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WORLD CONGRESS ON MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES (WOCMES) Barcelona, 19-24 July 2010 - http://wocmes.iemed.org/en/home/ Panel on the Political Economy of New Tourism Mobilities in the MENA Region Organisers: Dr. Ala Al-Hamarneh – University of Mainz– Germany a.al-hamarneh@geo.uni-mainz.de Professor Kevin Hannam – University of Sunderland– UK Kevin.hannam@sunderland.ac.uk Dr Marcus Stephenson – Middlesex University Dubai - UAE m.stephenson@mdx.ac Call for Papers The journal Mobilities states that contemporary “mobilities encompasse both the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world, as well as more local processes of daily transportation, movement through public space, and the travel of material things within everyday life. Recent developments in transportation and communications infrastructures, along with new social and cultural practices of mobility have elicited a number of new research initiatives for understanding the connections between these diverse mobilities.” In the last ten years new trends and dynamics of tourism mobilities in the MENA region have been noticed: the boom of intra-regional tourisms, the dramatic increase in intra-regional FDI in tourism services, neo-liberal urban restructuring of tourism places and spaces, the establishment of various new intraregional transportation infrastructure and so on. While numerous trends have been driven by decisions taken at the political level, others express growing profit-oriented investments strategies. For example Libyan investments in Tunisia and Egypt are seen as a result of the new political orientation of the country. Beyond investments, the visa-issuing policies and the establishment of new transportation infrastructures reflect new tourism regulatory frameworks that need to be examined. For example, on the one hand, Iranians cannot travel to Egypt and Jordan due to visa restrictions, but they are more than welcome in the UAE, Syria and Iraq. Turkey and Lebanon have established a no-visa regime for visitors from GCC countries and Jordan. Furthermore, new developments in communications have also elicited new intraregional connections between both migrants and tourists within and outside the MENA region. Such connections are, of course, emphatically gendered as well as structured by different ethnic backgrounds and shared heritages. These heritages bring to the fore the material nature of many tourism mobilities in terms of the movement of everyday things that become important to sustain the political economy of tourism. This panel thus aims to discuss from a political economy perspective the various new tourism mobilities in the MENA region and seeks submissions that take up the above dimensions in order to explore the diverse economic, communicational, material and migrational experiences of tourism mobilities. To participate please send a short abstract of 300 words by email to one of the organizer(s) by the 15th October 2009. All abstracts will be refereed. 25/06/2009 3rd International Conference on Mediterranean Studies Athens, Greece, 31 March-3 April 2010 For further information see the conference website: http://www.atiner.gr/docs/Mediterranean.htm Deadline to submit: 5th of October 2009. 22/06/2009 "British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Graduate Conference" Exeter, UK, 03-04 September 2009 Fifth annual gathering of graduate students in Middle Eastern Studies to be held at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. Papers accepted from all disciplines. Keynote speaker: Professor Carole Hillenbrand. For further information, contact the conference team at brismes2009@ex.ac.uk; or visit: http://huss.exeter.ac.uk/iais/all-events/conferences/BRISMES/index.php 17/06/2009 "Tourism, Religion & Culture: Regional Development through Meaningful Tourism Experiences"
To be held 27th -30th October 2009 in LECCE, ITALY The conference is organized by the University of Salento (Lecce) in cooperation with: • University of Bologna, Italy, • University of Haifa, Israel, • University of Munich, Germany and • ATLAS For further details about the Conference, please visit the conference website at http://www.tourismreligionandculture.eu 15/06/2009 Tourism, Culture and Territorial Development: Strategies to Develop Local & Regional Tourism
12/06/2009 Conference: "La Frontière Méditerranéenne du 15e au 17e siècle. Échanges, circulations et affrontements"
9/06/2009 Seventh International Conference on the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T^2 M)
Mobility (T^2 M) invites proposals for papers to be presented at its Seventh International Conference to be held at the Verkehrshaus der
Schweiz (Swiss Museum of Transport), Lucerne, Switzerland from November 5^th till the 8^th , 2009.
