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• Publisher: University of Washington Press (25 Jul 2009) • ISBN-10: 0295989114 • ISBN-13: 978-0295989112 25/2/2009 New book: Gendered Journeys, Mobile Emotions
Ashgate
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7034-6 This title is also available as an eBook, ISBN 978-0-7546-9272-0 It is increasingly acknowledged that an analysis of emotions is necessary to fully understand the social world, and recent research on transport, travel and mobilities has begun to consider the gendered nature of public and personal life in relation to this sphere. The focus of this multidisciplinary and auto/biographical volume is the emotional relationship that individuals and groups have with different means of travel. Attention is given to a variety of travel experiences, including travelling in trains, planes, cars, buses and ships, as well as biking, cycling, running and walking, from the perspective of travellers and those who earn their living in assisting these experiences of others. Imaginary travel and the relationships between art and travel are also considered. Adopting innovative approaches to experiential material ranging from personal memories to empirical research, Gendered Journeys, Mobile Emotions opens up and illuminates an interdisciplinary debate about the gendered, emotive and emotional nature of travelling. 22/2/2009 Arts – photographic project website – So blue So blue
12/02/2009 Call for papers: ABORNE Conference on 'How is Africa Transforming Border Studies?'
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 10-14 September 2009 The African Borderlands Research Network - ABORNE (http://www.aborne.org/) - is an interdisciplinary network of over 70 academic researchers and institutions in Europe, Africa and North America.
emphasis on anthropology and history. They share a long-term interest in all aspects of international borders and trans-boundary phenomena in Africa. The emphasis is largely on borderlands as physical spaces and social spheres, but the network is also concerned with regional flows of people and goods as well as economic processes that may be located at some distance from the geographical border. From April 2009, ABORNE will be funded by the European Science Foundation as an ESF networking programme. ABORNE will hold it's third annual meeting at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, from 10-14 September 2009. Papers are invited from scholars of African borderlands and borders at all levels. Financial support is available for participants. Both 'border theory' and border studies as a field owe much of their cross-disciplinary origins and development to scholars of the American Southwest. By the late 1990s, spurred by the rapid development of the European Union, Europeanist scholars had contributed not only a wealth of empirical studies but also significant theoretical insights and concepts to border studies. What then of Africa, the peripheral poor relation of the area studies' family? African borders have often been seen as incomplete or exceptional in relation to mainstream border theory - due to their supposed porosity, negotiability, arbitrariness, and lack of impact on popularly rooted social identities. Increasingly, however, Africanist scholars are making two arguments concerning the supposed exceptionalism of African borders. Firstly, many African borders are not indeed as irrelevant, porous and arbitrary as widely assumed. Secondly, many of the characteristics of African borders, in their diversity, are also present elsewhere. With increasingly global theorising, the US-Mexico and European borders may well turn out to be the exceptions to the global norm. African borders will contribute to helping us illuminate the functioning and meaning of borders in the global context. It is this process of bringing theory into Africa and Africa into theory which guides the present conference. There are many characteristics of border management, border life, and borderlanders that operate at borders everywhere, that inform the comparative and analytical foundations of border theory, and to which African borders are no exceptions. Indeed, African borders often exemplify extreme border characteristics. While for example the performance of sovereignty and control is a high-profile feature of any border post, it is particularly salient at African borders where the performance may exist in inverse relation to the substance of the state. Similarly, as borderlanders everywhere produce their own border theory rooted in social practice, thereby