[ecrea] Call for Papers “Nomadism, Mobilities and Media”

    *Call for Papers “Nomadism, Mobilities and Media”*

*On August 29-31, 2018 the “Nomadism, Mobilities and Media” conference 
will be held at AUCA. The conference is dedicated to the /World Nomad 
Games III/*

/‘Modern man might be so mobile that he can never establish roots and 
his experience of place may be all too superficial’ (Tuan, 1977, 183). /

Manuel Castells <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Castells> outlined 
a "network society" and suggested that the "space of places" is being 
surpassed by a "space of flows." (Castells, 1989)

Mobilities is a contemporary paradigm in the social sciences that 
explores the movement of people (Human migration, travel, transport), 
ideas (see e.g. meme) and things (transport), as well as the broader 
social implications of those movements (Urry, 2000)

Several typologies have been formulated to clarify the wide variety of 
mobilities. Most notably, John Urry divides mobilities into five types: 
mobility of objects, corporeal mobility, imaginative mobility, virtual 
mobility and communicative mobility. Later, Leopoldina Fortunati and 
Sakari Taipale proposed an alternative typology taking the individual 
and the human body as a point of reference. They differentiate between 
‘macro-mobilities’ (consistent physical displacements), 
‘micro-mobilities’ (small-scale displacements), ‘media mobility’ 
(mobility added to the traditionally fixed forms of media) and 
‘disembodied mobility’ (the transformation in the social order).

Mobility also incorporates how topologies 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topologies> of social networks relate to 
how complex patterns form and change 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_formation>. Contemporary 
information technologies and ways of life often create broad but weak 
social ties across time and space, with social life 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_relationships> 
incorporating fewer chance meetings and more networked connections.

Nomadism has the central importance in the genesis of the modern nation 
of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakstan and other Turkic and Persian nations.

Nomadism is a way of life and human existence that is connected with 
permanent and more or less regular movements of people between different 
locations.

“Nomadism, Mobilities and Media” conference invites papers which examine 
both the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and 
information across the world, as well as more local processes of daily 
transportation, movement through public and private spaces, and the 
travel of material things in everyday life, the diverse mobilities of 
peoples, objects, images, information and wastes; and of the complex 
interdependencies between, and social consequences of, these diverse 
mobilities.

While mobilities is commonly associated with sociology 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology>, contributions to the 
“Nomadism, Mobilities and Media” conference are welcome from scholars in 
anthropology <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology>, cultural 
studies <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_studies>, economics 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics>, geography 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography>, migration studies 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_studies>, science and 
technology studies 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_studies>, and 
tourism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_geography> and transport 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport> studies etc.

“Nomadism, Mobilities and Media” conference welcomes abstracts, research 
in progress and research papers in the following subjects which have 
been explored in the mobilities paradigm:

  * Mobile spatiality and temporality
  * Sustainable <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_mobility> and
    alternative mobilities
  * Mobile rights and risks
  * New social networks <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networks>
    and mobile media <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_media>
  * Immobilities and social exclusions
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_exclusion>
  * Tourism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism> and travel
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel> mobilities
  * Migration <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_migration> and
    diasporas <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora>
  * Transportation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation> and
    communication technologies
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_technologies>
  * Transitions in complex systems
  * Nomadism
  * Media mobilities
  * Digital Nomad

Please send your abstracts not more than 300 words to (nomad /at/ auca.kg) 
<mailto:(nomad /at/ auca.kg)> no later than June 30, 2018.




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