well as by the Swiss Museum of Transport. Switzerland’s most visited museum celebrates its 50^th anniversary in 2009 and is being rebuilt and
expanded for this occasion at the time. This year the conference theme is Energy and Innovation’. The CfP ask for papers to this thematic
field but it is at the same time open to all subjects in the history of transport, traffic, and mobility. The language of the conference is English.
what, how or where to one moves – performance, or the conversion of energy into motion, is always preconditioned. The modernisation of
traffic since the 18^th century can be seen as a process in the course of which means of transport that relied in the end on solar energy were
replaced by means of transport that relied on nonrenewable energy. Thus, the focus was shifted from the likes of walking, rowing, sailing,
horseback riding and the usage of animal traction to mechanical means of transport such as the steam engine, the combustion engine and rocket
propulsion.Where did the question of energy figure in the acceleration and intensification of traffic? Where in the choice of a means of
transport, in the question ‘street or ship’? How was energy efficiency for new machines increased? Conversely, how was their environmental
pollution reduced? Why did one choose a specific propulsion? How did the price of energy affect the price of transport and mobility? How big was
the influence of private traffic and energy business thereby, how great the weight of governmental politics?
improvements that shake the economy and the community which means in this case that they produce new means of transport such as train, car or
plane. Which economical, social, cultural and political conditions leveraged which means of transport? Innovations never were the result of
mere business calculations and engineering efforts. Behind those were always sociocultural factors such as the ideology of freedom, the
appetite for adventure and discovery or the play instinct and surge for fame. Also, new combinations of existing means of transport could lead
to innovation. innovation) are eminently favoured: How was the velocity of a means of transport increased without a multiplication of energy consumption? Do
new means of transport prevail mainly in times of war and crisis? Could premodern and antiquated means of transport increase their efficiency
under the pressure of competition of new modes of drive as for example the fast sailing ships that came up under the pressure of the steam boat
around 1850? Is a renaissance of premodern and environmentally sound means of transport imaginable?
these themes. A panel consists of a chair and normally up to three speakers; no commentator is required. We especially encourage
transnational, comparative and transmodal approaches, and welcome proposals exploring theoretical or methodological issues as well as
those of a more empirical nature. Relevant contributions are welcome from historians as well as from cultural geographers, sociologists,
anthropologists, economists, and other scholars who do not define themselves as historians. We especially invite recent entrants to the
profession and doctoral students to submit proposals. all oral presentations will be exhibited in the public area of Switzerland’s most visited museum. *This innovation will contribute to
better promotion of the history of transport, traffic and mobility as a scientific discipline and as a public service. Submission of a fully
completed poster form (1 page A4) is mandatory for all speakers. Posters will be judged. Poster forms will be made available later on the website
of the programme committee. 6/06/2009 Eleventh Session of the Mediterranean Research Meeting
3/06/2009 New issue of the journal Mobilities
http://www.informaworld.com in Yamatji Country, Western Australia, Author: Sarah Prout
Post-collapse Somalia, Author: Greg Collins
Through Travelling Icons, Author: Veronica della Dora
Youthful Trinidadian Returnees, Authors: Dennis Conway; Robert B. Potter; Godfrey St. Bernard
Author: Harry Ferguson 26/05/2009 New Book: Mobilities and Inequality
READ INTRODUCTION: http://www.ashgate.com/pdf/SamplePages/Mobilities_and_Inequality_Intro.pdf ORDER BOOK FROM PUBLSIHER WITH PRICE REDUCTION: http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calctitle=1&pageSubject=429&lang=cy&title_id=10359&edition_id=11588
22/05/2009 New Book: Mobility in Daily Life
Dr Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Department for Environmental, Social and Spatial Change, Roskilde University, Denmark 19/05/2009 New Book: A World I Loved
Jaqueline Rose, Queen Mary, University of London 17/05/2009 Cosmobilities Session at RC21/ ISA: Urban futures and mobility regimes
International Sociological Association Annual Conference, Gotenburg | 11-17 July 2010 and Katharina Manderscheid, Lancaster University, UK, k.manderscheid@lancaster.ac.uk http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2010/rc/rc21.htm 16/05/2009 Le séminaire "Tourisme : Recherches , Institutions, Pratiques"
