Narrative Culture. 2022.

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The Nexus of Anthropology and Narrative: Ethnographic Encounters with Story=
telling Practices (with Barbara G=C3=B6tsch). In Narrative Culture. 2022.=20

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Special issues

Across mobile online and offline spaces: Reflections on methods, practices,=
and ethics (with Katja Kaufmann). In Media and Communication, 2022.=20

=E2=80=98Let me tell you a story=E2=80=98: anthropological encounters with narrative (w=
ith Barbara G=C3=B6tsch). In Narrative Culture, 2022.

Book

Care across Distance: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration (wit=
h Azra Hromadzic), Berghahn (Paperback) 2022.=20

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