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\u201cCrossing Boundaries in a Post-Ethnic Era \u2013 Interdisciplinary Approaches and Negotiations\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Universit\u00e4t des Saarlandes, Saarbr\u00fccken Germany<\/p>\n

Moving into the second decade of the twenty-first century, interdisciplinary border studies are still in need of new theoretical approaches that not only move beyond the \u201cborderless\u201d discourses of the post-Cold War era, but that also respond to the urgent need that was articulated in the late 1990s for a conceptualization of borders\/boundaries as the sum of social, cultural, political, and economic processes. Following the 9\/11 attack in the U.S., the reality of increased border securitization as
\npart of the \u201cwar on terror\u201d has undermined the neo-liberal rhetoric of the \u201cborderless world.\u201d At the same time, partly as a reaction to globalization and partly as a response to emerging regionalism and ethno\u2010regionalist movements, a number of states have set in motion a process of re\u2010scaling in which they have devolved part of their power in governance to supra\u2010state and sub\u2010state regions (Paasi 2009). As a result of the above, the complex roles of borders and boundaries have become more relevant than ever, necessitating a reconceptualization that sees them as processes, discourses, practices, even symbols, through which power functions.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrossing boundaries\u201d is to be understood literally as well as metaphorically; possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
\n– Ethnic\/National\/State boundaries
\n– Redrawing boundaries, modifying ethnic categories\u2014expansion or limit?
\n– Ethnic conflict versus decentralization\u2014redesigning political arrangements, mapping out new borders
\n– Boundaries in literary criticism: world literature; comparative literature; national literature
\n– Boundaries (physical and discursive) and the material reality of cultural
\nproduction
\n– Crossing language borders \u2013 multilingualism
\n– Social or class boundaries
\n– Migration processes and global\/national\/regional mobility; eg. tourism, work migration, human trafficking
\n– Religious boundaries– from religion to fundamentalism
\n– Contemporary and historical globalization processes from the epoch of \u201cdiscoveries\u201d (16th\/17th century), to the imperial expansion of the West (19th century), and the global \u201cvirtual village\u201d of the 21st century
\n– Technology and borders; virtual biopolitics
\n– Post\u2013ethnic border performances
\n– Negotiating North-South divisions (Europe\/Americas) and economic
\ndisparities
\n– Theories and realities of post-ethnicity
\n– Deterritorialization and\/or reterritorialization<\/p>\n

Proposals <\/strong>should be submitted to the MESEA website at www.mesea.org between August 15 and November 15, 2013<\/strong>.
\nSubmitters will receive notification of acceptance by January 1, 2014.
\nPreference will be given to complete panel proposals with an inter\/transdisciplinary and\/or transnational focus. Panels may not include more than 2 participants from the same institution. Presenters must be members of MESEA or MELUS in 2014.
\nAs in previous years, MESEA will award two Young Scholars Excellence Awards.<\/p>\n

For more information please see: http:\/\/www.mesea.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Program Director:
\nJopi Nyman, PhD DSocSc
\nProfessor of English
\nSchool of Humanities
\nUniversity of Eastern Finland
\nP. O. Box 111
\nFI-80101 Joensuu
\nFINLAND
\nTel. +358-2944-52143
\nEmail: jopi.nyman@uef.fi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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