[Commlist] CfP for SIEF23: Living in the Uncertain City: Micromobilities, Boundary Making and Multilocal Care

Please consider submitting an abstract for the panel /Living in the 
Uncertain City: Micromobilities, Boundary Making and Multilocal Care /at 
SIEF23. The next SIEF congress will be held in Brno, Czech Republic, 
between June 7^th and 10^th .

*Living in the Uncertain City: Micromobilities, Boundary Making and 
Multilocal Care *

The COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and the subsequent cost of 
living crisis instigated unprecedented uncertainties. Anxiety, precarity 
and hope shape future visions of urban green spaces, transgenerational 
care commitments, and community relations (Almeida, 2021). Discussing 
ethnographic evidence from present-day disasters, this panel explores 
how discourses of uncertainty contribute to the socio-technical 
reordering of urban space. The overarching aim of the panel is to bring 
together scholars who assess the role of imaginings about uncertainty in 
urban life. The ongoing times of crises coincide with a ubiquitous 
implementation of geospatial information technologies in urban space. 
Urban micromobilities, which are facilitated by navigational smartphone 
apps, e-scooters, e-bikes, delivery robots and drones, have reconfigured 
urban lifestyles (e.g., Leszczynski, & Elwood, 2022). The uncertainties 
associated with the global pandemic and the military conflict have also 
produced a crisis of care, which is played out in multilocal contexts. 
While numerous care homes and people with mental health issues were left 
in limbo during the pandemic, care for the ecosystems of the planet has 
widely been neglected (Mody, 2020). Finally, the datafication of urban 
space has prompted epistemological uncertainty. The rise of mobile 
technologies in the city and digitised archives pose challenges for 
ethnographic methodologies. This panel invites contributions to 
understandings of lived spaces and everyday practices in uncertain 
times: Which tactics do urban (or rural) communities pursue to cope with 
current uncertainties and spatial restructuring? To what extent have 
pandemic lockdown policies changed urbanity? How is the right to the 
computational city re-negotiated during crises?

*Panel Convenors: *

Christian Ritter (Karlstad University)

Tarmo Pikner (Tallinn University)

Trausti Dagsson (The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies)

Abstracts can be directly submitted to our panel until January 10^th :

https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/sief2023/p/12829# 
<https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/sief2023/p/12829>

Feel free to reach out to us in case you have any questions (e.g., 
(christian.ritter /at/ kau.se) <mailto:(christian.ritter /at/ kau.se)>).


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