contesting the conventionally bounded citizenship imaginary of the state, the distance between borderlander and state claims to territory and identity in Africa are often significant, with few avenues for closing the gap. Few African countries, in contrast to Mexico and some others, have authorized dual nationality for its citizens, despite the impossibility of preventing it in practice. Apart from furthering existing border theory, the empirical and theoretical insights gained from studying African borderlands are already transforming the wider field. ABORNE's 2009 annual meeting will offer a unique platform for both established experts in the field and younger scholars with empirical insights "fresh from the field" to explore the most fruitful avenues of investigation. Together, we will seek to contribute more to the field than an additional set of empirical case studies. We aim to sharpen the cutting edge of the borderlands research agenda for years to come, and thereby contribute to the re-making of border theory in the 21st century. Prospective areas of current and future enquiry include the meaning of 'national' borders in pre-, post-, multi- or trans-national societies. While the Westphalian map remains in place, giving borders transnational political identities of their own, to what extent do they have stability as cultural markers? Should we start to consider national differences as purely political and economic matters: are there customs stations for customs? Using the idea of borders as conduits, how do borders facilitate cultural exchange just as they equilibrate the disparities of value of commercial exchange, disparities that are themselves reflected in culture and in social contestation? In many senses, therefore, the territorial border becomes less a boundary dividing identities into two nations than a bridge linking them in mutual dependence. Are these new forms of political and identity organisation only a reaction to uncertainty caused by the weakness or even the absence of state structures? Can these orders substitute the state in the long run? Might the strength and persistence of local political models lead to the transformation of the state as the only and unique model of organised power? Or do they foreshadow a specific form of interlacement between non-state actors and the state that will lead to heterarchical political settings in Africa and elsewhere? If so, what kinds of new borders - manifested physically, discursively, symbolically - are arising around such political forms? We invite paper submissions on the following themes, but also welcome other related topics: 1. Conceptual frameworks for borderland research in Africa and the world 2. Boundaries and borderlands in a comparative perspective: methodologies and theoretical insights 3. The meaning of 'national' borders in pre-, post-, multi- or trans-national societies 4. Borderlands and cross-border economies 5. Borderlands and cross-border politics 6. Mobility across fixed and mobile borders 7. Borders in African philosophies 8. Inserting the history into borders and borderlands into history 9. Representations of borders and border crossing in cultural production 10. Borders, identity and borderland identities Within this wide range of themes, we are seeking papers with the following characteristics: * Papers that are conceptual in nature; * Papers that seek to relate African fieldwork data to larger bodies of (theoretical) work; * Papers that are explicitly comparative in focus. Titles and abstracts are due by 30 April, 2009. To apply, please send the following information to both David Coplan (david.coplan@wits.ac.za) and Tara Polzer (tara.polzer@wits.ac.za): * Name
* Institutional affiliation * Contact Details (email and phone) * Abstract (150-200 words) * Whether you are already a member of ABORNE * Whether you wish to become a member of ABORNE
(David.Coplan@wits.ac.za), Tara Polzer (Tara.Polzer@wits.ac.za) or Wolfgang Zeller (wolfgang.zeller@helsinki.fi) or see http://www.aborne.org/ . Tara Polzer Senior Researcher Forced Migration Studies Programme University of the Witwatersrand Email: tara.polzer@wits.ac.za General Contact Details for Forced Migration Studies Programme PO Box 76, 2050 WITS, South Africa Email: info@migration.org.za
11/02/2009 Appel à communication : Tourisme - Théorie - Géographie
