[H-verkko] CFP: Temporary and Mobile Domesticities, 1600 to the present - 29.9.2017 London

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Temporary and Mobile Domesticities, 1600 to the present - 29.9.2017 London
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CFP: Temporary and Mobile Domesticities, 1600 to the present

29th of September 2017, The Geffrye Museum, London

Traditionally, home is imagined as a specific place, a site of stability,
continuity, safety, and familiarity. Yet, homelife is also characterised by
mobility and temporariness. Medieval households were constantly on the move.
Sailors, soldiers, merchants, peddlars and travelling artisans have long
traversed land and sea, and servants, apprentices, and lodgers typically
inhabited the houses of others – at least for a significant part of the life
cycle. More recently, the chaos and disruptions of war and natural disaster have
uprooted millions of people from their homes (and homelands) and forced them to
spend indeterminate periods of time in temporary conditions. How does the
time-limited nature of these residences affect home-making practices, and what
can it tell us about the function and meaning of home and domesticity?

This one-day workshop explores the manner in which mobility and temporariness
impact upon ideas and practices of home and domesticity. Central questions
include: What kinds of domestic practices, material cultures, homemaking
strategies and feelings about home are related to mobile or temporary
circumstances? What theoretical and methodological challenges can we face when
dealing with mobility or temporariness and how could these difficulties be
overcome? How can people in temporary or mobile circumstances negotiate control
over their own space and everyday life? When is mobility something to aspire to?

The aim is to bring together researchers working in different disciplines to
explore similarities and differences between time periods, geographical
locations and circumstances.  Furthermore, the objective is to discuss how we
might relate temporary and mobile domesticities to larger questions about actor
agency and shifts in economic, social, and political structures. 

Submissions can take the form of 15-20 minute papers, but we also welcome
submissions of less traditional formats - proposals for film, performances, and
artworks would be particularly enthusiastically received. Topics may include,
but are not limited to:

- Momentary homemaking

- The material culture of portability       

- The sense of home/belonging or homelessness/alienation in relation to mobility

- Mobile and transportable housing and housing design

- Institutional and charitable responses to mobility

- How do social identities and stages in the life cycle affect ideas about
temporary living?

- The extent and scale of mobile and temporary homes from the local to the
global

- Remembering and reproducing home and homeland from a distance

- Escaping home through mobility

We encourage submissions both from academics as well as non-academics working
with related themes.

 

Send 200-250 word abstracts (preferably as .docx) to
mobiledomesticities at gmail.com by 30th of July 2017.

 

Workshop location: The Geffrye Museum of Home, 136 Kingsland Road, London, E2
8EA

For more information visit: mobiledomesticities2017.wordpress.com

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Ilmoituksen lähetti: Laika Nevalainen <laika.nevalainen at eui.eu>
Ilmoitus vanhentuu: 31.7.2017
Lisätietoja WWW-osoitteesta: http://mobiledomesticities2017.wordpress.com