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- International Conference, 3 - 4 July 2008, Amsterdam, Ethnographies of
Gender and Globalization, Call for panels and papers.
Globalization
is the result of the rapid exchange of ideas, peoples, goods, capital,
information and technologies, and the general compression of distances and
time. Globalization processes have a large impact on people's everyday lives.
Even in the most remote parts of the world, people and locations are being
connected to each other. This interconnectedness can be seen as the core
feature of globalization. In turn, people respond to new challenges and opportunities
offered by globalization. Their daily actions produce, transform and determine
the specific directions that globalization processes may take.
The last decade, anthropology and other social sciences have produced an
impressive body of literature on globalization. Globalization from a gender
perspective, however, is still an exciting and innovative area to explore.
Gender and feminist anthropology is a discipline par excellence that can make
understandable how globalization and everyday life are interrelated, especially
through its ethnographical methodology. Feminist scholarship has shown that
globalization is not a gender-neutral phenomenon. Globalization has different
outcomes for women and men. It challenges them in different ways and offers them
different opportunities. Gender constructions shape globalization processes,
which in turn confirm, construct and change gender notions. These developments
result in profound changes in family life, family composition, cultural
expressions, gender relations, and the way people interact with each other.
With this conference LOVA wishes to create a forum for anthropologists, social
scientists and other experts who study the interweaving of gender and
globalization from an ethnographical perspective. How do women and men
understand globalization and how do they experience globalization processes in
their everyday lives? What are the challenges they face and what opportunities
open up to them? How does globalization confirm and reconstruct existing gender
and other social inequalities? Does it have a potential for the empowerment of
women and men and their social mobility or not? How does globalization
influence constructions of femininity and masculinity and how do these
constructions in turn give direction to processes of globalization? And, last
but not least, is globalization still a useful theoretical concept or have we
entered a new, post-globalization era and are we in need of new
conceptualizations?
Participation and registration
LOVA invites social science scholars to participate in this international
conference by presenting their research in an individual paper or panel. We
particularly encourage participants to submit audio-visuals and other
alternative ways of presenting their research.
Participants may register through sending individual paper or panel proposals
to
LOVAnetwork!@hotmail.com before
February 1, 2008.
Individual paper proposals consist of a short abstract. Please also mention
affiliation, address, email-address and discipline. Panel proposals include a
short panel abstract, various paper abstracts and names of organizers/chairs,
presenters and possibly a discussant. Please also mention affiliation, address,
email-address and discipline of all participants.
A number of papers will be selected for publication.
Preferred panel format: Panels last 1 hour and 45 minutes. Panel organizers
have a certain freedom in the number of papers they wish to present and the
length of the presentations. Nevertheless, we encourage 15-minute paper
presentations. For example, a panel may include 5 paper presentations of 15
minutes each or 4 papers and a discussant. This leaves time for general
discussion and questions of 30 minutes.
Participants will be informed whether their papers and panels are accepted as
soon as possible and not later than February 15, 2008.
To complete their registration, all participants pay the registration fee of €
90,- before April 1, 2008. Students pay a reduced fee. More information will
follow.
Language
The conference will be held in English.
Program
The program will be made available in April 2008.
Location
The conference will be held in the centre of Amsterdam. The location will be
announced as soon as possible. Please visit our website: www.lovanetwerk.nl
Hotel accommodation
Hotel accommodation can be arranged through internet. We kindly refer you to:
www.book-a-hotel-in-amsterdam.com.
The conference is sponsored by CEDLA, Centre for Latin American Research and
Documentation. LOVA is the Netherlands Association for Gender and Feminist
Anthropology and provides a professional network for its members since 1979.
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