EHESS, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme de Paris, séminaire associé au IIAC, équipe LAIOS. Ce séminaire est associé au LAIOS. Il est ouvert à toutes les personnes qui s’intéressent à la recherche sur le tourisme et les mobilités de loisirs. 2/05/2009 Seventh International Conference on the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M)
CALL FOR PAPERS - Energy and Innovation - The conference is organised by historians from different universities as well as by the Swiss Museum of Transport. Switzerland’s most visited museum celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2009 and is being rebuilt and expanded for this occasion at the time. This year the conference theme is Energy and Innovation’. The CfP asks for papers in this thematic field but it is at the same time open to all subjects in the history of transport, traffic, and mobility. The language of the conference is English. Traffic is motion and therefore energy is imperative. It doesn’t matter what, how or where to one moves – performance, or the conversion of energy into motion, is always preconditioned. The modernisation of traffic since the 18th century can be seen as a process in the course of which means of transport that relied in the end on solar energy were replaced by means of transport that relied on nonrenewable energy. Thus, the focus was shifted from the likes of walking, rowing, sailing, horseback riding and the usage of animal traction to mechanical means of transport such as the steam engine, the combustion engine and rocket propulsion.Where did the question of energy figure in the acceleration and intensification of traffic? Where in the choice of a means of transport, in the question ‘street or ship’? How was energy efficiency for new machines increased? Conversely, how was their environmental pollution reduced? Why did one choose a specific propulsion? How did the price of energy affect the price of transport and mobility? How big was the influence of private traffic and energy business thereby, how great the weight of governmental politics?
According to economist Joseph Schumpeter, innovations are elementary improvements that shake the economy and the community which means in this case that they produce new means of transport such as train, car or plane. Which economical, social, cultural and political conditions leveraged which means of transport? Innovations never were the result of mere business calculations and engineering efforts. Behind those were always sociocultural factors such as the ideology of freedom, the appetite for adventure and discovery or the play instinct and surge for fame. Also, new combinations of existing means of transport could lead to innovation. Proposals which connect the two conference topics (energy and innovation) are eminently favoured: How was the velocity of a means of transport increased without a multiplication of energy consumption? Do new means of transport prevail mainly in times of war and crisis? Could premodern and antiquated means of transport increase their efficiency under the pressure of competition of new modes of drive as for example the fast sailing ships that came up under the pressure of the steam boat around 1850? Is a renaissance of premodern and environmentally sound means of transport imaginable?
Participants are encouraged, though not required, to organize panels on these themes. A panel consists of a chair and normally up to three speakers; no commentator is required. We especially encourage transnational, comparative and transmodal approaches, and welcome proposals exploring theoretical or methodological issues as well as those of a more empirical nature. Relevant contributions are welcome from historians as well as from cultural geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, economists, and other scholars who do not define themselves as historians. We especially invite recent entrants to the profession and doctoral students to submit proposals. The deadline for abstracts and a short CV (max one page each; Word or rich text format only) is the 15th April, 2009. Session proposals should also include a one-page overview of the session. Please send proposals to: t2m_content@verkehrshaus.ch. Submitters will be notified by the programme committee during the first week of May 2009 on the success or status of their submission. The full paper of all accepted submissions and of the posters must be delivered on or before August 15th, 2009. These papers will be copied onto a conference CD-ROM for distribution in advance to all conference participants. Individual presentations at the conference are therefore to be limited to a fifteen-minute summary to allow for debate and discussion within the session. All participants are required to register. For details of T2M and of previous conferences, please visit: www.t2m.org. Further details of the conference (including the poster form) will be posted on a website of the Programme Committee which is currently under construction and will go online later.