2. Afin de désigner ce que fait le touriste, la notion de "performance" vise l'expressivité du corps du touriste, mais aussi le caractère "programmé" des pratiques. Il est à noter que la notion d’"habitus touristique" (Vester, 1998) pour désigner les récurrences dans les pratiques touristiques et l’acquisition de compétences pour être touriste pose la question des conditions de possibilité de la transposition de ce concept du quotidien vers le hors-quotidien. 3. Le travail sur ce qui constitue l’espace proprement touristique, la catégorisation des lieux touristiques (ville-station, station à fonctions urbaines diversifiées, ville à fonction touristique, district touristique etc.) afin de désigner types de lieux (Equipe MIT, 2002) a gagné en diversité. Concernant l’époque contemporaine, les "environnements thématisés" – themed environments - (Williams & Shaw, 2004) qui forment l'espace touristique de la « société expérientelle » - Erlebnisgesellschaft – (Schulze, 1997) sont convoqués. 4. Cette réflexion sur le lien tourisme/société a conduit à la proposition du tourisme comme "genre commun" qui "infuse" la société-Monde (Lussault, 2007). Parallèlement, le terme "post-tourisme" comme notion désignant la "dé-différenciation" des pratiques touristiques (Urry, 1995) est proposé. 5. Afin de comprendre les effets des pratiques touristiques sur l’écosystème, la notion de "tourisme durable" a été mise en avant, notamment comme critique d’un tourisme de masse. Elle vise à maîtriser ces effets et proposer des pratiques qui minimisent l’action anthropique sur le milieu bio-physique. S’agit-il d’une scène politique et commerciale ou d’un concept scientifique ? 6. Afin de penser avec plus de précision ce qui est à l’œuvre dans le déplacement touristique, la notion de « situation touristique » comme espace-temps spécifique d’un projet individuel est proposé. Elle conduit à l’interrogation de la signification de toutes les pratiques, y compris un nouveau rapport au sexuel et au corps, notamment dans l’optique de la « libération sexuelle » des années 1960. Ce ne sont là que quelques exemples sans visée exhaustive et nous invitons volontiers à proposer d’autres manières de penser le tourisme. Deux aspects complémentaires pourraient être évoqués. Primo, les apports des différentes disciplines (psychologie, économie, sociologie, anthropologie, politologie, psychanalyse, histoire, etc.) pourraient aussi être convoqués afin de féconder les recherches géographiques sur le tourisme dans une optique d’hybridation (Dogan & Pahre, 1991). Secundo, cette investigation des concepts novateurs peut également porter, dans une visée réflexive, sur l’épistémologie de la géographie du tourisme, sur les successions des paradigmes ainsi que sur les modèles de l'homme utilisés pour désigner le touriste ou les autres acteurs du tourisme etc.. Il convient en effet d'exercer la critique afin que la mesure de la pertinence de ces modèles continue. Cela permettrait également d'identifier des points aveugles des perspectives théoriques développées dans l’approche géographique du tourisme. 2. Quelles implications la prise en compte du tourisme a-t-elle pour les théories et modèles en géographie ? La quasi-totalité des théories et modèles en géographie a été bâtie sans référence au tourisme. Ni les modèles structuraux classiques de l'urbain, de la localisation des entreprises, ni les modèles d'action n'ont été proposés en intégrant le tourisme. Les seuls où le tourisme apparaît sont les théories sur l'imaginaire et les représentations. Le raisonnement géographique construisant un monde sans tourisme n'est plus pertinent dans une « civilisation du loisir » (Dumazedier). D'où la tentative d'évaluer la façon dont la prise en compte du phénomène touristique peut avoir des impacts sur la théorie géographique. Or, on peut avancer l’argument suivant : l'injection de phénomènes touristiques dans les modèles et théories de la géographie fait opérer un changement radical à ceux-ci. L'on peut supposer que la prise en compte du touristique rend inopérable ou au mieux nécessite d'amender les théories et modèles en géographie. La question se pose ainsi : "la géographie peut-elle s'agréger à un tel phénomène, l'ériger en objet propre et le traiter sans elle-même se remettre, un tant soit peu, en cause ?" (Lazzarotti, p. 262, in Stock, 2003). La réponse est à l'évidence un défi immense pour les chercheurs : il s'agit d'une part de cerner l'apport des phénomènes touristiques pour la modélisation en géographie et, d'autre part, proposer à terme de nouvelles "modélisations avec tourisme". Il s'agit là d'un défi, car il convient de mettre à l'épreuve l'ensemble des modèles géographiques et tester ainsi leur congruence avec les phénomènes touristiques. Les domaines que l'on peut d'ores et déjà évoquer sont : 1. La centralité comme concept clé des modèles d'urbanisation et d'organisation des systèmes urbains où les pratiques touristiques et les lieux touristiques n’ont pas encore trouvé leur place. On peut également revenir sur l’ensemble de la géographie urbaine qui se focalise sur les villes comme seul type de lieu urbain, mais évacue les stations touristiques et la part du tourisme dans les processus d'urbanisation, et ce à tous les niveaux d’échelle. Par exemple, les pratiques de la ville restent centrées sur les résidents et oublient les pratiques en situation touristique (« habiter touristiquement »). 