Mobilities New Issue

Mobilities, Vol. 7, No. 4

01 Nov 2012

Now available on Taylor & Francis Online

This new issue contains the following articles:

Articles
Roads and Anthropology: Ethnographic Perspectives on Space, Time and (Im)Mobility
DIMITRIS DALAKOGLOU & PENNY HARVEY
Pages: 459-465
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.718426

Roadside Inventions: Making Time and Money Work at a Road Construction Site in Mozambique☆
Morten Nielsen
Pages: 467-480
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.718428

Between the Material and the Figural Road: The Incompleteness of Colonial Geographies in Amazonia
Jeremy M. Campbell
Pages: 481-500
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.718429

Furrows and Walls, or the Legal Topography of a Frontier Road in Peru
Richard Kernaghan
Pages: 501-520
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.718932

The Enchantments of Infrastructure
Penny Harvey & Hannah Knox
Pages: 521-536
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.718935

Rush and Relax: the Rhythms and Speeds of Touting Perishable Products on a Ghanaian Roadside
Gabriel Klaeger
Pages: 537-554
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.718936

Roads that Separate: Sino-Mongolian Relations in the Inner Asian Desert
Morten Axel Pedersen & Mikkel Bunkenborg
Pages: 555-569
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.718938

‘The Road from Capitalism to Capitalism’: Infrastructures of (Post)Socialism in Albania
Dimitris Dalakoglou
Pages: 571-586
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.718939

Referees who reported for Mobilities during 2011/12
Referees who reported for Mobilities during 2011/12

Pages: 587-589
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.734057

Mobilities
Editorial Board

Pages: ebi-ebi
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.742710

Citizenship from Below

I am pleased to announce the publication of my new book, Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom (Duke University Press).

Citizenship from Below boldly revises the history of the struggles for freedom by emancipated peoples in post-slavery Jamaica, post-independence Haiti, and the wider Caribbean by focusing on the interplay between the state, the body, race, and sexuality. Mimi Sheller offers a new theory of “citizenship from below” to describe the contest between “proper” spaces of legitimate high politics and the disavowed politics of lived embodiment.

“This is a stimulating, thought-provoking book of lasting significance to scholarship on the Caribbean, citizenship, sexuality, and embodiment. The way that Mimi Sheller puts the literatures on embodiment and citizenship into dialogue is impressive and important. After reading her analysis of these two bodies of scholarship, I will never again be able to think about one without considering the other. Citizenship from Below is a very distinguished book, one which will be widely read and discussed.”—Diana Paton, co-editor of Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing

For more information, and to order the book directly from Duke University Press, please visit http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid= 18033

You can now read the introduction to Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom, here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/87835013/Citizenship-from-Below-by-Mimi-Sheller

A book launch will be held at the Caribbean Studies Association 37th Annual Conference with the theme “Unpacking Caribbean Citizenship: Rights, Participation and Belonging”, 28 May to 1 June 2012 in Guadeloupe.

Mimi Sheller is Professor of Sociology at Drexel University and the author of Democracy after Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica and Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies.

 

CIRCULATION INTERRUPTED: WALLS AND THEIR DISCONTENTS

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting Program Details

Session Information: Program Number: 4-0765

Type: Invited Session

Session Sponsor: AAA Executive Program Committee

Session Date/Time: Saturday, November 20th, 2010, 1:45 PM-5:30 PM

Graffitti on a A Wall in Haiti

Organizer(s): FARHA GHANNAM (Swarthmore College), MIGUEL DIAZ-BARRIGA (University Texas-Pan American), ANNE MENELEY (Trent University)

Chair(s): MIGUEL DIAZ-BARRIGA (University Texas-Pan American), ANNE MENELEY (Trent University)

Participants:

1:45 PM: INTRODUCTION: ANNE MENELEY (Trent University)

2:00 PM: JOSIAH HEYMAN (University of Texas-El Paso) — Unequal Mobility in the U.S. Borderlands With Mexico: A Synthesis

2:15 PM: AMAHL BISHARA (Tufts University) — The Wall Has Two Sides: Two Kinds of Palestinians

