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CFP - Palestinian mobility and inequalities - 1st GIS Congress, Paris, July 2015
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1st Congress of the Scientific Interest Group «Moyen-Orient & Mondes musulmans», July 7th-9th, 2015, Paris:
Panel: «Cross-border circulations and inequalities within Palestinian societies»
This panel will take as its starting point the spate of recent researches focused on mobility and exchanges among Palestinians in the Middle East. Its first goal is to explore the nexus of relations between borders, mobility and inequalities within Palestinian societies in Israel/Palestine and beyond, among refugee communities and across the Palestinian diaspora. Researchers have highlighted the political economy of the checkpoint; they have studied the systemic logics at work there as well as along the West Bank wall and at border crossings, insisting on expanding the scope of their inquiries beyond the symbolic load and the effective violence of those places. We want to enrich this perspective, and invite abstracts focusing on what those obstacles become in the long run and in the everyday. This also means investigating the historical precedents of present-day border control policies, such as police control in Mandate Palestine or the use of violence to produce Israel's border from 1949 onwards.
Our second goal is to examine the links between the varying ability of Palestinians to move and social inequalities among them. Legal status and permits precondition Palestinian mobility from one territory to the next. Depending on the case, ability to move is a matrix or a reflexion of socio-economic differences. This perspective is a way for us to address social inequalities within Palestinian societies, and their specificities: inequalities have often been sidelined and replaced in public debate by more political issues such as exile or Israeli occupation. We also want to question the way Palestinian societies have been historicized through the exclusive lens of the Nakba of 1948.
We welcome proposals from various academic fields, such as literature, anthropology, sociology, history and all other branches of social sciences, dealing in particular with three main themes:
• Negotiating and transgressing obstacles: Palestinian mobility is subjected to many constraints; how are these constraints negotiated, contested, transgressed or, somehow, overcome?
• Circulations, social inequalities, status borders: how do obstacles, territorial borders and legal status differenciation reproduce or strengthen existing social inequalities or create new ones? How have Israeli occupation and its effects transformed the structures of social inequalities within Palestinian societies?
• Circulations and inequalities – breaking points and continuities: while acknowledging the foundational dimension of the Nakba for contemporary Palestinian societies, we welcome proposals aimed at re-thinking the temporalities derived from that moment of destruction-reorganization. Panelists are invited to study the ruptures but also the continuities entailed by the event within social hierarchies or along individual trajectories.
Abstracts (maximum 1500 signs, spaces included) should be sent before June 15th, 2014 to: Hala Abou-Zaki (hc.abouzaki@gmail.com); Véronique Bontemps (veronique.bontemps@cnrs.fr); Philippe Bourmaud (pbourmaud@free.fr); and Nada Nader (nader.nada@gmail.com) .
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