Message posted on 14/06/2018

Mobility Mailing list Panel "Human entanglements with infrastructures: mobility, sociality, and the built environment", VANDA conference, Vienna, Sept 19-22

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 and elsewhere.=20

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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= n/=20

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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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EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network (ANTHROMOB)

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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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