[H-verkko] CFP: Where is the Field? Exploring labor and migration studies through the lenses of fieldwork

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Where is the Field? Exploring labor and migration studies through the
lenses of fieldwork

Call for Contributions

Edited Volume for Studia Fennica Ethnologica

Where is the field? Exploring labor and migration studies through the
lenses of fieldwork

Editors Hanna Snellman & Laura Hirvi
Publisher: The Finnish Literature Society

Ethnologists seek to achieve a better understanding of the human
experience through the exploration of different kinds of life worlds.
The examination of work has played a prominent role in this tradition,
and the anthropological turn in ethnology was many times first tested
in labor studies. Ethnologists studied also immigrant groups at an
early stage in countries where they were big in number. Increasingly,
ethnologists have been focusing on the experience of migration and
labor migration together, because both create a life world that has a
significant impact on the lives of individuals and communities and the
way they fashion their identities. These studies are mostly based on
thick and rich data, collected through ethnographic fieldwork. But
what exactly does the method of ethnographic fieldwork entail? And
how does a researcher find, define, access or exit the field when
examining workers and  immigrants? It is our contention that
reflecting on these questions is of uttermost importance for
enhancing the method of ethnographic fieldwork.

In the edited volume for the Studia Fennica Ethnologica series, we
will turn our focus on scrutinizing the methods of fieldwork as used
in the study of immigrants, workers and a combination of both. We
invite researchers to submit articles that examine the experience of
labor, migration or labor migration while critically reflecting on
their ethnographic fieldwork experience. Articles reflecting on
changing fieldwork approaches in ethnology or dealing with an
historical approach are especially welcomed. By pointing out how
fieldworkers respond to possible challenges, obstacles and
opportunities faced during fieldwork, we hope to collect innovative
approaches that can be used for an elaboration of this method that is
so essential for ethnology.

This edited volume will be published in Fall 2011. Those interested
in contributing to this volume should submit an abstracts with 300
words by February 1st, 2010. Please sent the abstract to:
laura.j.hirvi(at)jyu.fi.

Those scholars chosen to contribute to this volume should submit the
first draft of their article November 1st 2010. The length of the
article submitted to this volume should not exceed 10,000 words.

For further inquiries, please contact:

Hanna Snellman, Professor of Ethnology, Department of History and
Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä, hanna.k.snellman(at)jyu.fi

or
Laura Hirvi, MA, PhD student, Department of History and Ethnology at
the University of  Jyväskylä, 09/2009-06/2010 Visiting Fulbright
Student at UC Santa Barbara, Department of Religious Studies
laura.j.hirvi(at)jyu.fi 

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Ilmoituksen lähetti: Hanna Snellman <hanna.k.snellman at jyu.fi>
Ilmoitus vanhentuu: 03.02.2009
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