[Linganth] EASA Panel 'Transforming Communication in a Neoliberal World'

[Siragusa, Laura]

Dear all,



*Apologies for cross-posting*



We would like to invite you to submit a paper to our panel <https://easaonline.org/conferences/easa2022/cfp> at the EASA Conference, held at Queen’s University Belfast on 26-29 July 2022. The deadline for the papers is 21 March 2022. Here you can find the title, short and long abstracts. For any question, please feel free to contact either me or Shukti Chaudhuri-Brill through the EASA website.



Title:

Transforming Communication in a Neoliberal World (Panel P113)



Short Abstract:

This panel is interested in the connections between communication and migration in a time of neoliberal global contingency. It explores how people adapt to change driven by the neoliberal labour market in and through communicative practices.



Long Abstract

People have been moving and migrating since time immemorial, however, in the last few decades new patterns of movement have emerged, driven among other reasons by the present socio-economic contingency and neoliberal globalization. This is also reflected in the way people communicate. This panel aims to gather papers that investigate how migrants, (seasonal) workers that are affected by the neoliberal job market, and overall individuals, which find themselves in in contact with people of different background and thus employ different communicative practices, adapt and transform their communication in the encounters. While not limited to these, some examples might encompass language contact in multilingual labour environments, translanguaging, and linguistic diversity. The questions the panel is addressing are:

- How do individuals adjust their verbal and non-verbal communicative practices in relation to the neoliberal globalisation? In what ways are communicative practices affected by the circumstances created by the neoliberal labour market with all its entanglements?

- What is the role played by non-human agencies (including new technologies) and intersectionality in the changes in communication?

- Which social inequalities are re-enforced or created anew in the process through communication?

The panel is broad in its scope and welcomes papers that take a structural, semiotic, or phenomenological approach to language and communication as well as papers, which provide an analysis of discourse and communicative practices in relation to social intersections and nonhuman agencies. A focus on minority and often discriminated groups is particularly welcome to bring visibility to practices that might have become invisible.



Please note that the conference will take place in a hybrid format.



Looking forward to seeing you at EASA (in person or online!),

Laura

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Laura Siragusa, PhD

Cultural Anthropology

University of Oulu

Finland

email: laura.siragusa at oulu.fi<mailto:laura.siragusa at oulu.fi>

tel: +358294481231

room: B223

UOulu personal profile: https://www.oulu.fi/university/researcher/laura-siragusa



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