2. Les systèmes de mobilité dont le traitement est concentré sur les déplacement « quotidiens », et les « circulations migratoires ». Or, quelle est la place des pratiques touristiques dans les systèmes individuels de mobilité ? 3. La géographie économique où la circulation des flux financiers entre les lieux de production et les lieux de consommation touristique seraient intéressants à connaître dans une optique de l’économie « présentielle » (Davezies). De même que le concept de district industriel pourrait servir à l’investigation des districts touristiques. 4. Le croisement du tourisme et du géopolitique manque encore de travaux approfondis ; pourquoi pas à travers une discussion de la « critical geopolitics » ? 5. Les référents géographiques de l’identité personnelle ou collective constituent aujourd’hui une interrogation banale ; cependant, la question de la place des lieux de vacances est évacuée. Ceci constitue une entrée spécifique de la question du rapport à l’espace et les « cultures d’espace », bouleversée par le tourisme. Cette interrogation pourrait aussi engendrer un questionnement des géographies culturelle, sociale, politique, etc.. Les communications attendues pourraient viser à enrichir la théorie géographique par la prise en compte du tourisme dans les conceptualisations et l'on invite des communications faisant le point sur l'enrichissement possible des modèles et concepts géographiques en prenant en compte le phénomène touristique. Ceci pourrait être le lieu de confrontations avec les géographes qui ne sont pas spécialistes de tourisme. C’est pourquoi cet appel à communication s’adresse non seulement aux géographes « du tourisme », mais aussi aux représentants de la géographie culturelle, sociale, urbaine etc. dans les recherches desquels le tourisme fait irruption sans qu’ils sachent quoi en faire et/ou où le tourisme reste un phénomène étrange, invisible ou impensé. Nous invitons les personnes intéressées à envoyer les propositions de communications au plus tard le 2 mars 2009. Le comité scientifique rendra sa réponse avant le 1er avril 2009. Elles doivent être envoyées au secrétariat du colloque (christine.eden@iukb.ch) en une page comprenant l’exposé du sujet, le questionnement et d’une problématique. Le comité d’organisation est disponible pour répondre, le cas échéant, aux différentes questions. Références : Appadurai A., 1996, Modernity at Large. Cultural Dimensions of Globalisation, Minnesota Press Davezies L., La République et ses territoires. La circulation invisible des richesses, Paris, Seuil, 2008 Dogan & Pahre, 1991, L’Innovation dans les sciences sociales. La marginalité créatrice. Paris, PUF Dumazedier J., 1962, Vers une civilisation du loisir ? Paris Lussault M., 2007, « Tourisme, un genre commun », in : Duhamel Ph. & Knafou R. (dir.), Les mondes urbains du tourisme. Paris, Belin Schulze G.,1997, Erlebnisgesellschaft. Munich, Campe Shaw G. & Williams A., 2004, Tourism and Tourism Spaces, Londres, Sage Stock M. (coord.), 2003, Le tourisme. Lieux, acteurs, enjeux. Paris, Belin Urry J., 1995, Consuming places. Londres, Routledge Urry J., 2000, Sociology Beyond Society. Mobilities for the 21st century. Londres, Routledge Vester H.-G., 1997, "Tourismus im Licht soziologischer Theorie. Ansätze bei Erving Goffman, Pierre Bourdieu und der World-SystemTheory". Voyage, pp. 67-85 Comité d’organisation : Unité d’Enseignement et de Recherche en Etudes touristiques, Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch, Sion Mathis Stock (responsable) : mathis.stock@iukb.ch Christophe Clivaz : christophe.clivaz@iukb.ch Christine Eden (secrétariat) : christine.eden@iukb.ch Léopold Lucas : leopold.lucas@iukb.ch Stéphane Nahrath : stephane.nahrath@iukb.ch Comité scientifique : Jean-Christophe Gay (président, Université de Nice & IRD, Nouméa), Antoine Beyer (Université Paris-IV Sorbonne), Christine Chivallon (CNRS, CEAN, Bordeaux), Christophe Clivaz (IUKB, Sion), Vincent Coëffé (ESC, La Rochelle), Bernard Debarbieux (Université de Genève), Jean-Michel Décroly (Université libre de Bruxelles), Isabelle Géneau de la Marlière (Université Paris-I, Panthéon-Sorbonne), Olivier Graefe (Université de Fribourg), André-Frédéric Hoyaux (Université de Bordeaux III), Stéphane Nahrath (IUKB, Sion), Emmanuel Reynard (Université de Neuchâtel), Ola Söderström (Université de Neuchâtel), Mathis Stock (IUKB, Sion), Philippe Violier (Université d’Angers). 10/02/2009 Conference: The Nakba: Sixty Years of Dispossession, Sixty Years of Resistance
