[Discussion] "Face to face: Connecting Distance and Proximity"

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Call for Papers

We would like to invite potential paper givers to submit abstracts to=20
the following workshop within:

The 8th Biennial conference of EASA
"Face to face: Connecting Distance and Proximity"
8th-12th September 2004, Vienna, Austria

Workshop:

Encounters of the post-socialist kind: The movement of goods and=20
identities within and beyond the former socialist world (please see the=20
abstract below)

Organised by:

Lale Yal=E7in-Heckmann
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, P.O. Box 110351,
06017 Halle/Saale, Germany
Tel: +49-345-2927226
Fax: +49-345-2927502
Email: yalcin@eth.mpg.de

and

H=FClya Demirdirek
Department of Anthropology, The University of Lethbridge
4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, Alberta
T1J 3M4 Canada
Tel: +1-403-3292599
Fax: +1-403-3295109,
Email: hulya.demirdirek@uleth.ca

Discussant:

Frances Pine
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
Pine@eth.mpg.de

Abstract of the workshop theme:

The socialist markets involved the delivery of goods and the movement of=20
people across huge distances, but they were centrally organised and had=20
clear rules and norms which could be circumvented in equally=20
well-defined ways. The emergence of post-socialist markets entails new=20
forms of encounters, risk taking, knowledge and relationships. The=20
distances may still be as vast and the journeys as cumbersome, but the=20
paths of relationships have changed - as have the connections, the goods=20
that are exchanged and the people. Azerbaijanis, for instance,=20
participated in vegetable trading for a while within the Soviet Union,=20
but now their trade has become transnational, relations international,=20
their identities non-citizen, encounters multinational and racialised.=20
This workshop seeks to ask the following kinds of questions: to what=20
degree are new types of knowledge necessary in these new markets and new=20
market relations? What sorts of values and norms are being created,=20
reshaped or challenged through these new encounters within and beyond=20
the post-socialist markets? How are new identities and communities=20
created through the goods exchanged, encounters made and relations=20
formed? With which theoretical and methodological frameworks can these=20
new relations of exchange and identities best be understood?

Deadline for submitting the abstract: 1st of March 2004

Final date for confirming whether the proposed paper has been accepted:
15th of March

Length of the abstract: 150-200 words

Time for presenting the paper: 20 minutes

PLEASE send abstracts to BOTH of the conveners at the mail addresses abov=
e.

For more details about the conference, please see:
http://www.univie.ac.at/voelkerkunde/easa

or for EASA:
http://www.easaonline.org