Royal Holloway
University of London
April 27, 2012
With accelerated inter- and intra-national mobility, the concepts of
place and displacement, and their impact on individual and collective
identities, have received unprecedented scholarly attention in
disciplines as diverse as Geography, Politics, Music, Film and Media
Studies, English, Postcolonial Studies and Migration and Diaspora
Studies. The growing importance of multi-locality, transnational (and
‘post-national’) communities, cosmopolitanism and various forms of
flexible citizenship call binarisms which posit ‘the stranger’ as ‘the
Other’ of the indigenous community, as the ‘guest’ who is welcomed by
the hegemonic host society, into question.
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The conference aims to attract papers from postgraduate students working
in or (in)between the fields of Geography, Politics, Music, Film and
Media Studies, English, Postcolonial Studies and Migration and Diaspora
Studies.
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