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Konference i England: 'Globalizing Cultures, Identities and Lifestyles'

The Global Studies Association's Eleventh Annual Conference in Manchester. About recent research and theory which have expanded our understanding of globalizing and global practices that increasingly shape the way we conduct our lives, construct our identities and affiliations, and pursue our hopes and aspirations.

Innumerable fragments of other people’s cultures flow into our lives through all mediums of communication. Sometimes they empower individuals to seek other worlds and identities. At others, they generate resources with which to construct our preferred individual life biographies.

 

Sometimes, too, people move far beyond assembling a bricolage of elements and instead break free from their original embeddedness within particular ethnic/national boundaries to form global allegiances and lifestyles for which there is no precedent. In contrast, the circumstances that engender indifference and/or resistance to globalizing cultures are equally valid as themes.

 

We are strongly interested in papers that explore the limits to developing a global consciousness or varieties of cosmopolitanism as outcomes of global cultural experiences and/or which critique concepts in this field. Although the primary emphasis here is on cultural experiences, we also welcome papers which explore how exposure to globalizing work, religious or political practices are changing people’s identities.

 

Possible Directions and Themes:

 

    - The migration and /or cross fertilization of sport practices, institutions and celebrities across cultural and national boundaries and their impact on the socio-cultural life of groups;

 

    - The diffusion, role and take-up of globalizing health practices on the everyday lives of ordinary people and the mechanisms through which this occurs;

 

    - How different kinds of skilled transnational migrants are influenced by and in turn shape the dominant cultural, political and other forms evident in the host society;

 

    - How poor economic migrants, who retain strong ties to their societies and cultures of birth, nevertheless forge multiple identities through engagements with members of the host society or with migrants from societies different from their own;

 

    - The borrowing, mixing and/or hybridization of genres, styles or practices across ethnic/national borders in any field of the arts, film, music, literature, theatre, dance etc – and the origins, vehicles and outcomes of and for such cultural mobilities;

 

    - Becoming or being cosmopolitan through engaging in globalizing leisure or lifestyle practices;

 

    - Travel and tourism as paths into global lifestyles and the encountering the cultural other;

 

    - Globalizing lifestyles and identities and their possible links to the expression of varying forms of political protest.

 

 

For further detailed information visit the association’s homepage which will be updated in due course. www.globalstudiesassociation.org

 

To register and pay for the conference visit MMU’s ‘On-line store’ and look for the GSA conference box: www.fin.mmu.ac.uk

 

             

International Sociological Association

E-mail: isa@isa-sociology.org

Website:  

www.isa-sociology.org/conference.php?t=132

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