{"id":4883,"date":"2014-03-10T23:44:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T23:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/?p=4883"},"modified":"2014-03-10T23:47:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T23:47:19","slug":"cfp-conference-crossroads-studies-mobilities-immobilities-and-the-issue-of-positionality-for-rethinking-area-studies-bonngermany-november-27-28-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/?p=4883","title":{"rendered":"CfP Conference “Crossroads Studies: Mobilities, Immobilities and the Issue of Positionality for Rethinking Area Studies”, Bonn\/Germany, November 27-28, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deadline for Paper Submissions:<\/strong>\u00a0April 30, 2014<\/p>\n

The research network Crossroads Asia: Conflict, Migration, Development, funded by the Area Studies Initiative of the German Ministry of Education and Research since March 2011 questions the validity of the conventional \u2018world regions\u2019 of Central and South Asia as defining bases for Area Studies as conceptualized, organized and taught at German universities. The increasing mobility of people, goods and ideas along Asia\u2019s crossroads \u2013 so the networks assumption \u2013 does not\u00a0 justify a division of the world in territorially fixed \u2018areas\u2019, defined by certain character traits to be found on the \u2018inside\u2019, but instead demands for concepts that take these dynamisms into account. The network chose Norbert Elias\u2019 concept of figurations to generate knowledge transgressing conventional areas and brought together researchers trained in Central, South Asian and Iranian Studies with geographers, political scientists, sociologists, linguists and social anthropologists.<\/p>\n

The here proposed conference on \u2018Crossroads Studies\u2019 as research programme aims to bring together the empirical research conducted by the network members with empirical, conceptual and methodological debates on the rethinking of Area Studies \u2013 from Asia just as much as from other parts of the world. It is the explicit aim to identify several empirically-based common lines of thought and emic patterns of\u00a0 defining socio-cultural and physical spaces relevant for the rethinking of disciplinary constructs of those, namely for Area Studies.<\/p>\n

Our research into the everyday lives of people living between Eastern Iran and Northern India, as well as the Aral Sea and Western China strongly indicates that different mobilities, just as much as immobilities, and thus different types of borders and boundaries are negotiated, take on shape, come into being or are deconstructed again in and as a consequence of human communication and interaction processes.<\/p>\n

The notion of \u2018Crossroads Studies\u2019 therefore refers not only to the study of different types of mobility and immobility along some of Asia\u2019s crossroads and the reflection of the researcher\u2019s own position in this. But in addition it refers to the conscious reflection of these border\/boundary negotiations as processes of the communicative construction of socio-cultural and physical spaces at the crossroads of Area Studies and \u2018systematic\u2019 disciplines. We thus locate ourselves, \u2018Crossroads Studies\u2019, in the centre of what Knorr-Cetina (1999: 12) calls \u201cthe disunity of science\u201d and \u201cthe diversity of the manufacturing systems from which truth effects arise\u201d. It is this diversity \u2013 with reference to \u2018systematic\u2019 disciplines, Area Studies and geographic regions of the world that we hope to nurture in this conference on rethinking of Area Studies, by studying the dynamisms and the blockades of today\u2019s world.<\/p>\n

We thus would like to encourage the submission of innovative papers related to the rethinking of Area Studies from any disciplinary or Area Studies perspective as well as of empirical and\/or conceptual nature. For submission please send a max. 2 page long abstract and a short CV<\/strong> to Dr. Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Mail:\u00a0crossroads@uni-bonn.de<\/a>) by latest April 30th<\/sup><\/strong>. Selected speakers will be expected to submit a full draft of the conference paper by October 15, 2014. The conference organisers will cover the travel expenses of all invited speakers<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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