Message posted on 12/01/2025
CALL FOR PAPERS APA 2025 - P094: «Rooted or Remote: Exploring the Impact of Digitally Mediated Work on Mobility and Belonging».
Dear colleagues,
Happy New Year!
The call for papers for the 9th APA CONGRESS "ITINERANCES" taking place in Viana do Castelo (Portugal) in JULY 14-18th has been extended to January 23th 2025.
We wanted to invite you to submit a paper to our in-person panel P094: «Rooted or Remote: Exploring the Impact of Digitally Mediated Work on Mobility and Belonging».
We are interested in fostering reflection on how the transformations of digitally mediated work affect how people imagine, desire and practice im/mobility across different life stages and contexts.
Abstracts for communications (200 words) are due before 13th January 2025.
Full instructions can be found at this link:
https://apa2025.eventqualia.net/en/home/panels/call-for-communications/
FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE PANEL
This panel proposes an exploration of the interconnections between im/mobilities and digitally mediated work. Almost all work today entails the use of digital technologies, whose multiple applications are transforming how work is assigned, experienced, performed, and controlled. By digitally mediated work, we refer broadly to work practices reconfigured through digital platforms, algorithms, and data processing, resulting in practices that may include fully online labour—whether in person or remote—or physical labour facilitated by digital platforms.
For instance, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the global adoption of remote work, raising fundamental questions about the future of professional mobility in an era where work is increasingly detached from physical location. Simultaneously, it triggered an intensification of the platform economy and on-demand labour, such as delivery or care work.
By bringing together diverse empirical examples of digitally mediated work, this panel aims to foster reflection on how these transformations in the work realm affect how people imagine, desire, and practice im/mobility across different life stages and contexts. For some, digitally mediated work represents an opportunity to settle in one place; for others, it may offer a way to avoid migration or, conversely, a tool for embracing ongoing mobility. For others still, it might provide a means to return to a desired homeland. In sum, digitally mediated work can reshape not only patterns of migration and everyday mobilities, but also fundamental concepts of belonging, community-making, and citizenship.
The panel welcomes empirically grounded studies and theoretical reflections on the connections between im/mobilities and digitally mediated work across various types of workers and mobile individuals: remote and gig workers, highly skilled migrants, digital nomads, and platform workers. Altogether, the papers will chart emerging meanings and practices of im/mobility, community, and belonging resulting from the impact of digitally mediated work.
We accept proposals in English and in Spanish. Do not hesitate to circulate the call more widely.
Warm wishes,
Fabiola Mancinelli (Universitat de Barcelona)
Mónica Belén Fernández Suárez (Universidade da Coruña)
Fabiola Mancinelli
Professora Titular | Associate Professor | Universitat de Barcelona
Departament d'Antropologia Social
http://www.ub.edu/antropo/fitxa/fabiola-mancinelli/
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Happy New Year!
The call for papers for the 9th APA CONGRESS "ITINERANCES" taking place in Viana do Castelo (Portugal) in JULY 14-18th has been extended to January 23th 2025.
We wanted to invite you to submit a paper to our in-person panel P094: «Rooted or Remote: Exploring the Impact of Digitally Mediated Work on Mobility and Belonging».
We are interested in fostering reflection on how the transformations of digitally mediated work affect how people imagine, desire and practice im/mobility across different life stages and contexts.
Abstracts for communications (200 words) are due before 13th January 2025.
Full instructions can be found at this link:
https://apa2025.eventqualia.net/en/home/panels/call-for-communications/
FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE PANEL
This panel proposes an exploration of the interconnections between im/mobilities and digitally mediated work. Almost all work today entails the use of digital technologies, whose multiple applications are transforming how work is assigned, experienced, performed, and controlled. By digitally mediated work, we refer broadly to work practices reconfigured through digital platforms, algorithms, and data processing, resulting in practices that may include fully online labour—whether in person or remote—or physical labour facilitated by digital platforms.
For instance, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the global adoption of remote work, raising fundamental questions about the future of professional mobility in an era where work is increasingly detached from physical location. Simultaneously, it triggered an intensification of the platform economy and on-demand labour, such as delivery or care work.
By bringing together diverse empirical examples of digitally mediated work, this panel aims to foster reflection on how these transformations in the work realm affect how people imagine, desire, and practice im/mobility across different life stages and contexts. For some, digitally mediated work represents an opportunity to settle in one place; for others, it may offer a way to avoid migration or, conversely, a tool for embracing ongoing mobility. For others still, it might provide a means to return to a desired homeland. In sum, digitally mediated work can reshape not only patterns of migration and everyday mobilities, but also fundamental concepts of belonging, community-making, and citizenship.
The panel welcomes empirically grounded studies and theoretical reflections on the connections between im/mobilities and digitally mediated work across various types of workers and mobile individuals: remote and gig workers, highly skilled migrants, digital nomads, and platform workers. Altogether, the papers will chart emerging meanings and practices of im/mobility, community, and belonging resulting from the impact of digitally mediated work.
We accept proposals in English and in Spanish. Do not hesitate to circulate the call more widely.
Warm wishes,
Fabiola Mancinelli (Universitat de Barcelona)
Mónica Belén Fernández Suárez (Universidade da Coruña)
Fabiola Mancinelli
Professora Titular | Associate Professor | Universitat de Barcelona
Departament d'Antropologia Social
http://www.ub.edu/antropo/fitxa/fabiola-mancinelli/
Aquest missatge, i els fitxers adjunts que hi pugui haver, pot contenir informació confidencial o protegida legalment i s’adreça exclusivament a la persona o entitat destinatària. Si no consteu com a destinatari final o no teniu l’encàrrec de rebre’l, no esteu autoritzat a llegir-lo, retenir-lo, modificar-lo, distribuir-lo, copiar-lo ni a revelar-ne el contingut. Si l’heu rebut per error, informeu-ne el remitent i elimineu del sistema tant el missatge com els fitxers adjunts que hi pugui haver.
Este mensaje, y los ficheros adjuntos que pueda incluir, puede contener información confidencial o legalmente protegida y está exclusivamente dirigido a la persona o entidad destinataria. Si usted no consta como destinatario final ni es la persona encargada de recibirlo, no está autorizado a leerlo, retenerlo, modificarlo, distribuirlo o copiarlo, ni a revelar su contenido. Si lo ha recibido por error, informe de ello al remitente y elimine del sistema tanto el mensaje como los ficheros adjuntos que pueda contener.
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