CfP: Migration and Socio-Political Innovation

Event Details

End: June 5, 2017
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More Info: https://www.infoclio.ch/en/node/147181

What role does migration play in establishing new ways of living and in the organization of societies? We are calling for contributions for the conference “Migration and Socio-Political Innovation” (March 2nd, 2018, University of Fribourg). Papers tackling the subject of migration and socio-political innovation should either focus on concrete case studies or theoretical-methodological considerations. Both contemporary and historical debates often consider migration to be a problem. Thus, they frequently overlook the socio-political innovation resulting from different forms of migration. Distancing itself from a neoliberal use of the term, the conference aims to verify whether the concept of socio-political innovation is suitable for the analysis of societal transformations in different social and political areas. Based on a wide meaning of ‘migration’, forms of internal as well as international mobility will be taken into consideration. In the keynote session, Michael Goebel will talk about Migration as a Motor of Change: Colonial Subjects in Interwar France and Decolonization. Selected papers may be presented at the XXIII Congress of the International Committee of Historical Sciences, Poznań 2020