Labnet: CfP: Migrations and Identities

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From: michael.sommer at liv.ac.uk

Call for papers 
migrations & identities is a new journal published bi-annually by
Liverpool University Press. The title represents a programme: We aim to
interrogate notions of 'identity' while asking how the fact of mobility
and displacement shapes understandings of self and the wider world,
among both migrants and 'host' societies. By the same token, we seek to
understand how ideas and concepts are transformed as they 'migrate' from
one place and culture to another. 
Multi- and interdisciplinary in both conception and management,
migrations & identities aims to cover the widest possible range of
places, periods and methods, subject only to a shared curiosity and
enthusiasm about the possibilities of working at the interface between
the investigation of the material conditions of migration processes and
the study of ideas and subjectivities. 
In particular, we hope that scholars working in many fields will find in
migrations & identities a forum for discussion of the methods
appropriate to a project of linking observable experience and
mentalities in difference times and places, and that among the topics of
discussion will be the real challenges involved in conversing across
disciplinary boundaries. 
We are now inviting proposals for contributions for the inaugural issue,
to be published in the summer of 2008. We welcome both critical surveys
considering how particular disciplines or fields of study have dealt
with the relationship between migration and identity, and case studies
which exemplify a self-conscious approach to the methodological issues
it raises. Your proposal should be for an article of 5-8,000 words, and
should take the form of an abstract of no more than 300 words. 
Please send abstracts to Mark Choonara at inmotion at liv.ac.uk no later
than 15th September 2007.
  
 
Michael Sommer
The University of Liverpool, SACE 
12-14 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7WZ, UK 
++44 151 794-3041 





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