Laurent Tissot (University of Neuchâtel) (Chair); Stéphanie von Erlach (sbb historic/Bern); Ueli Haefeli (University of Bern); Gisela Huerlimann (University of Zurich/Swiss Federal Institute of Technology); Christoph Maria Merki (University of Bern); This Oberhaensli (Swiss Museum of Transport); Christian Pfister (University of Bern); Hans-Ulrich Schiedt (ViaStoria/University of Bern); Henry Wydler (Swiss Museum of Transport) Scientific Committee (for paper acceptance):
Laurent Tissot (University of Neuchâtel), Gisela Huerlimann (University of Zurich/Swiss Federal Institute of Technology); Hans-Liudger Dienel (Berlin University of Technology, Germany), Garth Wilson (Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa/Canada). 09/05/2009 7th International Symposium on Tourism and Sustainability - TRAVEL & TOURISM IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE - Robust Findings, Key Uncertainties
Geoffry Lipman, UNWTO Assistant Secretary-General Mark Lynas, award-winning freelance writer on climate change
For more information contact: tourism-climatechange@brighton.ac.uk 7/05/2009 CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference on development and ICT
What benefits for the most disadvantaged? 2. New communicative habits: family and interpersonal relationships 3. Technologies and entrepreneurship
4. Communications at the bottom of the pyramid: access strategies 5. Mobile communications and development: microeconomic perspective
6. E-banking, access to financial services, etc.: local use and remittances
2009 (24 April), highlighting which category the paper belongs to. Accepted papers will be published in book form, (with ISBN). Please find the instructions below. Researcher | IN3 - Internet Interdisciplinary Institute | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya www.uoc.edu | Av. Tibidabo, 47 | 08035 Barcelona | Tel. +34 93 253 57 55 | Fax. +34 93 211 01 26
All the documents must be sent to the following email address: jornadesitd.in3@uoc.edu Preferred formats: *.doc (MS Word), *.odf (Open Office Writer), and PDF.
Abstract Information to be sent: | 1. Title | 2. The name and affiliation of all the authors/writers and the authors’ contact details are required. | 3. Keywords (up to 4)
4. Summary (300-500 words) | 5. Subject area: 2. New communicative habits: family and interpersonal relationships 3. Technologies and entrepreneurship
4. Communications at the bottom of the pyramid: access strategies 5. Mobile communications and development: microeconomic perspective
6. E-banking, access to financial services, etc.: local use and remittances 2009 , indicating JDTIC-BCN: submissions in the subject line. 5/05/2009 Appel à Communications – Construire la Méditerrannée
Dans la perspective qui est la nôtre, la pertinence de la « Méditerranée» en tant qu’objet de réflexion et de recherche réside dans le fait qu’il constitue un espace d’action d’une grande originalité où les aspects d’une mondialisation « immanente » et multiforme (le foyer touristique le plus important, délocalisations des industries et des services) cohabitaient avec celle d’un autre « désir du monde » qui se fait d’une façon beaucoup plus périlleuse à travers des migrations clandestines dont le volume des flux s’intensifie de plus en plus. Les actions se déclinent aussi dans des expériences de développement et d’aménagement qui ont produit et façonné des types d’espaces « penchés » sur la Méditerranée. La littoralisation, modèle spatial récurrent sur les deux rives témoigne de la place qu’occupe la façade maritime dans l’organisation et le fonctionnement des espaces urbains méditerranéens et leur évolution vers la métropolisation.