Ticket includes lunch and refreshments Day One: Saturday 21st February Registration and refreshments: 9.00am-9.30am Keynote: Walid Khalidi (Co-founder of the Institute of Palestine Studies) From 1947 to 1897: From Partition to Basle 9.30am-10.30am
10.30am-12.30pm Chair: John Chalcraft (London School of Economics) Karma Nabulsi (University of Oxford) Resistance History from Below and the Collective Retrieval of Memory: Towards a New Historiography
The Struggle Over Memory: the Future Agenda Randa Farah (University of Western Ontario) Palestinian Refugees and their Oral Histories: History's silence, Memory's Burden
1.30pm-3.00pm Chair: Ilan Pappe (University of Exeter) Saleh Abdel-Jawad (Birzeit University) The Credibility and Limits of Refugee Oral Testimonies Isabelle Humphries (University of Surrey) Reading from a Different Archive: Alternative History and Palestinian Internally Displaced of the Galilee Norman Finkelstein (independent researcher) The June 1967 War: What Bestsellers Proclaim, What Scholarship and the Documentary Record Show
3.15pm-4.45pm Chair: Bashir Abu-Manneh (Barnard College, New York) Salwa Mikdadi (Curator and Publisher) Creative Uprising - Palestinian Artists Alternative Strategies of Resistance Suleiman Mansour (Artist) Artists in the Time of Revolution: Demands, Tensions, Contradictions Sinan Antoon (New York University) Darwish and the Poetics of Resistance Refreshments: 4.45pm-5.00pm Session Four: History of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement 5.00pm-6.45pm Chair: Gilbert Achcar (School of Oriental and African Studies) Bashir Abu Manneh (Barnard College, New York) Problems of Palestinian Liberation Fadle Naqib (University of Waterloo) The Economic Orientation of the Palestinian National Movement Roger Heacock (Birzeit University) Stones, Bullets, Ballots: Intifada, An Unfinished Drama in Several Acts Khaled Hroub (University of Cambridge) The Decline of Secular Nationalism and the Rise of Political Islam Day Two: Sunday 22nd February Session Five: Social and Economic History of Palestinian Resistance 10:45am-12:45pm Chair: Roger Heacock (Birzeit University) Musa Budeiri (Birzeit University) What Would a Class Analysis of Palestinian history Conclude about Possibilities of Palestinian Resistance? (tbc)
"The Big Ones Can Do Nothing": Reflections on the Histories of Women's Struggles for Family, Community and Nation in the Lens of the Palestinian present Ahmad Sa'di (Ben Gurion University) Resisting to Survive: The Palestinians in Israel During the First Two Decades
Fatah and Hamas: Corruption and Political Ethics in Palestine Lunch: 12.45pm-2.00pm Session Six: Forces of Counter-Resistance: The (Still) Unvanquished Enemies of Palestine 2:00pm-4:00pm
The long-term strategy of Zionist Colonisation Seumas Milne (The Guardian) The Role of Imperialism in the Palestine Tragedy Gilbert Achcar (School of Oriental and African Studies) Collusions and Illusions: Arab States and Palestinian Liberation Laleh Khalili (School of Oriental and African Studies) The Location of Palestine in Global Counterinsurgencies Refreshments: 4.00pm-4.15pm Session Seven - Roundtable discussion: The Meaning of Gaza: History Reconsidered in Times of Catastrophe 4:15pm-6:00pm
Ilan Pappe Please note SEATS ARE LIMITED - book in advance Price: £25 (£15 concessions, and £40 organisations) All tickets include lunch and refreshments To buy your tickets: Online - www.soaspalsoc.org By cheque. Send cheque payable to SOAS Palestine Society with attached note of email address to: SOAS Palestine Society | Thornhaugh Street | Russell Square | London, WC1H 0XG Location: SOAS Brunei Gallery | Thornhaugh Street | Russell Square | London, WC1H 0XG Contact: palestineconference@gmail.com | www.soaspalsoc.org 9/02/2009 European Sociological Association Conference, Research Stream 14: Chronic Regional Conflicts: Focus on the Israeli-Palestinian Case
2. David Seddon, School of Development Studies, University of East Aglia, UK, (J.D.Seddon@uea.ac.uk) 9/02/2009 Séminaire : La promenade au tournant des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles (Belgique-Europe).
