[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: International conference in Salzburg/Austria, November 24-25, 2011: The logics of change - poverty, place, identity and social transformation mechanisms

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    *International conference in Salzburg/Austria, November 24-25, 2011: 
The logics of change - poverty, place, identity and social 
transformation mechanisms*
*Location:* 	Austria 
<http://www.h-net.org/announce/geography.cgi?geography=Austria>

	

	

	

We live in a world of constant change. While this is an intrinsic fact 
and experience of our daily life, change itself has many guises ranging 
from very sudden, often unexpected occurrences like job loss or natural 
and man-made hazards (like in Japan) to very slow, subtle and hardly 
perceivable processes like demographic change or changes in moral 
attitudes. Change affects us directly in our immediate environment but 
also beyond our 'own doorstep', in other continents: on the other side 
of the world. Transformation may be something perceived just by an 
individual or by society as a whole. Change can be a linear process of 
gradual transition, but it can also be recurring, wave-like; sometimes 
desirable, sometimes not. Change is thus associated and correlated with 
logic at manifold levels and varying in its complexity and extent. As 
such, this conference is trans-disciplinary in nature and addresses both 
theorists in Philosophy, Sociology, Economics or Geography, but also 
practitioners in wider fields of enquiry and research.

Background of the Conference: the organizers of the conference have 
initiated a "social festival", entitled "Do something and things will 
change". It deals with awareness of poverty and inequality, and aims at 
local empowerment and participation. Privately funded and sponsored, the 
festival aims to encourage local people, businesses and institutions. It 
is hoped that social commitment both at the local and regional level can 
be increased, thus contributing towards improving the 'quality of life' 
for those hit by (sudden) changing circumstances. This year the 
festival, whose character is explicitly bottom-up, takes place in the 
Lungau region (in the south of the Province of Salzburg, Austria).

For more information and full CfP please visit: 
http://www.ifz-salzburg.at/?p=5738

Abstracts of approx. 300 words are welcome for one of the four sessions 
below and should be submitted to akoch at ifz-salzburg.at and 
elisabeth.kapferer at sbg.ac.at . Deadline for submission is June 15, 2011. 
Notification of acceptance will be given by June 30, 2011. Invited 
colleagues are asked to prepare a paper for publication in spring 2012: 
deadline for submitting manuscripts is October 30, 2011.

Session I: "Social festivals" as a tool to eradicate poverty and promote 
local identity
"Social festivals" deal with local knowledge such as the everyday 
experience of and insight into social, cultural and local conditions, 
and they mirror specific perceptions and local theories of their 
settings. Topics are: To what extent can festivals promote local 
identities? In how far can they help support social cohesion and 
empowerment, and can they contribute to reducing poverty and social 
disparities? And do they contribute to a responsible, sustainable 
regional development?

Session II: Methods for understanding and evaluating social belonging, 
regional embeddedness, and local acceptance
Manifold relationships between the individual Lebenswelt and 
social-spatial environments are to be discerned when surveys are carried 
out to better understand agency and social belonging. Additionally, 
different scales and scopes of complexity raise the question of an 
adequate integration of change concepts in respective methods. In this 
session we wish to discuss methods and techniques from a wide range of 
disciplines. Examples are (but are not restricted to): Social network 
analyses, social capital surveys, action-setting analyses, qualitative 
interviews, or multivariate statistics.

Session III: What is a 'contented and happy life' in a world of 
inequality, exclusion, and poverty?
A "good life" does not solely depend on money and, or material wealth. 
It also relies heavily on the intangibles of life such as opportunities, 
traditions and values, fairness and recognition, and belonging. At the 
same time we live in a world where the preconditions for a contented and 
happy life are constantly at risk. Bearing this in mind, we will focus 
on ideas of what a "good life" comprises, and on factors that can 
influence well-being in different circumstances and different areas of 
life.

Session IV: Theories & reflections about locality, agency, regional 
awareness, and identity.
This session intends to introduce and illustrate different theoretical 
approaches which shed light on social-spatial scale enquiries, hybrid 
phenomena, but also on local theories of agency, resilience, poverty, 
vulnerability, and identity issues in order to better understand the 
complexity of a 'good and happy' life under contemporary conditions of 
globalization, crisis, risk, and uncertainty.

In addition to the contact e-mail listed below you may contact us using 
the following address: elisabeth.kapferer at sbg.ac.at

	Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Koch
akoch at ifz-salzburg.at
ifz -- International Research Center Salzburg
Mönchsberg 2a, A -- 5020 Salzburg
http://www.ifz-salzburg.at/?p=1322

Mag. Elisabeth Kapferer
elisabeth.kapferer at sbg.ac.at
Center for Ethics and Poverty Research (University of Salzburg)
Mönchsberg 2a, A - 5020 Salzburg
www.uni-salzburg.at/zea

Email: akoch at ifz-salzburg.at <mailto:akoch at ifz-salzburg.at>
Visit the website at http://www.ifz-salzburg.at/?p=5738

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