Message posted on 12/01/2023

CfA: Kinship and relatedness amidst mobility-facilitating work policies, extended deadline: 20.01.2023

Dear colleagues, Forwarding the below call for abstracts which may be of interest to some of you. Best wishes, Maarja Kaaristo

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Kl=C4=81vs Sedlenieks Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 at 18:13 Subject: CfA: Kinship and relatedness amidst mobility- facilitating work policies, extended deadline: 20.01.2023

Dear all,

For these who missed the deadline but wanted to apply for this conference = =E2=80=93 the deadline was extended to January 20, 2023.

March 30, 2023, Riga Stradins University, Riga Latvia

This one-day conference is a side-event of the 3rd international and interdisciplinary conference PLACES, organized by R=C4=ABga Stradi=C5=86=C5= =A1 University.

Despite recurrent theoretical predictions, humans still are very much inclined to form long-term intensive (=E2=80=9Cstrong=E2=80=9D) ties of kin= ship and relatedness. However, kinship is often treated as an institution that does not go well with best practices of contemporary life: Granovetter's =E2=80= =9Cstrong ties=E2=80=9D were, for instance, thought to impede development. Regimes of governance and specific institutions often develop mobility or rotational schemes intentionally to prevent people from forming too strong ties with each other. In other situations, it is the basic structure of work regimes due to which kin and relatedness ties are constantly challenged (as, for instance, in diplomatic or military services). We invite contributions that analyse how kinship, relatedness, and human ties in general are challenged by constant and periodic movements. We also invite contributions that analyse institutional policies towards family and kin ties that inevitably get entangled into mobility processes.

Abstract submission: https://rw2023.rsu.lv/abstract-submission. NB when submitting, indicate that this is for the =E2=80=9CKinship and relatedness = amidst mobility- facilitating work policies=E2=80=9D. The submission form is divid= ed into aims/methods/discussion sections but you may freely ignore this division and just fill one block of abstract.

With best regards

Klavs

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