IPrA Conference - call for papers

[Candy Goodwin]

Valentina, congratulations on your appointment! candy
On Aug 20, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Valentina wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> Sorry for eventual cross-postings. Sabina Perrino and I are organizing a  panel 
> for the IPrA conference (July 2011) and we have space for a few  additional 
> panelists. Work that touches on gender and sexuality as well as citizenship is 
> welcome.If you are interested, please let me know ASAP.
> 
> 
> Call for Papers
> Making Citizens: Discursive Practices at the Boundary of Nationhood
> IPrA Conference, 3-8 July 2011, Manchester UK
> Organizers: Valentina Pagliai (American University) & Sabina Perrino (University 
> of Michigan at Ann Arbor) 
> The formation of new international bodies, such as the European Union, as well 
> as growing transnational flows, have imposed the pressuring question on the fate 
> of citizenship in the age of globalization.  In particular, scholars have 
> pointed out that citizenship, while usually associated with rights and duties, 
> is very much connected to civic and social participation. However, this type of 
> participation is as much connected to actual citizenship (having an ID or 
> passport, for example, being able to demonstrate legal belonging or residency – 
> as in the case of immigrants) as it is to class and race. Images of who is a 
> citizen or not may be completely separate from the ability to produce a passport 
> or an ID – and participation and social inclusion similarly pass through class 
> and racial lines. Cultural and social capital can also influence the ability of 
> the person to participate to “citizenship”: – for example, in Italy US citizens 
> are not considered “extracomunitari” (a word that is also racialized, meaning 
> ‘coming from outside the European Union,’ but applied only to certain categories 
> of immigrants). New models of citizenship are thus emerging that may reproduce 
> or distinguish themselves from a classic model of citizenship as simple 
> belonging to a nation state - either by jus solis or jus sanguinis - and as 
> connected to particular rights that may be additional or different from human 
> rights accorded to both citizens and non-citizens alike. 
> 
> In this panel, we start from a consideration of everyday and institutional 
> discursive practices as a fundamental site for the study of citizenship. Using a 
> linguistic anthropological and pragmatic perspective, we argue that a careful 
> attention to these discursive practices can help better understand nationhood in 
> terms of belonging, the racialization of the Self, the gendering of citizenship, 
> and so forth. 
> We welcome contributions exploring everyday and institutional discursive 
> practices about citizenship produced by different social actors: ordinary 
> people, political representatives, immigrants, immigration officers, etc. The 
> papers may consider, for example:
> -       How the citizen is imagined in micro-narratives, as well as in longer 
> narratives that may be produced in everyday encounters, in focus groups, or in 
> interview settings. How is citizenship talked about? How is it imagined in 
> everyday encounters?
> -       The way citizenship is presented in everyday discursive practices 
> produced in educational settings, such as schools, ESL programs, citizenship 
> classes, and so forth. In the educational institutions ideas about citizenship 
> may be reflected in the creation of language curricula, for example for the 
> teaching of a second language.
> -       The discursive practices that connect citizenship to the use of 
> particular languages or varieties, either produced at the everyday level or 
> proposed by the mass media or political parties (one only has to think of the 
> recent laws passed in Arizona regarding teaching with a “foreign” accent).
> -       The narratives that reflect political ideologies about citizenship, 
> produced by mass-media or political parties, and their connection to linguistic 
> ideologies.
> -       The macro-level discursive practices produced by institutions, including 
> legal views of citizenship and belonging.
> -       Discursive practices that connect citizenship to identity and senses of 
> belonging and place.
> In all these contexts, everyday discursive practices are an important site in 
> which citizenship is proposed in conversations and in other forms of language 
> use. The papers proposed can look at both spoken and written language, and 
> should have a focus on language use. Contributions that examine the intersection 
> of citizenship, race and gender, or racial, class and gender identities are 
> particularly welcome.
>  Best,
> 
> 
> Valentina Pagliai
> 
> Department of Anthropology
> American University
> Washington, DC 20016
> 
> Phone# (908) 668-4840  (h)
> 
> 
> 
> There Is No Place Like Everywhere
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Candy Goodwin
  Anthropology
  UCLA
  Los Angeles CA 90095-1553
       mgoodwin at anthro.ucla.edu
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/goodwin



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