Empowered Bodies - PhD Conference 2018

Tuesday 26 June 2018

09:00-17:00pm

Speaker: Professor Karen Throsby - Unviersity of Leeds, Professor Nick Crossley - University of Manchester

Art Exhibition: Sally Hewett - http://www.sallyhewett.co.uk/

Presentation:

We are pleased to announce our Postgraduate Conference for students and researchers interested in the role of the body in social sciences and the concept of embodiment as a source of critical reflection in diverse disciplines.

With a diverse of background and studies levels we are pleased to announce that our conference will be composed by four panels that cross along the following topics:

• Identities
• Fat Studies
• Health
• Race
• Representation
• Standards
• Beauty
• Migration
• Senses
• Spaces
• Media
• Discourses

To review the detailed programme please follow the link to view the: PROGRAMME

We are welcoming delegates from all research levels that would like to participate in supportive discussion that would enhance the topics and the conference itself, as well as make it a great opportunity to meet other students and share experiences.

Our registration fee is £5.00 that will help us to provide lunch and refreshments during the day: http://store.york.ac.uk/product-catalogue/sociology/postgraduate-conference-2018-empowered-bodies

Besides of the payment we are asking the delegates to fill a registration for that is available in this link: http://docs.google.com/forms/d/1d-bs1cHUfRyb44c4J_AcAy-GK1NmXfRog94AjOeoXhM/edit

The Research Centre for Social Sciences is located in Heslington West campus, just in front of the Science Park, you can visit their website: http://www.york.ac.uk/social-science/about/directions/

From the train station we recommend to take the 66 Bus that will take you to JB Morrell library and then take a 5 minutes’ walk towards Science Park.

If you have any further queries or questions please contact us at empowered-bodies@york.ac.uk

CURB Seminar: Grasping the Everyday Rhythms and Atmospheres of a Fish Market

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 3.00pm to 4pm

Speaker: Dr Dawn Lyon, University of Kent

This presentation takes two fish markets as sites to explore urban social life. Inspired by Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis (2004) and the embodied experience of moving through and sensing market space, I consider the value of using different audio-visual approaches as a mode of documentation and a medium of inquiry to analyse rhythm and atmosphere. The first example, a study of Billingsgate, London’s wholesale fish market, takes the form of an audio-visual montage of the market hall through the night based on time-lapse photography and sound recordings (with Kevin Reynolds, 2013). The resultant ‘film’ renders the elusive quality of the market and the work that takes place within it to make it happen, and allows viewers to perceive rhythm. The second example is a short ethnographic film about the everyday life of a wholesale fish market in Sardinia, Italy. The Passage of Fish (with Francesco Bachis, Felice Tiragallo and Antonio Pusceddu, 2015) shows sellers’ and buyers’ techniques of communication, evaluation, exchange, and care, and how social relations are animated by the market space, the material dimensions of market life and the alluring presence of the fish itself. Both films immerse the viewer in the material, sensory and affective atmosphere of the market. This talk critically considers the documentation, evocation and analysis of time and space in these ways, and the extent to which these approaches provide a means of showing social life and an analytic tool for making sense of it.  

Biography
Dawn Lyon is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent where she has worked since 2006. She was previously employed at the University of Essex, and at the European University Institute where she completed her PhD. She has published in the fields of the sociology of work, gender, migration, community, young people’s imagined futures, and visual and sensory sociology. Her current research interests include skill, value, the organisation and rhythms of work, affective relations across the human and non-human, and sensory and embodied labour in the fish industry. She is currently writing a short methods book on rhythmanalysis in Bloomsbury’s What is…? series. @dawnlyon65

Location: W/222 Wentworth College

Admission: FREE - Eventbrite ticket

Email: sarah.shrive-morrison@york.ac.uk

Adrian Favell, Migration and Neo-liberal Europe

Prof Adrian Favell is delivering a talk at the sociology department seminar series on wednesday 20th 3-5pm.

His talk is entitled 'The Migration Equation in a “Neo-Liberal” Europe' and will be engaging with the core of his recent book, Immigration, Integration and Mobility: New Agendas in Migration Studies. 

Adrian Favell will discuss how new internal migrations and mobilities in Europe since the 2000s have messed up traditional nation-state centred conceptions of immigration and integration, which however still dominate public and academic debate. These misconceptions lie behind the virulent anti-EU migrant politics driving the British towards an EU membership referendum certain to take place soon, and illustrate how much public perceptions under-appreciate the degree to which British economy and society – particularly London and the South East – is intimately embedded in Europe. Analysing the shrinking and increasingly absurd options being pursued in negotiations with European partners by the government, the presentation charts the crash course on Europe to which Cameron is headed, as well as considering what a more rational solution to the migration equation would look like.

Museums, Migration and Identity

A chapter co-authored by Gonul Bozoglu (2nd-year PhD) features in a new book called 'Museums Migration and Identity in Europe' (Ashgate 2015).

The chapter is entitled 'Constitutive others and the management of difference: museum representations of Turkish identities' and is co-researched and co-authored with one of the book editors, Prof Chris Whitehead from Newcastle University. It looks at museum displays in Turkey and Western Europe - particularly the Netherlands and Germany where there are large Turkish populations in relation to issues of identity, migration and alterity. 

With ever-increasing attention to migration both in political and cultural spheres, the book is a landmark contribution to a critical field of study and practice.

 

The imperatives surrounding museum representations of place have shifted from the late eighteenth century to today. The political significance of place itself has changed and continues to change at all scales, from local, civic, regional to national and supranational. At the same time, changes in population flows, migration patterns and demographic movement now underscore both cultural and political practice, be it in the accommodation of ‘diversity’ in cultural and social policy, scholarly explorations of hybridity or in state immigration controls. 



The book investigates the historical and contemporary relationships between museums, places and identities. It brings together contributions from international scholars, academics, practitioners from museums and public institutions, policymakers, and representatives of associations and migrant communities to explore all these issues.

Click here for more details about the book. 

If you are interested in buying the book with a 50% discount then drop Gonul a line on gb784@york.ac.uk to get a discount code

Dr Xiaodong Lin's New Book: Gender, Modernity and Male Migrant Workers in China: Becoming a 'Modern' Man

Examining Chinese male migrant workers’ identity formation, this book explores their experience of rural-urban migration and their status as an emerging sector of a dislocated urban working class. It seeks to understand issues of gender and class through the rural migrant men’s narratives within the context of China’s modernization, and provides an in-depth analysis of how these men make sense of their new lives in the rapidly modernizing, post-Mao China with its emphasis on progress and development. Further, this book uses the men’s own narratives to challenge the elite assumption that rural men’s low status is a result of their failure to adopt a modern urban identity and lifestyle. Drawing on interviews with 28 male rural migrants, Xiaodong Lin unpacks the gender politics of Chinese men and masculinities, and in turn contributes to a greater understanding of global masculinities in an international context.

Link to amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gender-Modernity-Migrant-Workers-China/dp/0415626579