“borders / debordering” Towards a New World Culture of Hospitality

2021

The challenges of the early decades of the 21st century relate to the survival of humanity as a species. While the covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated a global-scale awareness of the limits of human life on Earth, climate change has for long been putting to the fore the interactions between social, cultural and natural processes. In this context a whole new understanding of the essence and role of Borders, in its multiple dimensions, needs to be brought into focus, and include as well the notions of physical boundaries and territorial control. In this sense, the definition of the Anthropocene as a stage in the history of the Earth entails a radical reshaping of the traditional chronological divisions based on a vision of human history disconnected from nature and reduced to the account of social and technological change. Redefining the idea of border in its multiple dimensions, in present days and through history, becomes of critical importance. Political and geographic frontiers require attention too. Up until the covid-19 crisis, national frontiers seemed to be on a vanishing process: in the post-Cold War world, mass media and popular culture have favoured a narrative of the world open to synergic interconnections. However, this view of globalization has always presented an incomplete picture of reality. Borders, although dispersed and controlled through their constant shifting and movement, may have indeed proliferated rather than disappear, whilst becoming more resistant to particular activities and peoples. Additionally, the boundaries of human society require renewed critical approaches on issues of gender, class, ethnicity, religious beliefs or ideology. Instituted forms of dehumanization, animalization or reification relate to the establishment of social and cultural frontiers throughout history. A focus on the divisions, intersections and hierarchies between human and non-human species, animals, plants and minerals is of paramount importance. Finally, rethinking the traditional, culturally mediated relations between beings and objects demands a thorough disciplinary critique.

Call fo Papers, 2021

The challenges of the early decades of the 21 st century relate to the survival of humanity as a species. While the covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated a global-scale awareness of the limits of human life on Earth, climate change has for long been putting to the fore the interactions between social, cultural and natural processes. In this context a whole new understanding of the essence and role of Borders, in its multiple dimensions, needs to be brought into focus, and include as well the notions of physical boundaries and territorial control. In this sense, the definition of the Anthropocene as a stage in the history of the Earth entails a radical reshaping of the traditional chronological divisions based on a vision of human history disconnected from nature and reduced to the account of social and technological change. Redefining the idea of border in its multiple dimensions, in present days and through history, becomes of critical importance. Political and geographic frontiers require attention too. Up until the covid-19 crisis, national frontiers seemed to be on a vanishing process: in the post-Cold War world, mass media and popular culture have favoured a narrative of the world open to synergic interconnections. However, this view of globalization has always presented an incomplete picture of reality. Borders, although dispersed and controlled through their constant shifting and movement, may have indeed proliferated rather than disappear, whilst becoming more resistant to particular activities and peoples. Additionally, the boundaries of human society require renewed critical approaches on issues of gender, class, ethnicity, religious beliefs or ideology. Instituted forms of dehumanization, animalization or reification relate to the establishment of social and cultural frontiers throughout history. A focus on the divisions, intersections and hierarchies between human and non-human species, animals, plants and minerals is of paramount importance. Finally, rethinking the traditional, culturally mediated relations between beings and objects demands a thorough disciplinary critique. This approach is a means of assessing frontiers in the quest for knowledge as established by modernity in order to overcome their normative

Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning, 2015

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The term, ‘politics of difference’ primarily emerged in the context of identity politics out of the experiences of the subalternity/marginality in the late 1970s. The social movements such as ethnic, women, linguistic, third gender, ecological, peasant, tribal, caste etc, can be constructed through the experiences of those people who are instrumental to articulate their differences in terms of politics, action, ideology, recognition and representation that led to question the hegemony of the agencies. These social movements demand for recognition of their politics and eloquent different forms of resistance against hegemonic subjects/agencies. The ‘idea of recognition’ has been influenced by the philosophical work of Charles Taylor (1992). In his leading essay, ‘The Politics of Recognition’ argued that how people get their identity from being recognized or non-recognized as the subject of the politics of difference. Thus, the identities can be shaped by recognition or non-recognition of the subjective or objective conditions. In epistemology, the ‘Politics of Difference’ refers to the state of “subalternity” that argue condition of subordination brought about by various forms such as political, economic, social, racial, linguistic, geographical/territorial and cultural dominance. The hegemony/power is managed to survive in every corner of the life as Michel Foucault (1976) conceptualized. Who has it and who does not?. Who is gaining it and who is losing it? Power is intimately related to the questions of representation that express the politics of difference by questioning the authority of the text/agency which can exist in different forms. That is why the relationship between subalternity and representation is always problematic when we speak the politics of recognition of the marginal identities in multiculturalism. It is understood as a representation of the marginality shared by a group or community. It means the collective politics of the community while negating the ‘dominant politics’ as James. C Scott (2011) has emphasized in his work, The Art of Not being Governed that the politics of the marginal communities is an art for not being governed rather live in their own cultural world and express dissent in form of non-recognition from the hegemonic agencies. This conference will give a space/platform to the scholars across the world to articulate their marginality or subalternity in different forms of resistance such as region, community, text, agency, gender while corroborating or bringing new debates for understanding the politics of difference. Since the idea of difference or recognition can be constructed through the experiences of marginality this conference will discuss the nature of social or new social movements which are often taking place in every part of the world in diverse forms of resistance or protest. This certainly helps us to understand the paradigm shifts in identity politics that contour the existing scholarship in the present epistemology. However, the experiences of marginalization often overlap. It happens due to idiom of the politics of difference for the recognition. The discourse of dissent does not necessarily begin with clear objectives in terms of the transformation of the society. They often get shaped in the process through the leadership, nature of participation, organization and ideology. Keeping in view of the above discourse this conference is an attempt to explore the diverse ideologies of the social movements, nature of people’s participation and role of organizations as it plays an important role in order to bring a radical social change in the contemporary society. This will certainly discern subaltern voices while negating from ‘dominance’ that led to demand for the recognition or non recognition of their identity.

Conference- CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS The Cooperative Institute for Transnational Studies in collaboration with the University of Aegean (Laboratory EKNEXA-Department of Sociology) announce the world conference Crossing borders Lesvos, 7-10th July

STUDII SI CERCETARI DE ANTROPOLOGIE (SCA), 2017

Numarul 5/2017 al revistei este dedicat Conferinţei Internaţionale „INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY, SOCIETY – CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES”, SECOND EDITION, desfășurată între 4 și 5 octombrie 2017, la Bucureşti. Rezumatele publicate au fost evaluate în sistem „double blind review”. The fifth issue of SCA (online version) is dedicated to the International Conference entitled „INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY, SOCIETY – CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES”, SECOND EDITION, which took place on October 4−5, 2017, in Bucharest, Romania, at the “Francisc I. Rainer” Anthropology Institute of the Romanian Academy. All abstracts were refereed by a double-blind review process under the supervision of the Scientific Committee.