http://calenda.revues.org/nouvelle11933.html Mot clés : promenade, promeneur, Paris, Bruxelles, boulevards, remparts, Londres, Belgique, Bath, Spa, Prince de Ligne, cheval, jardin botanique, archéologie, siècle des Lumières Bruxelles (1050) (Université Libre de Bruxelles - NB2VIS - 50, avenue F.D. Roosevelt ) Séminaire : Adieu l’automobile ? Entre faillite de l'automobile américaine et mode de vie écolo. Mardi 28 avril 2009 | Un débat d’actualité avec Gabriel Dupuy (auteur des Territoires de l'automobile) et Mathieu Flodeau (auteur des Cultures du volant XX°-XXI° siècles). Paris (75006) (Café de Flore (1e étage). 172, Boulevard St Germain. Métro Saint-Germain. ) mardi 28 avril 2009 Association Les Cafés géographiques Gilles Fumey 8 Rue des Anglais 75005 Paris 8/02/2009 EuroMeSCo papers on instability in Western Mediterranean
7/02/2009 Forthcoming Mobilities issue
Subjects: Demography; Economic and Political Geography; Human Geography; ICT; Migration; Planning, Housing & Land Economy; Sociology; Tourism; Tourism & Leisure; Transport; Urban Communications & Technology; Urban Sociology - Urban Studies; Urban Studies; Publisher: Routledge Papers: The Road Less Travelled - New Directions in Children's and Young People's Mobility 1 – 10 Authors: John Barker; Peter Kraftl; John Horton; Faith Tucker Student Im/mobility in Birzeit, Palestine 11 – 35
Author: Christopher Harker Is Children's Independent Mobility Really Independent? A Study of Children's Mobility Combining Ethnography and GPS/Mobile Phone Technologies 37 – 58
Authors: Miguel Romero Mikkelsen; Pia Christensen 'Driven to Distraction?': Children's Experiences of Car Travel 59 – 76
Author: John Barker Challenging Minority World Privilege: Children's Outdoor Mobilities in Post-apartheid South Africa 77 – 101 Author: Matthew C. Benwell
103 – 118 Author: Sue Milne
119 – 138 Author: Tim Gale
139 – 158 Author: Ole B. Jensen
159 – 175 Authors: Jude Wilson; David Fisher; Kevin Moore
6/02/2009 New Book: Gordon, A. (2008) Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Revolutionary Structure
5/02/2009 Workshop: "Contemporary challenges for the Mediterranean basin"
LA RENAISSANCE DE LA MÉDITERRANÉE PROGRAMME (MRP) An IGU programme for the Mediterranean Human Development initiated by Late President Adalberto Vallega Un programme de l’UGI pour le développement humain de la Méditerranée fondé par President Adalberto Vallega 2009 Workshop "Contemporary challenges for the Mediterranean basin" 24 February 2009 Home of Geography and the Italian Geographical Society, Rome via della Navicella 12, Villa Celimontana
(paradiso@unisannio.it ) The Mediterranean Renaissance Programme-MRP of the IGU-International Geographical Union organizes a one-day workshop which includes invited presentations on crucial topics for the Euro-Mediterranean area. The general topic "Contemporary challenges for the Mediterranean basin", will be devoted to: environmental changes; migration; information society and tourism; and structured in 4 sessions: 1. Climatic changes and impacts (Chair and organiser: Annick Douguedroit, France) 2. Migration in the Mediterranean Region: between human development and security (Chair and organiser: Ali Toumi, Tunisia) 3. Information Society (Chair and organiser: Maria Paradiso, Italy) 4. Tourism and sustainability (Chair and organiser: Giuliano Bellezza, Italy).
