FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
A research conference sponsored jointly by:
Community, Identity and Displacement Research Network, Victoria University
Identity Research Network, Swinburne University
Moondani Balluk, Victoria University
Thursday 16th – Friday 17th February, 2017
Victoria University, City Campus, Melbourne Australia
Displacement, rupture and transformation increasingly characterise the nature of 21st century belonging and space, with important implications for identities, change and resistance. Despite the fluidity of such movement, we are also witnessing struggles to reinscribe prevailing privilege and power relations. As nations and communities deal with mass migration, economic displacement and environmental impact, a variety of responses to crisis and resistance are emerging. Political communities and identities, which are organised non-hierarchically and defy territory, and make use of virtual spaces, offer new ways of thinking about change, community and belonging. At the same time, we are also witnessing the revival of borders and the use of physical and virtual space to control and contain such impulses. From new cartographies and geographies, to different flows of life and modalities of organisation, space and place are constantly being revised and reinvented.
We invite papers that address following themes from an interdisciplinary perspective:
- The politics of privilege, displacement and boundary-making: this can include urban design and built environment, architecture, political economy, security, and other fields
- Space, borders and belonging at the local, national or global scales, including the digital and non-material, as well as radical geographies which respond to mass migration, urban diversity and the reconfiguration of political space
- New meanings of community: this can include new strategies of cultural identity and resistance, new solidarities, and possibilities for belonging.
Abstracts to be sent to CIDRN@vu.edu.au by 30 September 2016.
Abstract length 250, MS word format as email attachment with subject line PPPconference.abstract. Include your contact details in the abstract.
The conference will be followed by a refereed publication and all proposed contributions to this volume need to reach organisers by Friday 31 March 2017.
Further information from:
Christine Agius cagius@swin.edu.au or CIDRN@vu.edu.au
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