Mobility and Civil Society: How Social Commitment Takes Place

Mobility and Civil Society: How Social Commitment Takes Place

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Interdisciplinary Research Group CULTURES OF MOBILITY IN EUROPE (COME)
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Ort
Freiburg i. Br.
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
05.12.2013 - 06.12.2013
Deadline
07.07.2013
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Von
Matthias Möller

-Extendet Deadline: 07.07.2013_

For a long time, social proximity, neighbourhood, and long-term sharing of local space were considered a central prerequisite for community building and the articulation of collective interests. Throughout history, various social and political initiatives and associations have reflected this in their approaches to social reform, as well as in their specific forms of recruitment, organization and social mobilization. In recent times however, spatial mobilities increasingly govern the everyday lives of large sections of populations around the world. Mobile ways of life arise from demands of globalized job markets, specific arrangements in family and personal relationships, or sophisticated leisure activities. Beyond the effects on individual lifeworlds and lifecourses, the novel trans- and multi-local patterns also have a strong impact on how people build solidarities and engage in the realm of civil society.

Our workshop will take a closer look at the question of how a sense of community and collectivity is formed under mobile circumstances, how networks of solidarity and modes of participation function beyond locally rooted forms of organizing. Leading questions are:

- How did/do mobile groups and milieus organize in the past and present?
- How do activists and organizations try to involve mobile members?
- How do practices of organizing and campaigning take into account the mobile lives of group members?
- What are the effects of mobility on social commitment and participation in civil society?

We will discuss these questions from the perspectives of

- groups with highly mobile backgrounds and experiences and a longstanding history of organizing under mobile circumstances
- contemporary multilocals / highly mobile people.

Furthermore, we will invite activists for a round table on modes and problems of participation and organizing.

We look forward to contributions from historical and contemporary points of view, particularly to those that take into account the different power relations that shape mobile practices and modes of participation. Please send your abstracts (400 words) and a short CV by June 15, 2013 to matthias.moeller@eu-ethno.uni-freiburg.de.

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Matthias Möller

COME - Institut für Volkskunde, Maximilianstr. 15, 79100 Freiburg

matthias.moeller@eu-ethno.uni-freiburg.de


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