-Structure of migration flows in the Mediterranean Region -Socio-economic constraints and socio-cultural models in migration flows -Human development in the Mediterranean Region: heterogeneity or homogenization? - Socio-political attitudes towards migration flows in the Mediterranean Region
9.15 Welcome address: Mahmoud Ashour, Coordinator, MRP 9.30-11.00 Session n.1 "Environmental climate impacts". Chair and organiser: Annick Douguédroit - Maria Sala Sanjaume: "Traditional and present day human impacts in the Mediterranean landscapes", - Annick Douguédroit: "Environmental changes: the Mediterranean "Hotspot", - Mahmoud Ashour: "Sea level rise: the Nile Delta". 11.00-11.30 Break 11.30-12.30 Session n.2 “Migration in the Mediterranean Region: between human development and security”. Chair and organiser: Alì Toumi Armando Montanari, Human mobility for the Euromediterranean region" Alì Toumi, Nouvelles donnes euro-africaines et migrations clandestines transméditerranéennes. 12.30-13.30 Lunch 13.30-15.00 Session n.3 "Information Society in the Mediterranean" Chair and organiser: Maria Paradiso Aharon Kellerman, Perspectives on international communications in the Mediterranean basin. Emmanuel Eveno, Les collectivités locales et le développement de la Société de l'Information dans les pays méditerranéens Maria Paradiso, Information society policies: the Italian case 15.00-15.30 Break 15.30-17.00 Session n.4 "Tourism and sustainability" Chair and organiser: Giuliano Bellezza Anton Gosar, Towards sustainable tourism development in the upper Adriatic? Theano S. Terkenli, Networks of dependency and partnerships: problems and prospects for tourism sustainability in the Aegean. Igor Jelen, Norbert Weixlbaumer, Globalised tourism and local development: an apparent contradiction. 17.00-18.00 MRP steering committee business meeting Accomodation: Special rates for the presenters and audience are agreed with Hotel Lancelot (Home page: www.lancelothotel.com E-mail: info@lancelothotel.com ) please mention MRP for discounted reservation. MRP Steering Committee Mahmoud Ashour, MRP Coordinator, Chair IGU Commission on Arid Lands Humankind and Environment, University Ain Shams, Cairo, Egypt (mmashour_99@yahoo.com); Maria Paradiso, MRP Executive Secretary, Vice Chair, IGU Commission on Geography of Information Society, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy (paradiso@unisannio.it). ? Ronald F. Abler, IGU President ? Antoine Bailly, Chair of IGU Commission on Applied Geography, University of Geneva (antoine.bailly@geo.unige.ch) ? Giuliano Bellezza, IGU Vice President, Università della Tuscia Viterbo (g.bellezza@homeofgeography.org) ? Anne Buttimer, IGU Past President, University of Dublin, (anne.buttimer@ucd.ie) ? Annick Douguédroit, Former Chair of IGU Commission on Climate Change, University of Provence, Aix en Provence (Annick.Douguedroit@univ-provence.fr) ? Anton Gosar, Chair of IGU Commission on Political Geography University of Primorska, Koper/Capodistria (anton.gosar@guest.arnes.si) ? Aharon Kellerman, IGU Vice President, former Chair of IGU Commission on Geography of the Information Society (akeller@univ.haifa.ac.il) ? Mohamad Riad, Ain Shams University, Cairo (osprey@Link.net) ? Maria Sala, University of Barcelona (sala@trivium.gh.ub.es) ? Theano S. Terkenli, University of the Aegean, (t.terkenli@aegean.gr) ? Alì Toumi, General Secretary of Association des Géographes Tunisiens, University of Tunis (alitoumi2003@yahoo.fr).
