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Call for Papers
Theme: Identity and Multicultural Politics
Type: 7th International Symposium
Institution: International Network for Alternative Academia
Centro de Estudios Demográficos, Urbanos y Ambientales (CEDUA),
Colegio de México (COLMEX)
Location: Mexico City, D.F. (Mexico)
Date: 4.–6.11.2014
Deadline: 21.10.2014
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Part of the Research Program on:
Recognition, Agency and the Politics of Otherness
Partner: CEDUA-COLMEX
Venue: El Colegio de México
(Camino al Ajusco 20, Pedregal de Santa Teresa, 10740)
Main Campus (Sala Alfonso Reyes)
Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico
This trans-disciplinary research project is interested in identifying
the conflicting social forces and political realities of
multicultural experiences, of the processes of identity formation and
of the dynamics of recognition in diverse societal, cultural and
political contexts.
Identity claims and social identity formations have become more
prevalent, fluid and less fixed throughout societies. People in their
local, regional, national and even international contexts are
systematically making claims about group identities, which have
consequences for politics, social relations and a cultural sense of
belonging. In the past decades, important changes have been witnessed
in legal procedures, constitutions and cultural normative frameworks
that have produced formal legitimation for recognition claims based
on identity, as well as political backlashes against these
initiatives. What are the lessons to be learned from these complex
processes and the considerations to be had for envisioning and
contributing to a future politics of recognition?
We invite colleagues from all disciplines and professions interested
in exploring and explaining these issues in a collective,
deliberative and dialogical environment to send presentation
proposals which address these general questions or the following
themes:
1. New Challenges for a Contemporary Politics of Recognition
* Policy and Normative Transformations Pushed by Identity Based
Social Movements
- How do we critically account for these normative experiences?
- How might the history of these movements be written?
- From a bottom-up perspective, what have we learned?
* Social Realities Lived and Cultural Changes Enacted under
Multicultural Policies
- How has policy-making responded to the needs for social and
cultural recognition? What are the virtues and problems with this
route?
- From a top-down perspective, what have we learned?
- How have these conflicts and tensions, demands and needs, dreams
and goals been normalized?
- What do these processes mean for the construction of identity?
* Multicultural Backlashes
- Has the ‘multicultural project’ become defunct and/or inadequate?
Is it any longer feasible?
- What motives and reasoning inform such assertions?
- How do these political claims affect the current debate on
multiculturalism in specific national and regional contexts and
internationally?
2. Talking Back: Contemporary Identity Formations
* Exploring New Identity Formations
- What are the new identities that are emerging?
- Are these new identities more fluid or less fluid than other
formations?
- Are these new identities establishing different forms of relation
to the nation state?
* Context and Politics
- How do these new identity formations relate to other more
established identities or to state sanctioned identities?
- Is there an inter-identity formation politics that needs to be
accounted for?
- How are these new identities talking back? In what ways are they
unsettling and/or supporting the current system of state-centered
sanctioned recognition?
* Contestation and Conciliations
- Are these new emerging identities questioning old formations; if
so, how?
- What means both social and political are being used to contest
their non-recognition?
- What avenues – state-centered or otherwise – are being sought to
secure recognition?
- Is there a new politics of recognition that is not based on
identity claims?
3. Nationalism & Inclusion
* Re-emerging Nationalisms and the Politics of Inclusion
- What effects have massive migratory flows had on a politics of
inclusion and on territorial forms of belonging?
- How are belonging and inclusion being redefined both within and
outside nationalistic discourses?
- How are borders and frontiers being re-deployed today? Are they
under a re-conceptualization? How are these impacting old and new
identity formations?
* Migration and Subject Positions
- How are migrants accommodating to conditions of discrimination and
marginality they face in host territories?
- How are migrants organizing politically and claiming their rights
and place within host nations?
- What kind of battles over borders and frontiers are we witnessing?
What are these conflicts and struggles doing to our notions of
borders and frontiers?
- How might inclusive categories of hospitality and cosmopolitanism
have political and cultural transformative value?
* Territory, Home and Rooted-ness
- What new conceptions of belonging and its link to territory, home
and roots can be developed to better accommodate diversity and
otherness?
- How do we generate concepts of belonging that are more fluid and
in sync to the current conditions of mobility, migration and
diversity?