Espace d’action(s), la Méditerranée est aussi un espace en action dont la dimension spatiale se forge et se reproduit selon quelques déterminants puissants. D’abord quelques tropismes forts où se conjuguent des écosystèmes fragiles, un différentiel de développement Nord/Sud qui ne cesse de se creuser et de s’amplifier, des configurations/combinaisons géopolitiques pesantes et fortement indurées. Ensuite quelques inflexions qui, sans être définitives, méritent qu’on s’y attarde : depuis une vingtaine d’années la Méditerranée est devenue, chez une partie des élites politiques et économiques, un espace de projet(s) indispensable. Du processus de Barcelone (1995) et ses visées géo-économiques à l’Union pour la Méditerranée (2008) en passant par les programmes sectoriels de préservation du patrimoine naturel méditerranéen, de développement et d’aménagement urbain, la Méditerranée, comme catégorie géographique, apparaît comme un possible espace de projet et/ou de projets. Ainsi, l’objectif de ce colloque est de mettre en évidence, à partir de ces deux constats d’action et de projet, et selon des échelles et des temporalités multiples, les processus d’interaction et d’interactivité faisant de la Méditerranée un espace d’action et de probable construction et ce autour des quatre thèmes suivants sur lesquels nous invitons les spécialistes de l’analyse des dimensions spatiales des sociétés à réfléchir :
1- Représentations de la Méditerranée : spatialité(s) et imaginaires géographiques. Qu’ils soient des fictions cinématographiques, des productions littéraires, des affiches publicitaires ou des manuels scolaires, les représentations de la Méditerranée évoquent, à travers des récits sur les lieux, les espaces et les territoires, des lectures sur les spatialités méditerranéennes qu’il serait utile de dévoiler et de questionner. Ainsi, entre Salambo de Flaubert, et le rivage des Syrtes de Julien Gracq mués en lieux imaginaires en passant par la peinture de Cézanne ou, sur un autre registre, les images très médiatiques des policiers du Lampedusa accueillant des migrants clandestins, la Méditerranée se fait paraître, à travers ses dimensions spatiales, au point d’être un espace à part. Que constituent alors ces représentations, quelles matérialités évoqueraient-elles et quelles dimensions idéelles mobiliseraient-elles?
2- La Méditerranée ; espace-patrimoine : Enjeux environnementaux pour des écosystèmes sans cesse bouleversés par les hommes. Les milieux « naturels » non transformés par les hommes n’existent pratiquement plus en Méditerranée. Modifiés depuis la « révolution » du Néolithique et soumis à des pressions sans équivalent ailleurs, ils subissent encore aujourd’hui des mutations sensibles dans leur structure et leur fonctionnement. Qu’il s’agisse des plages et des systèmes dunaires qui leurs sont associés, des côtes rocheuses escarpées, des espaces insulaires, des zones humides littorales, des plaines alluviales et deltaïques, des milieux forestiers et autres milieux spécifiques ; les écosystèmes méditerranéens sont en forte prise avec des formes de dégradation. Devenues facteurs de déséquilibre, elles posent avec acuité deux problèmes, celui de l’adéquation entre les ressources et les modes d’habiter consommateurs d’espace, et celui relatif à la mise en place de stratégies intégrant développement et actions prévenant les risques « naturels » et assurant la régénération des ressources. Abordée sous l’angle d’un patrimoine naturel commun ou mémoire(s) de la Méditerranée, la question environnementale est ici replacée dans un cadre plus large, celui de l’évolution et de la pérennité de l’habiter méditerranéen et son agencement dans un contexte climatique changeant et dont les effets remarquables méritent d’être mieux élucidés.
3- Les vecteurs d’un espace mondialisé : mobilité, développement et métropolisation. Existe-il un modèle de peuplement propre à la Méditerranée ? Comment l’appréhender en relation avec la donne du développement économique et sociale en recomposition ? Au niveau des caractéristiques générales de la localisation de la population et des activités la tendance, sur les deux rives à la consolidation des espaces métropolitains achève un long processus de littoralisation qui nous fait rappeler les vieilles structures géohistoriques méditerranéennes (les modèles des Cités-Etats) d’où une question centrale : s’agit-il d’une Méditerranée de villes et de métropoles qui se fait au détriment des Etats et leurs territorialités classiques ? Les systèmes de mobilité, opposés soit-ils, n’attestent-ils pas d’un grand mouvement qui se fait pour et par les villes ? Quel type de développement pour les nouveaux espaces des sociétés ? Quel statut des lieux et des territoires dans la logique sélective de la mondialisation ?
4- Construire la Méditerranée : comment et pourquoi? Les géographes mettent l’accent de plus en plus sur les prophéties auto-réalisatrices et les utopies probables. L’Europe en est un exemple édifiant. La Méditerranée pourrait-elle être un autre exemple ? La question mérite réflexion et débat au moins au niveau de la confrontation de quelques scénarios probables qui se rapportent à l’évolution géopolitique, géo-économique et sociétale des sociétés méditerranéennes.
Appel à Communications - Le Colloque est ouvert à tous les spécialistes s’intéressant à la dimension spatiale des sociétés.
