[Edling] CFP - Transnational families and media practices: Methods, ethics and critical approaches

[Francis M. Hult via Edling]

Via IALIC...

Transnational families and media practices: methods, ethics and critical
approaches

Transnational families, through their ability to cross borders, connect
cultures, expand the meanings and limits of national belonging, and
negotiate the cultural, linguistic and psychological challenges of
migration, have become exemplary models of “mobile lives” (Elliott and
Urry, 2010). Transnational families offer insights into the contradictions
and complexities of interculturality (Dervin, 2017) as a lived reality
permeating more and less intimate interpersonal experiences. The centrality
of transnational family communication in today’s world is enhanced by
everyday digital media usage, the ubiquity of portable devices and the new
technical affordances of platforms and apps. Transnational families
therefore help us apprehend historical transformations connected to
mediated experiences of crossing borders and interculturality.

While the attention of scholars has intensified around how transnational
families both shape and are shaped by the (urban) spaces they leave and
enter, we contend that more attention needs to be paid to the
methodological and ethical challenges researchers face when studying
transnational families and communities. This conference provides an
opportunity for scholars to discuss the assumptions underpinning their
research and to share critical reflections on the ethical responsibilities
that researchers have when observing transnational families and
communities, including through digital platforms and their connection with
mobility processes in and through cities.

We invite scholars and PhD researchers to submit abstract proposals that
engage with new theoretical, methodological and ethical approaches to the
study of transnational families and their communication practices in Europe
and beyond. We also welcome submissions that can provide historical
perspectives into the (dis)continuities characterizing transnational
families and their media practices. Contributions that call into question
Eurocentric forms of knowledge through decolonial narratives and frameworks
are especially welcome.

Potential topics:

  *   New approaches to the concept of family and transnational relations
in a mediated world
  *   New understandings of transnational families and digital connectivity
  *   Diaspora networks
  *   Creative and participatory methods with transnational families
  *   Ethical and methodological dilemmas on media practices of
transnational families
  *   Home language maintenance and development of transnational families
  *   Transnational families as actors of interculturality
  *   Decolonial approaches to transnational families
  *   Innovative approaches to Family Language Policy and translanguaging
  *   Ethical dilemmas of researching the concept of health within
transnational families
  *   Historical perspectives and focus on (dis)continuities
  *   Transnational families and diverse cities

In addition to the conference, we will be hosting a joint workshop for PhD
students on the 6th of December 2023, in Rotterdam. The workshop will focus
upon innovative methods in studying transnational families/communities,
digital media usage, and ethical challenges associated with this. The
separate application for this one-day workshop can be found here<
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1OEPKIbFtwRh7jE0ckALHMgTyt3Zc8AS16vfZxV9JIUs/edit
>.
Please note that it is possible for Doctoral researchers to attend both the
workshop and the conference, or only one event.

Submission guidelines
Submissions for individual papers should include an abstract (max 400 words
including keywords and main references) and a short biographical note (max
100 words). Abstracts should be submitted electronically, using the online
submission form<
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdZ0abArZ0WnXJhewFuO_0FrtBxFULuHO6eP6x2rqDDua56FQ/viewform?usp=share_link>
by April 28th, 2023.
Submissions for panels should be submitted via e-mail to
ecreadmmicc at gmail.com<mailto:ecreadmmicc at gmail.com> by 28 April 2023.
Submissions should include a chairperson, a rationale for the panel (250
words), and the names of four speakers including their abstract (250 words)
and biographical note (max 100 words).

We recommend that you include the following information in your abstract:
∙An introductory statement which explains the background/significance of
your research
∙A description of your theoretical framework and methodology
∙An overview of the main findings of your research
∙A concluding statement

The conference will be in person only. Proposal acceptance notification:
mid-June.
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