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EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network Workshop<\/div>\n
27-28 September 2013<\/div>\n
Oxford, UK<\/div>\n
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Sponsored by: European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) and The Qualitative Methods Hub for the Social Sciences Division (OxQualHub), University of Oxford, Cultural Mobilities Research (CuMoRe), University of Leuven<\/div>\n
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Workshop convenors: Jamie Coates (Australian National University), Alice Elliot (University of Leuven), Roger Norum (University of Oxford)<\/div>\n
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Ethnography has long been the hallmark of anthropology, and most social science disciplines now routinely employ qualitative ethnographic research methods. While the ethnographic method has adapted to shifts within the discipline (e.g. emphasis on participant observation, textual and interpretive approaches, use of audio-visual materials), growing interest in mobility-related research prompts new methodological questions in the field(s) of anthropology. Novel ethnographic spaces that comprise multiple scales, diverse geographies, extremely mobile actors and disembodied information and communications technologies (ICTs) are providing fodder for new anthropological horizons, as well as spawning new challenges and obstacles engendered by such fresh forms of scholarly enquiry.<\/div>\n
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We invite papers that explore, from a variety of theoretical and empirical angles, how ethnographers are responding to questions being raised in the study of mobility. We are interested, in particular, in the \u2018zones of awkward engagement\u2019 (cf. Tsing) between mobility’s methods and the production of ethnographic theory, and the ways in which ethnographies of movement may provide novel theoretical horizons for anthropology. We welcome papers that originally grapple with mobility at any scale and in both classic and unexpected settings. Topics might include (but are in no sense limited to):<\/div>\n
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\u2022 Carrying out longitudinal studies or multi-sited fieldwork, and collecting big (and small) data from mobile subjects and geographies<\/div>\n
\u2022 Conducting research with reduced-mobility (e.g. disabled, infirm or elderly) or mobile (e.g. pilgrims, ascetics, nomadic pastoralists) communities<\/div>\n
\u2022 The role and ethics of certain forms of data production (e.g. state surveillance, technological governance, documenting illegal migration)<\/div>\n
\u2022 Exploring mobility\u2019s imaginary components (e.g. the desire and expectation of future mobility, planned-but-never-actualised movements)<\/div>\n
\u2022 The necessary mobility and rootlessness of the ethnographic researcher herself<\/div>\n
\u2022 How various new technologies (e.g. mobile phones, Evernote, Skype) change both the craft of doing and writing ethnography \u2013 across both traditional ethnographic settings as well as in virtual, online and other digitally-mediated environments.<\/div>\n
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Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to easamobworkshop@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0by Friday, 17 May, 2013. <\/b>Be sure to include your name, institutional affiliation, paper title and contact details in your email.\u00a0Funding for travel and accommodation is available for EASA-member participants.<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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