- Chaque présentation doit comprendre l’axe choisi parmi les 4 proposés, le titre de la communication, le(s) nom(s) de(s) l’auteur(e)(s), avec institution(s) de rattachement et adresses (postale et numérique) et 5 mots-clés. - Le fichier numérique doit être envoyé au format .doc à l’adresse suivante et cela avant le 31/5/2009 :
colloqgeographsousse@gmail.com - Après évaluation les auteurs dont la proposition est retenue seront avisés, par courrier électronique, avant le 30/6/2009.
- Les textes, dans leur version finale, doivent parvenir avant le 30/10/2009. - Un comité scientifique se chargera de l’évaluation en vue de la publication des actes du Colloque.
2/05/2009 Ninth International Conference on the Mediterranean Coastal Environment (MEDCOAST 09)
http://www.medcoast.org.tr/MC09/Call_for_Papers_MEDCOAST%2009.pdf Mediterranean Coastal Foundation | (MEDCOAST Foundation) | Volkan Sokak, No 52 (Beyaz Ev), Akyaka 48650, Mugla, Turkey | Tel: +90 252 2435500 | Fax: + 90 252 2434495 29/04/2009 Somalia – Refugees and Diaspora
Link to pdf: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/medmobilities/docs/undp_report_onsomali_diaspora%5B1%5D.pdf Media report on the role of Somali diaspora in pirate activity http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28158455/
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/unica/industria/funciona/elpepuint/20090412elpepuint_7/Tes http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1072592.stm
http://www.msf.org/ 17/04/2009 New Journal : Tourism Consumption
The purpose of the Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice is to publish original, peer reviewed articles, shorter discussion pieces, book reviews and conference reports which advance the field of tourism studies and which broadly address forms of tourism as modes of consumption and practice. We live in a world characterised by a complex global interplay of information, economics, culture and space. People, goods and capital are more mobile than ever before. Such mobility and flux creates the conditions in which new forms of identity, work and leisure, as well as new socio – spatial configurations are emerging which may involve translocational, transnational and multi-cultural elements.
The main focus of this journal then is to examine the interplay between the production and consumption of tourism as forms of interaction between people and place. While tourism is a phenomenon in its own right, its centrality in contemporary capitalist society along with other forms of mobilities allows it to operate as a lens through which broader social and cultural processes can be illuminated. To that end the journal welcomes contributions that both reflect on the consumptive and performative nature of tourism per se but also which use tourism as a means to examine questions pertinent to social and cultural life more generally and further articulates the use of current areas of theoretical debate in critical analyses.
We are also keen to exploit the opportunities that new technology offers, authors are encouraged to use still photographs, video and sound clips where appropriate. 15/04/2009 New publication: Extending Hospitality: Giving Space, Taking Time
Edinburgh University Press (Paragraph special issues) Contents:
Extending Hospitality: Giving Space, Taking Time | Mustafa Dikec, Nigel Clark, Clive Barnett 'Wanted': Organs, Passports and the Integrity of the Transient's Body | Mireille Rosello
Hospitality Lessons: Learning the Shared Language of Derrida and the Balga Bedouin | Andrew Shryock The Limits of Hospitality | Heidrun Friese
Women's Bodies Between National Hospitality and Domestic Biopolitics | Rosalyn Diprose Hospitable Harems? A European Woman and Oriental Spaces in the Enlightenment | Judith Still
Trading Hospitality: Kant, Cosmopolitics and Commercium | Diane Morgan 12/04/2008 New book: After the Car
* Examines the impact of global warming, global population increases and the peaking of oil supplies, among other things, on the future of how we travel. * Argues that there will come a time in the future where, by necessity, the present car system will be're-designed' and're-engineered'.