5/02/2009 Conference: Cultural Histories of Sociability, Spaces and Mobility University of York, Department of History Cultural History. 9-11 July 2009 Spatial mobility has moved to the centre of lively debates in a number of key areas of social inquiry. Terms such as 'travel', 'mobility', 'displacement', 'diaspora', 'frontier', 'transience', 'dislocation', 'fluidity' and 'permeability' are central to thinking about the nature of subjectivity and hence the formation of identity on any number of geographical scales and social dimensions. In particular, some scholars argue that the contemporary meaning and practice of what it is to belong is changing as new technologies of transport, along with communications, help to reduce the power of traditional places to define personal and communal identities. Some commentators even suggest that unparalleled levels of mobility are shaping a 'post-societal' world of extreme individualization in which nation-states and civil societies are being replaced by global 'citizens' moving endlessly through worldwide 'networks and flows'. Critics argue that this assumption of unbounded movement and geographically fluid identities is unwarranted, and that what matters is understanding how inequalities of mobility arise and with what consequences for social equity and ecological sustainability. But without a sure grasp of the historical precedents to these scenarios, it is all too easy to misconstrue the significance of the changes that are taking place. This conference therefore aims to explore how, from the mediaeval period and earlier through to (post)modern times, what it means to be fully social has evolved in relation to spatial movement, whether of an everyday or an exceptional character. What role did mobility - and immobility - play in defining the meaning of participation in social, economic or political life and the spatial scale at which such participation took place? how were such meanings formed, sustained and dissolved by particular social structures, mechanisms or processes? and with what consequences for the lived practice of collective and individual life? The conference will address the complex and heterogeneous ways in which historical (im)mobilities were both produced and consumed in relation to human sociability in any sphere and at any geographical scale. It will explore how the modes of governance and organization, infrastructures, vehicles and other artefacts which together constituted transport or mobility systems as material cultures acted as intermediaries engaging, ordering and distributing the spaces, conceptions and practices of communal participation from micro to macro levels. Understood in this way, the highway, for instance, implicated in the making of mobility networks from mediaeval times to the computer age, emerges as a key notion. It has played an important role in conceptions of a civic sphere of free movement and speech since mediaeval law enshrined the right of passage along certain designated routes. Important for the movement of political correspondents in the 18th century and the formation of a nascent working-class politics in the 19th, a space of contestation between automobilists and those seeking to maintain it as a locale for the conduct of neighbourhood life in the 20th, the highway (as the 'information superhighway') is frequently invoked as a triumph of western liberal-capitalist democracy in the 21st. The conference will include papers from any perspective in relation to the historical connections between human sociability and mobility, including: * different kinds; from the transport of people to the mobility of goods, merchandise and ideas, from enforced movements to the discretionary consumption of mobility * different periods; from mediaeval or earlier to the contemporary * different scales; from large transport regimes to individual mobilities, from neighbourhood to global flows * different actors; from mechanical technologies to human- and animal-powered mobilities * different spaces; from developed to developing countries and transnational zones. The Keynote Address - 'Home Lands: How Women's Movements Made the West' The conference will open on the Thursday evening with a keynote address by Virginia Scharff, Professor of History and Director, Center for the Southwest, University of New Mexico. Currently Beinecke Senior Research Fellow, Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders, Yale University, Professor Scharff is author or editor of five academic books, including Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, and the West (University of California Press, 2003) and Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age (Free Press, 1991). She also works as a consultant with museums and documentary film makers, as well publishing best-selling mystery novels under the pseudonym Virginia Swift. Virginia Scharff's keynote address is based on her work over the past five years with the Autry National Center in Los Angeles on a museum exhibition and book titled Home Lands: How Women Made the West. The exhibition looks at three places in the American West, examining the ways in which women used a particular resource to claim that place as 'home' over hundreds, and in one case, thousands of years. One of those places is the region articulated around the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, ultimately including the city of Denver, Colorado, and the resource examined is transportation. The project looks at the relation between women's history and the horse, the railroad and the motorcar, to discuss changes in cultural landscapes and social patterns. In each case, the mode of transportation shaped (and was shaped by) locals' and transients' notions about who belonged to the place, who had authority to determine what happened there, who had the right to claim the place as 'home' and on what terms. The Department of History at the University of York enjoys a high reputation for its Cultural History Conferences with their emphasis on allowing ample time for presentations and discussion coupled with a lively social programme. This conference is organized in conjunction with the Institute of Railway Studies & Transport History, the Department's partnership since 1995 with the National Railway Museum. The Museum, one of the UK's leading tourist attractions, will be the main location for the conference, including an evening social event in one of the spectacular exhibition halls. Please note that all participants will be expected to register for the conference. Registration fees are expected to be around £125, including all lunches and evening events, with a limited number of bursaries for students and others without institutional support. We intend to publish a selection of the papers as a edited book or as a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal. 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