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<div>The Languages Section of the Ninth International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS IX) in Umeå, Sweden, 8-12 June 2017, is still looking for submissions for papers! The deadline<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> is 16 January 2017. </span></div>
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<div>In particular, we'd like to draw your attention to section 11.3:</div>
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<div><b>Linguistic Economies of Place:</b></div>
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<p><font size="2">Throughout history, languages have been made into a powerful tool for making and unmaking boundaries between people. With the idea of people as having a single language and a single geographical space/territory, language (and ways of speaking)
became ideologically, politically and emotionally linked to both ethnicity and territoriality. Language thus has evolved into (and been maintained as) one of the main principles of social, ethnic and territorial definition and differentiation, i.e. of defining
who we (vs. they) are and where we belong. Language thus has a capacity to index place or implicitly link people to particular place-based or territorial identities. However, as part of changing political environment and the ongoing negotiation for control
over lands and resources in recent years, we can observe shifts from language and ethnicity to territoriality, where “land is often taken as more iconic of identity than language” (Schreyer 2016; see also Krupnik and Vakhtin 2002: 19, 34).
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<p><font size="2">Here, we define 'linguistic economy of place' as how language, territoriality and conceptions of belonging/identity coincide (see Schwalbe 2015). Drawing on Bourdieu’s (1992) notion of linguistic capital, where language is seen as a social
relation within system of exchange, and on linguistic ecologies (Mülhäusler 1996), we are interested in how language may be a symbolic material commodity that circulates in a situated manner, gaining value from its connection to the places in which it is spoken
and/or written. Our panel seeks to investigate how both language and territory (linked to these ideas of belonging) can become resources for (re)creating identity - be it regional or ethnic.
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<p><font size="2">We wish to explore how these ideas of belonging to a particular place, expressed and signified in a language, form an inseparable part of local language economies, i.e. systems of valuation and display applied in a group’s dynamics. We are
also interested in exploring how these ideas of language and land together are linked to claims of ownership or responsibility, and how they figure into the “rhetoric of othering” (Riggins 1997), solidifying the boundaries between groups. Finally, we seek
to better understand how these ideas of belonging might be contested within the global economic market (e.g. trends in global discourse, like sustainability discourse and/or ‘save the Arctic’ discourse?) and the on-going shift from ethnicity to territoriality
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<div>For full call for papers and abstracts and submission information, please see: </div>
<div><a href="http://www.trippus.se/web/Presentation/web.aspx?evid=l+k2p0UcaP8eXy9TNfnXsQ==&ecid=loNJV+HVzL0o7zbDGv/zsQ==&ln=eng&view=category&template=desktoph" target="_blank" style="font-size: 10pt;">http://www.trippus.se/web/Presentation/web.aspx?evid=l+k2p0UcaP8eXy9TNfnXsQ==&ecid=loNJV+HVzL0o7zbDGv/zsQ==&ln=eng&view=category&template=desktoph</a></div>
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<div>Please feel free to write to Jenanne Ferguson (jenannef@unr.edu) or Daria Morgounova Schwalbe (daria.schwalbe@gmail.com<span style="font-size: 10pt;">) with any questions.</span></div>
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<div>Thank you, and we hope to see you there,</div>
<div>Jenanne and Daria</div>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px">Jenanne Ferguson, PhD
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<div>1664 North Virginia Street</div>
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<div>Office: Ansari 506, (775) 682-7629</div>
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