Theorizing Lifestyle Migration
Conceptual approaches for the study of leisure-oriented movements and residential tourism
** Call for papers **
* Workshop scheduled for January 28th & 29th, 2010 *
Centre of Human and Social Sciences (CCHS)
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Madrid - Spain
In recent years, lifestyle-oriented migration and mobilities such as the relocation of relatively affluent (and often senior) citizens to coastal areas and warmer climates have stimulated interdisciplinary debate at the interface of disciplines such as Social Anthropology, Sociology, Tourism Studies, Urban Planning and Human Geography. Although an individual lifestyle experience located within conditions of postmodernity, leisure-oriented migration and mobilities do not refer exclusively to persons but also involve movements of capital, objects, and knowledge, and are implicated in local politics and urban development within the destinations. To date, great efforts have been undertaken to engage empirically with the phenomenon of lifestyle migration, often relegating conceptual debates to second place.
The workshop aims at debating different paths to theorize lifestyle migration and encourages communications that broaden the connections between empirical work and theoretical assumptions or develop conceptual frames to discuss lifestyle-oriented migration and mobilities.
Amongst others, we will debate:
- Methodological approaches to study lifestyle migration
- Negotiations between social theory and lifestyle migration
- Politics, Spatialities and governance of lifestyle migration
- Lifestyle migration as an expression of European citizenship
- Theorizing age(ing) and lifestyle
The workshop will bring together a limited number of experienced and young researchers (not more than 15). It aims at establishing profound discussions of research 'in progress' and research papers that are submitted prior to the workshop. Each participant will be given a 45-minutes timeslot for discussion of his/her paper. In order to ensure in-depth discussion, the presentations are restricted to a maximum of 7 minutes, followed by two comments of 5 minutes each. Subsequently, all participants will be asked to prepare two comments regarding other papers.
We expect to receive paper proposals of not more than 500 words before November 9th, 2009. All accepted authors are invited to submit full papers of a maximum of 7,500 words before December 31st, 2009. The organizers can provide financial support (flight & hotel) to a restricted number of participants.
Further information and Abstract reception:
Michael Janoschka, Postdoctoral Marie Curie research fellow in Madrid (michael.janoschka@cchs.csic.es)
Heiko Haas, PhD student at the Centre of Human and Social Sciences, Madrid
(heiko-haas@web.de)
Thank you Ana Estevens for the information!