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[Commlist] CFP: Transnational families and media practices Methods, ethics and critical approaches
Fri Apr 21 09:56:23 GMT 2023
Please note that the deadline for the ECREA conference on “Transnational
families and media practices: Methods, ethics and critical approaches”
is quickly approaching.
Please find below information about the conference as well as the PhD
workshop jointly organized by the International and Intercultural
Communication (IIC) division and the Diaspora Migration and the Media
(DMM) division. Feel free to circulate the CFP.
*Topic: *Transnational families and media practices: Methods, ethics and
critical approaches
*Venue: *Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
*Date: *7-9 December 2023**
*Link*: https://ecrea.eu/event-5179455 <https://ecrea.eu/event-5179455>
*Deadline to submit abstracts is 28 April 2023. *
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*Transnational families and media practices: Methods, ethics and
critical approaches *
Transnational families, through their ability to cross borders, connect
cultures, expand the meanings and limits of national belonging, and
negotiate the cultural, linguistic and psychological challenges of
migration, have become exemplary models of “mobile lives” (Elliott and
Urry, 2010). Transnational families offer insights into the
contradictions and complexities of interculturality (Dervin, 2017) as a
lived reality permeating more and less intimate interpersonal
experiences. The centrality of transnational family communication in
today’s world is enhanced by everyday digital media usage, the ubiquity
of portable devices and the new technical affordances of platforms and
apps. Transnational families therefore help us apprehend historical
transformations connected to mediated experiences of crossing borders
and interculturality.
While the attention of scholars has intensified around how transnational
families both shape and are shaped by the (urban) spaces they leave and
enter, we contend that more attention needs to be paid to the
methodological and ethical challenges researchers face when studying
transnational families and communities. This conference provides an
opportunity for scholars to discuss the assumptions underpinning their
research and to share critical reflections on the ethical
responsibilities that researchers have when observing transnational
families and communities, including through digital platforms and their
connection with mobility processes in and through cities.
We invite scholars and PhD researchers to submit abstract proposals that
engage with new theoretical, methodological and ethical approaches to
the study of transnational families and their communication practices in
Europe and beyond. We also welcome submissions that can provide
historical perspectives into the (dis)continuities characterizing
transnational families and their media practices. Contributions that
call into question Eurocentric forms of knowledge through decolonial
narratives and frameworks are especially welcome.
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*Confirmed keynote speakers: *
Professor Myria Georgiou (The London School of Economics and Political
Science, UK) and Associate Professor Amanda Paz Alencar (Erasmus
University Rotterdam, the Netherlands).
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*Potential topics: *
- New approaches to the concept of family and transnational relations in
a mediated world
- New understandings of transnational families and digital connectivity
- Diaspora networks
- Creative and participatory methods with transnational families
- Ethical and methodological dilemmas on media practices of
transnational families
- Home language maintenance and development of transnational families
- Transnational families as actors of interculturality
- Decolonial approaches to transnational families
- Innovative approaches to Family Language Policy and translanguaging
- Ethical dilemmas of researching the concept of health within
transnational families
- Historical perspectives and focus on (dis)continuities
- Transnational families and diverse cities
In addition to the conference, we will be hosting a joint workshop for
PhD students on the 6th of December 2023, in Rotterdam. The workshop
will focus upon innovative methods in studying transnational
families/communities, digital media usage, and ethical challenges
associated with this. The separate application for this one-day workshop
can be found here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1OEPKIbFtwRh7jE0ckALHMgTyt3Zc8AS16vfZxV9JIUs/edit>.
Please note that it is possible for Doctoral researchers to attend both
the workshop and the conference, or only one event.
*Submission guidelines *
Submissions for _individual papers_ should include an abstract (max 400
words including keywords and main references) and a short biographical
note (max 100 words). Abstracts should be submitted electronically,
using the online submission form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdZ0abArZ0WnXJhewFuO_0FrtBxFULuHO6eP6x2rqDDua56FQ/viewform?usp=share_link> by
April 28th, 2023.
Submissions for _panels_ should be submitted via e-mail to
(ecreadmmicc /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(ecreadmmicc /at/ gmail.com)> by 28 April 2023.
Submissions should include a chairperson, a rationale for the panel (250
words), and the names of four speakers including their abstract (250
words) and biographical note (max 100 words).
We recommend that you include the following information in your abstract:
∙ An introductory statement which explains the background/significance
of your research
∙ A description of your theoretical framework and methodology
∙ An overview of the main findings of your research
∙ A concluding statement
The conference will be in person only. Proposal acceptance notification:
mid-June.
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