24.164, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/South Africa

linguist at linguistlist.org linguist at linguistlist.org
Thu Jan 10 18:10:08 UTC 2013


LINGUIST List: Vol-24-164. Thu Jan 10 2013. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 24.164, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/South Africa

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>

Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin Madison
Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin Madison
Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin Madison
Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin Madison
Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin Madison
       <reviews at linguistlist.org>

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Do you want to donate to LINGUIST without spending an extra penny? Bookmark
the Amazon link for your country below; then use it whenever you buy from
Amazon!

USA: http://www.amazon.com/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlist-20
Britain: http://www.amazon.co.uk/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlist-21
Germany: http://www.amazon.de/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlistd-21
Japan: http://www.amazon.co.jp/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlist-22
Canada: http://www.amazon.ca/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlistc-20
France: http://www.amazon.fr/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlistf-21

For more information on the LINGUIST Amazon store please visit our
FAQ at http://linguistlist.org/amazon-faq.cfm.

Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alison at linguistlist.org>
================================================================  


Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:09:11
From: Quentin Williams [qwilliams at uwc.ac.za]
Subject: Cities on the Move: Mobilities and Sensibilities

E-mail this message to a friend:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=24-164.html&submissionid=6517200&topicid=3&msgnumber=1
 
Full Title: Cities on the Move: Mobilities and Sensibilities 

Date: 03-Jul-2013 - 05-Jul-2013
Location: Cape Town (Western Cape), South Africa 
Contact Person: Camerine Scott
Meeting Email: camerines at millenniumtravel.co.za
Web Site: http://millenniumconferences.co.za/cities/index.php 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 28-Feb-2013 

Meeting Description:

Urban environments are at the nexus of an extensive social transformation in Africa. New political forms, increased participation of broad populations, and the emergence of new discourses of citizenship are taking place in contexts of massive demographic change, encounters and crossings across laminated and stratified identities of race, ethnicity, class, language, sexuality and gender and technological innovation. These developments are fuelled by vertical and horizontal processes of globalisation refigured through the particularities of the local urban context and local institutions. On the one hand, these developments are part of the formation of a constructive and constitutive urban citizenry that is increasingly ‘assuming control’, where urban residents and commercial developers are proclaiming, reclaiming, appropriating and creating new spaces via actions as diverse as settlement and construction, urban design, place (re)naming, festivals and monumentalism. On the other hand, contemporary urban spaces and trajectories are also formed in multivocal narratives of historical, social and geographical displacement, reflecting difficult encounters and uneasy departures, anomie and estrangement, invisibility and lost memorabilia, fluid heritage and buried icons of identity and belonging as central features of the mundane urban sensibilities of the new urban citizenry. 

A considerable amount of research into cities - and consequently of policy making - is based on an unreconstructed paradigm of empiricist urban research that treats urban places as more or less fixed, technical objects. Urban planners and policy makers work with the formally built and managed environment. By contrast, the myriad personal daily actions, activities, events and conversations that endlessly constitute and reconstitute cities in the image of their inhabitants are less well accounted for. This is especially the case for the sensibilities and emotional geographies of city space (fear, apprehension, and their modes of narration and performance), as well as the semiotics and performance of violence and contestation in urban spaces, feeling in and out of place in the quotidian (re)making and meaning(s) of the city. The conference will focus on such city sensibilities of the everyday and experiential, approaching the city as a social construction and as a social imaginary; exploring the production, consumption and appropriation of urban spaces, circulation within them, and the semiotics, spectacle and performativity of the urban. 

The conference aims to bring together established and emerging researchers whose research treats urban spaces as highly differentiated and unstable sites, the nature and significance of which is constantly produced and consumed by citizens in their daily routine of accommodation, adjustment, negotiation and challenge; as a multifaceted social and cultural construction whose purpose and sustainability is in the hands of its residents. We seek to encourage the participation of theorists and practitioners within the fields of architecture, anthropology, film, literature, culture studies, visual art, history and urban studies, heritage, art and culture, linguistics and multilingual studies. One of our intentions is that those studying cities in different parts of the world will enter into dialogue with African city specialists.

Call for Papers:

The first call for papers is now open. Abstracts should:

- address the conference themes;
- comprise a maximum of 300 words;
- be uploaded in Microsoft Word format;
- be submitted online using the ‘Submit an abstract’ available on our webpage; and
- be submitted by 28 February 2013.

We invite submissions for presentations across a wide variety of genres, ranging from formal academic papers and poster sessions to exhibitions, performances or other multimodal events.

Submissions for formal academic papers may take the form of stand-alone papers or be part of suggested workshops or round table events on a select number of core themes. 

Presenters are invited to submit proposals for workshops or round table events comprising no more than 5 papers on any relevant theme. Due to limited space, the conference committee reserves the right to not accept more than a limited number of workshops or round table events proposals. All submissions will be judged on their academic and/or creative merits, their fit with the conference themes and the coherence of the contributions. Each workshop and roundtable proposal should submit the overriding theme of the workshop and separate abstracts for each of the participants.

Should your workshop/roundtable not be successful, please indicate if you would also be amenable to presenting one or more of the proposed papers as stand-alone paper presentations.

Paper presentations will be limited to 30 minutes including discussion time. 

Workshops or round table events should preferably be limited to 5 papers.







----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-24-164	
----------------------------------------------------------



More information about the LINGUIST mailing list