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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Migration and Citizenship: Mutations, Metissage,
Multilingualism , 18-19 January 2012, Lyon
> H-ASIA
> October 24, 2011
>
> Call for papers: Migration and Citizenship: Mutations, Metissage,
> Multilingualism, 18-19 January 2012, Lyon, Universite de Lyon (Jean Moulin
> Lyon 3) in collaboration with City University of Hong Kong
>
> *****************************************************************
> From: Florent Villard <feinanfei@gmail.com>
>
> *INAUGURAL CONFERENCE OF THE FEDERATIVE RESEARCH NETWORK MC3M **(MIGRATION
> AND CITIZENSHIP: MUTATIONS, METISSAGES, MULTILINGUALISM)*
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> date : January 18-19, 2012
>
> *Location : Universite Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France*
>
>
> A central figure in the modern political imaginary of the Nation-state,
> the citizen is theoretically imagined as an acultural and atemporal
> indiidual; a colourless, memory-less, bearer of neither language nor
> origin. Thus as a pure political subject, s/he represents the modern
> individual who can exist and move about in the regulated but fragmented
> space of the world of nation-states. However, this universal and radical
> definition of citizenship, inititiated by the Enlightenment philosophers,
> is marked by an implicit ethnocentrism and embedded within a core of
> localized norms, values and cultural practices whence comfortable
> discourses on cultural diversity may be enunciated. As Homi Bhabha stated:
> "A transparent norm is constituted, a norm given by the host society, or
> dominant culture, which says that 'these other cultures are fine, but we
> must be able to locate them within our own grid.'"
>
> With the emergence, since the 16th century of the capitalist economy,
> associated with European colonial globalization, human migration has
> increased apace. (Im)migrants and minorities have been confronted with the
> problematic question of citizenship in tense situations that range from
> their total absence from local collective representation to
> institutionalised discrimination and everyday racism.
>
> Within modern nation-states, institutional and discursive devices have at
> various degrees and times contributed to imagining these migrants as
> absolute Others, thus creating the false image of a homogeneous and pure
> majority. However, because of their very presence, their assertion of
> identity or the simple representation of their differences, diasporic
> cultures have participated in the destabilisation of the imaginary of
> dominant cultures and have finally contributed to the unveiling of
> concealed assumptions about "universal" citizenship.
>
> This diasporic movement, which involves individual micro-histories as well
> as the journeys of families and communities, has left--and continues to
> leave--traces on the streets and on walls of contemporary metropolises.
> Yet it has also left its marks on screens, languages, memory, literatures
> and imaginaries.
>
> The modern illusion of the concurrence between 'communities' and culture,
> being the product of nation-building and colonial history, does not hold
> out against the emergence of a political, intellectual and cultural
> thought constituted out of, and produced through, multiplicity,
> *metissage* and hybridity. This historical conjunction of circumstances
> calls for a re-examination of texts and practices of the modern world,
> taking its distance from the normative categories of dominant
> epistemologies, such as traditional anthropology and its logic of
> identifying, sorting and controlling collective identities.
>
> Moreover, in order to avoid falling in the trap of cultural essentialism,
> our reflection requires us to move beyond positions of power to consider
> how texts, practices and imaginaries intersect and interweave. Francois
> Laplantine states that "abandoning one's position of domination is
> necessary for metissage to take place." He also warns us that a hybrid
> thought which would place itself above metissage is an imposture.
> Christine Delphy notes that "hierarchy does not follow division, it comes
> along -- or even a quarter of a second before -- as intention. Groups are
> simultaneously created as distinct *and* hierarchically ordered."
>
> The conference will not attempt to identify or define the outlines of
> different cultural identities; neither will it aim to measure the exchange
> between "us" and "them" in a so-called "intercultural" perspective from
> where the problematic of the locus of enunciation, of power and
> hierarchization would be obliterated. The objective is to focus on what
> brings together the questions of citizenship and migration, namely the
> intertwined relationship between the reifying and performative power of
> those who nominate, and the phenomenon of m?tissage and leakage to escape
> this power.
>
> This conference is open to multiple approaches without cultural,
> geographic, or disciplinary limits. The problems associating the phenomena
> of migration and definitions of political identity are inherent to the
> contemporary universal political form of the nation-state and our
> reflection will not be restricted to Euro-America; papers focusing on
> Asia, South America or
> Africa, and of course diverse diaspora are also welcome.
>
>
> Potential themes of focus include, but are not limited to:
>
>
> DISCOURSE AND THE REPRESENTATION OF MIGRATION
>
> CULTURAL HYBRIDITY AND MULTILINGUALISM IN THE PROCESS OF GLOBALISATION
>
> CITIZENSHIP AND MINORITIES
>
> LAW, REGULATION AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY
>
> MIGRATIONARY MOVEMENTS OF THE FUTURE
>
>
>
>
> With the participation of:
>
> The Institute of Transtextual and Transcultural Studies (Lyon 3), The Hong
> Kong Advanced Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Studies (City University of
> Hong-Kong), The Confucius Institute of Lyon, The Department of Chinese
> Studies (Lyon 3)
>
>
> Proposals should be between 150/200 words, and include the paper's title
> and the author's name, affiliation, and contact information. Please submit
> proposals to Florent Villard (feinanfei@gmail.com) no later than December
> 1, 2011.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Florent Villard
> Maitre de Conferences, Chinese and Transcultural Studies
> Directeur adjoint, IETT (EA-4186)
> Institute of Transtextual and Transcultural Studies
> Directeur, Structure Federative de Recherche MC3M
> Migration and Citizenship: Mutations, Metissage, Multilingualism
> Universite de Lyon (Jean Moulin Lyon 3)
>
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