2:30 PM: GILBERTO ROSAS (University of Illinois) — Delinquent Refusals and the Criminal Abandonments of the New Frontier

2:45 PM: KAROLINA SZMAGALSKA-FOLLIS (National University of Maynooth) — Tense Interventions: Towards an Ethnography of Pragmatism

3:00 PM: FARHA GHANNAM (Swarthmore College) — On the Meaning of Walls: Comparative Perspectives on Gated Communities

3:15 PM: DISCUSSANT: GREGORY STARRETT (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)

3:30 PM: MIMI SHELLER — Open Skies and Closed Borders: The Production of Airports as “Soft Walls” on the US-Caribbean Border

3:45 PM: ROCIO MAGANA (Rutgers University) — Border-Crossing Vortex: Migrant Abandonment and Strategic Risk in the Deserts of the American Southwest.

4:00 PM: ANDRE GINGRICH (University of Vienna) — New Borders in Southern Arabia

4:15 PM: MARGARET DORSEY (University Texas Pan American) — Border Wall Mobilities: Circulations of Necro-Citizenship on the U.S.-Mexican Border I

4:30 PM: MIGUEL DIAZ-BARRIGA (University Texas-Pan American) — Border Wall Mobilities: Circulations of Necro-Citizenship on the U.S.-Mexican Border II

4:45 PM: JULIE PETEET (University of Louisville) — Circulation and Walled Countries

5:00 PM: DISCUSSANT: ALEJANDRO LUGO (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)

5:15 PM: DISCUSSION

5:30 PM: End of Session

Anthropology and Mobilities

Anthropology and Mobility

Call for a new boundary-crossing network

Convenor: Noel B. Salazar

Modern Nomad in Mongolia

Mobility, as a concept-metaphor, captures the common impression that people’s life-worlds are in constant flux, with not only persons (including anthropologists), but also cultures, objects, capital, businesses, services, diseases, media, images, information, and ideas circulating across (and even beyond) the planet. Among anthropologists, it is fashionable these days to study tourism, migration, diaspora, and exile; cosmopolitanism and transnationalism; global markets and commodity chains; and global information and communication technologies, media, and popular culture. The literature is replete with metaphorical conceptualizations attempting to describe perceived altered spatial and temporal movements: deterritorialization, reterritorialization, and scapes; time–space compression, distantiation, or punctuation; the network society and its space of flows; the death of distance and the acceleration of modern life; and nomadology. The interest in mobility goes hand in hand with theoretical approaches that reject a sedentarist metaphysics in favour of a nomadic one and empirical studies on diverse mobilities, questioning taken-for-granted correspondences between peoples, places, and cultures.

While anthropologists traditionally tended to ignore or regard border-crossing movements as deviations from normative place-bound communities, cultural homogeneity, and social integration, the discourses of globalization and cosmopolitanism of the 1990s shifted the pendulum in the opposite direction, mobility often being promoted as normality, and (too much) place attachment a digression or resistance against globalizing forces. At the same time, critically engaged anthropologists were among the first to point out that not all mobilities are valued equally positively and that the very processes and regimes that produce trans-border movements also result in geographical and social immobility.

This new scholarly network aims to facilitate theoretical and methodological exchanges on anthropology and mobility. What is the analytical purchase of (im)mobility as a conceptual framework to study and understand the current human condition? What are the most adequate methods to research objects of study “on the move”? The network will not only foster intellectually stimulating debates among anthropologists working on mobility along various thematic and conceptual lines, but will also create exciting opportunities for collaborative research and publications.

We kindly invite everyone interested to attend our first network meeting, which will be held during the 11th EASA Biennial Conference in Maynooth, Ireland (24-27th August). The meeting will take place on Wednesday, 25 August, from 20.00 until 21.30. The exact location will be announced at the conference through flyers (http://www.easaonline.org/).

Those who want to express their interest in joining the network may contact:
Noel B. Salazar, Ph.D.
Cultural Mobilities Research (CuMoRe)
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Leuven
Parkstraat 45, bus 3615, BE-3000 Leuven
Noel.Salazar@soc.kuleuven.be