* After The Car will interest sociologists, policy makers, industry, as well as the general reader. It will be of interest to every 'car user'. It is difficult to imagine a world without the car, and yet that is exactly what Dennis and Urry set out to do in this provocative new book. They argue that the days of the car are numbered: powerful forces around the world are undermining the car system and will usher in a new transport system sometime in the next few decades. Specifically, the book examines how several major processes are shaping the future of how we travel, including:
* Global warming and its many global consequences * Peaking of oil supplies
* Increased digitisation of many aspects of economic and social life * Massive global population increases
The authors look at changes in technology, policy, economy and society, and make a convincing argument for a future where, by necessity, the present car system will be re-designed and re-engineered. 8 May ~ 212 pages 978-0-7456-4421-9 Hardback £45.00 / $59.95
978-0-7456-4422-6 Paperback £14.99 / $19.95 the author
Kingsley Dennis was formerly Research Associate in the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) at Lancaster University. John Urry is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and CeMoRe Director at Lancaster University CONTACT: Amandine Decam, Polity Marketing Tel: 01865 476146
Email: afdecam@wiley.com 10/04/2009 Blog on trans-Saharian migration
http://lacomunidad.elpais.com/inmigracion/posts 8/04/2009 Fiction book on African migration: Leaving Tangier
Tahar Ben Jelloun Apr 2nd 2009
From The Economist print edition IN HIS latest work to be translated into English, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Morocco’s best-known novelist, examines how much people are willing to sacrifice to start a new life in Europe, and the consequences of taking flight. Mr Ben Jelloun is no stranger to these issues, having left Morocco himself in 1971 to study in Paris. He has won numerous literary prizes, including the Prix Goncourt in 1987, an award he now judges.
In “Leaving Tangier”, the author draws on his research as a social psychiatrist that also inspired an earlier novel, “Solitaire”, as a way of exploring psychological and sexual dysfunctions that arise as a result of migration. Azel, an educated, heterosexual young man from Tangier, is unable to find work and becomes obsessed with his desire to escape from Morocco. He spends every evening at the Café Haha, gazing longingly at the lights twinkling on the Spanish coastline just 20 miles (32km) away. When he meets Miguel Lopez, a rich Spanish homosexual, Azel seizes the opportunity and leaves his family and his country behind to become Miguel’s lover in Barcelona. However, he underestimates the extent to which this decision will destroy both his sexuality and his sense of self. In 40 short chapters Mr Ben Jelloun weaves together a tapestry of exile and loss as he follows his characters through the dream and reality of leaving Tangier. Al Afia, “the fire”, smuggles boatloads of illegal emigrants across the strait, unashamedly profiting from an enterprise that often ends in arrest or drowning. Azel’s sister, Kenza, enters into a marriage of convenience with Miguel and obtains a job and a resident’s permit in Spain, but her dream of finding “love, true love” is snatched away. Back in Tangier, the most touching figure is Malika, an imaginative young girl who dies before any of her dreams can be realised.
The invisible, omnipresent character in the text is Morocco itself, as Mr Ben Jelloun demonstrates the difficulty of ever really “leaving” your country. Although most of the plot takes place in Spain, the characters’ thoughts continually turn back to Morocco, a country that remains the “dearest and greatest” of their anxieties. “Leaving Tangier” is a brave, unflinching look at the issues underlying economic migration from North Africa—and the hard choices people make between roots and wings. 7/4/2009
The UNESCO Chair of Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean of the University Rovira i Virgili will organize the event in cooperation with the University of Oran Es-Senia and the CRASC and with the collaboration of the AUF and it will be funded by the AECID. The Meeting in its second edition aims to go on with the 1st Meeting of Young Researchers around the Mediterranean work, Tarragona 2007.
- To favour the projection of the young researchers in their surrounding and at Mediterranean level - To promote the contact and the reflexion exchange between the participants.
- To set actions and projects to deeply improve the research in the different Euro-Mediterranean countries and also to be to the advantage of its university institutions or centres through the reinforcement of its internal and external function structures. The Meeting will start with a one-day conference on governance in the Euromed universities.
5/7/2009
If you are interested, your paper abstract including paper title, short description (within 200 words), and name, affiliation, country and email address as paper author(s) should be sent to session organizers as well as conference coordinators: Fernando Diaz Orueta Fernando.diaz@ua.es and Kuniko Fujita fujitak@msu.edu by October
31, 2009. This call for papers is listed at ISA web site |