CfP: SIEF25 Panel: Writing about mobilities: borders and public health in the climate regime
Dear all,
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We invite you to submit an abstract to our panel Writing about mobilities: = borders and public health in the climate regime at the SIEF 2025 Congress i= n Aberdeen, 3-6 June 2025.
Convenors: Christian Ritter (Karlstad University) Ieva Puzo (R=EFga Stradi=F1=B9 University)
Panel Abstract: This panel assesses the epistemological politics of ethnographic (un)writin= g about mobilities. Writing is an essential part of everyday life as well a= s an integral element of the ethnographic research practice (Wulff, 2021). = Ways of creating, storing and disseminating information are structured by p= ractices of writing. On the one hand, sign boards, handwritten notes, leafl= ets, text messages and social media posts shape the spatial organisation of= places and the social construction of local identities in ethnographic fie= ld sites (Barton & Papen, 2010). On the other hand, ethnographers write fie= ld notes, reports and papers about mobile communities, corporal movement an= d the circulation of objects, data and capital across the globe. Written do= cuments shape how mobile subjects experience borders, moments of stasis and= movement (Riles 2006). In this panel, we invite scholars to explore the dy= namic tensions between written traces of movement and ethnographic writing.= How can written accounts of mobility complement field notes? How can mobil= e regimes be unwritten? In what ways are colonialism and contemporary mobil= ities intertwined?
The panel encourages ethnographic researchers to explore the potential of e= thnographic storytelling for unwriting contemporary migration and border re= gimes. Ethnographic storytelling can challenge asymmetrical power relations= in academia and establish transnational ethnographic collaborations, while= transgressing conventional rules for single-person authorship. Participant= s will be given an opportunity to discuss experimental forms of gathering a= nd presenting ethnographic data. The panel welcomes critical reflections on= ethnographic (un)writing for anthropological mobility research into refuge= es, climate mobilities, health regimes and mobile labour.
Deadline: 17 Dec 2024 - Submission site: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/s= ief2025/p/16198#
Best wishes, Christian and Ieva
Christian Ritter, PhD Senior Lecturer Department of Geography, Media and Communication Karlstad University
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