- How do we give collective credence and legitimacy to multiplicity
and emphasize bonds rather than place as a more fluid yet stable
sense of belonging?
4. Art, Contestation & Aesthetic Critique
* Aesthetic Expressions of Identity Construction
- In what ways is art being employed as a means for redefining and
reconfiguring identity at both the personal and societal level?
- How much do these aesthetic experiences seep into the fabric of
social life?
- How can we explore the productive effect of art on forms of
identity construction?
* New Voices and New Critiques
- How is art and art expression responding to the need to redefine
identity?
- How might art serve as a model in the creation of new ways of
experiencing self and otherness, of understanding identity
formation processes?
* Unsettling Stable Forms of Identity
- How can we participate and foster processes of critical and
creative aesthetic innovation for identity perception and agency?
- Is their a space for playfulness and joy that can come our way by
the exercise of art for the insertion of instability in identity
formations?
5. Multicultural Interlacing & Contemporary Life
* History and Multiplicity
- How can we tell the long history of the experience of
multiculturalism?
- How have new patterns of massive migration and globalization
contributed and changed the telling of this story?
* Image and Representations
- How can more fluid and less rigid perceptions of social and
cultural forms of identity be constructed?
- What conception of responsibility must be developed to accompany
the creation of new models of political agency?
* Horizons
- How might we create new horizons in political, cultural and social
relations between migrants and natives, host and guests, self and
other, center and periphery, privilege and marginality?
- How can we instill a sense of co-responsibility and accountability
in societies and cultures alike?
6. New Bonds for Self & Other
* Self and Other Intertwined
- As identities are socially constructed, performatively enacted and
re-made, how are societies and cultures acknowledging these
processes?
- What are the political consequences of recognizing the
intertwining of self and other?
* Bewildered Self
- Can the self be defined outside its binds to the other?
- How can we account for a selfhood that lives under the fantasy of
being unlinked from other?
- Must the self/other relationship be conceived in terms of
hostility? What new models might allow for a redefinition of the
bond as vital dependency and interlaced identity formations?
* Self in the Other & Other in the Self
- How are people, groups and organizations contributing to an ethics
of social relations that embeds self in other and vice versa?
- What can we learn from these experiences?
If you are interested in participating in this Annual Symposium,
submit a 400 to 500 word abstract as soon as possible and no later
than Tuesday 21st of October, 2014. (For justifiable cases, we do
uphold a tolerance period of eight days.)
Please use the following template for your submission:
First: Author(s);
Second: Affiliation, if any;
Third: Email Address;
Fourth: Title of Abstract and Proposal;
Fifth: The 400 to 500 Word Abstract.
To submit an abstract online follow these steps:
1) Go to our webpage: www.alternative-academia.net
2) Select your Symposium of choice within the list of annual events
(listed by period and city)
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4) Create a User Name and Password for our system and log in
5) Click on the Call for Papers for the Symposium
6) Go to the end of the Call for Papers page and click on the First
Step of Submission Process button
7) Follow the instructions provided for completing the abstract
submission process
For every abstract proposal submitted, we acknowledge receipt. If you
do not receive a reply from us within three days, you should assume
the submission process was not completed successfully. Please try
again or contact our technical support for clarifications.
All presentation and paper proposals that address these questions and
issues will be fully considered and evaluated. Evaluation of abstract
submissions will be ongoing, from the opening date of Monday 5th of
May, 2014. All Prospective Delegates can expect a reply time to their
submission of three weeks.
Accepted abstracts will require a full draft paper by Thursday 30th
of October, 2014. Papers are for a 20 minute presentation, 8 to 10
pages long, double spaced, Times New Roman 12. All papers presented
at the symposium are eligible for publication as part of a digital or
paperback book.
We invite colleagues and people interested in participating to
disseminate this call for papers. Thank you for sharing and
cross-listing where and whenever appropriate.
Registration
Delegate Registration Fee:
357.00 EUR (Registration Opening 27-10-2014)
Non-Presenting Delegate Fee:
236.00 EUR (Registration Opening 27-10-2014)
INAA Scholarship Fee:
180.00 EUR (Registration Opening 27-10-2014)
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International Network for Alternative Academia
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