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Liebe KollegInnen,

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Bitte beachtet den angeh=E4ngten Call for papers.

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Liebe Gr=FC=DFe,

Sabine Menges

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Dear friends,

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We welcome papers to our panel =93Human entanglements with =
infrastructures:
mobility, sociality, and the built environment=94 to be held within =
Vienna
Anthropology Days (VANDA) in Vienna on September 19-22, 2018.

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Despite long histories of colonization, arctic and subarctic areas have
(re)appeared as new resource frontiers of the 21st century. With the
advancement of resource extraction and construction technologies as well =
as
the increasing attention of developers, politicians and other =
stakeholders,
new transportation and industrial infrastructures are imagined, planned =
and
built. They physically change the landscapes by affecting local and
indigenous land use practices and mobility regimes and boosting the =
growth
of urban infrastructure and industrial settlements along its way.
Large-scale infrastructure projects produce networks of human and =
non-human
actors, including resource extraction companies, state bodies, NGOs and
other interest groups, as well as tracks, rails, mines, financial and
natural resources, etc. These constellations are formed and reconfigured =
in
the process of negotiations about development plans, distribution of
benefits, and access to resources and particular infrastructure =
services. In
this panel we use the notions of =93hard=94 infrastructures (rails, =
roads,
pipes, ports, buildings) and =93soft=94 ones (social institutions and =
groups,
interactions and knowledge) in order to address co-production of =
material
structures (of the built environment) and social networks. Questions we
intend to explore may be related to the roles of state and private =
investors
in infrastructure projects; benefits, =93fly-over effects=94 and other =
impacts
on local communities; practices of land use, mobility, and sociality =
induced
by new infrastructures; and other material and affective interactions of
humans with infrastructure. We invite papers in the fields of =
infrastructure
and materiality studies, social impact assessments, STS or Actor Network
Theory involving both present-day and historical investigations. While =
the
regional focus of the panel is on arctic and subarctic regions, we =
actively
encourage comparative studies in other =93remote=94 areas, in the Global =
South
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Please, feel free to circulate the information and submit your abstracts =
of
no longer than 4000 characters by June 15 2018 through the conference
website following the link
https://vanda.univie.ac.at/program/call-for-papers/online-paper-submissio=
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In case of questions or queries, do not hesitate to contact the panel
chairs:

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Olga Povoroznyuk olga.povoroznyuk@univie.ac.at

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Gertrude Saxinger gertrude.saxinger@univie.ac.at

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Peter Schweitzer peter.schweitzer@univie.ac.at

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Olga Povoroznyuk

Postdoctoral researcher

Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology University of Vienna
Universit=E4tsstra=DFe 7

A-1010 Wien

https://ksa.univie.ac.at/institut/mitarbeiterinnen/post-docs/povoroznyuk-=
olg
a/

http://core.univie.ac.at

tel.: +43 1 4277 49580

e-mail: olga.povoroznyuk@univie.ac.at

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For further information please contact any of the following:

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Valerio Simoni

The Graduate Institute Geneva (Switzerland)

vals_sim@yahoo.com

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Anna Lisa Ramella

Universitt Siegen

anna.ramella@gmail.com

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Noel Salazar

KU Leuven

noel.Salazar@kuleuven.be

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