[ecrea] CfP "Between the mediation of diversity and the diversity of mediations" - panel 60, ASA 2014

The Call for Papers is now open for ASA 2014, which is will take place 
on June 19-22 2014, in Edimburgh.

We invite you to submit your abstracts to Panel 60 - "Between the 
mediation of diversity and the diversity of mediations" . The panel 
promotes the widening of the anthropological gaze on a key contemporary 
dimension: present-day inter-relationships between media and mobility. 
It seeks theoretical, thematic and/or methodological reflections on the 
analytical potentialities of integrated approaches in that field of 
studies, and exploring its aptitude to bring light to major problematic 
areas such as identity, placement and belonging. (Long abstract below)


Please submit your abstracts by January 5th through the conference’s 
system:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2014/panels.php5?PanelID=2743 including 
both a short abstract (max. 300 characters) and a long abstract (max. 
250 words).

Participants will be notified of acceptance by January 20th, 2014.
Convenors: Marta Rosales (ICS) and Inês David (CRIA-FCSH/UNL)

*** Apologies for Cross Posting ***

Long abstract:

There is a growing body of research concerned with the processes of the 
mediation of diversity as well as with the diversity of the types of 
mediations that are central in contexts of mobility and their 
implications in contemporary notions of identity, placement and belonging.

Yet, ongoing transformations deriving from technological convergence and 
the diversification of migratory flows invite further mapping, and 
inter-relating, both old and new articulations between media and 
circulations, as well as on how they intersect with dominant notions of 
time, space and place eventually altering them/reviewing them, 
compressing them.

This panel aims to explore perspectives that are complementary to 
consolidated research. It invites innovative contributions that present 
theoretical, thematic and/or methodological counterpoints and that 
engage with new perspectives and dimensions of analysis:

a) by revisiting established themes such as:

· the politics of self-representation of minority populations;

· the possibilities unlocked by digital technologies and communications 
as well as by the combined use of “old” and “new” media in the 
management of relationships and senses of belonging;

· relationships with technology (insofar as they are informed by 
temporality, materiality, media ideologies and so on) in what concerns 
the production and management of memories and heritage claims.


b) by discussing under-explored case-studies and dimensions such as:
· the importance of destination-images in the motivations driving 
movement and the political economy of their production;

· the combined role of different media in the circulation of useful 
information for incorporation in the destination context;

· the existence of new molds and channels for the consolidation of 
imagined transnational communities;

· the uses of media among under-researched mobility cases, such as 
recent privileged flows.



Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes,

Marta Rosales & Inês David

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