CFP: Transnational Mobility among Highly Skilled Professionals: negotiations of status and knowledge

[Helena Pettersson]

CFP: Transnational Mobility among Highly Skilled Professionals: negotiations of status and knowledge

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

The call for papers to our conference panel nr 488, "Transnational Mobility among Highly Skilled Professionals: Negotiations of status and knowledge" at the IUAES - the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Dubrovnik May 4-9 2016, is now open.

 

Panel organizers: Magnus Öhlander, Katarzyna Wolanik Boström & Helena Pettersson

 

The aim with the panel:

Production and circulation of knowledge as well as the formation of hierarchies of knowledge is an inherent part of transnational mobility among highly skilled professionals. Transnational mobility takes many different forms, e.g. conferences, shorter or longer periods of work at a co-company or at a university in another country etc. It has many aims and meanings, e.g. developing professional cooperation, networking, learning new things and gaining experience. For some professionals travelling is a recurring part of the job. In many countries, transnational mobility is strongly encouraged among highly skilled professionals in order to gain new knowledge benefiting the local industry, cultural sector or research. How do the professionals make sense of what they learn, and how do they share their newly gained knowledge? What kinds of knowledge gain are valued upon return and how does it affect the person’s status? The other way around, some professionals as engineers, physicians or scientists spend a limited period of time in another country in order to contribute with knowledge and expertise. This is often related to stereotypes on global north/south and ethnic hierarchies. This panel welcomes papers discussing different types of professional transnational mobility for shorter or longer periods of time, and its effects on (hierarchies of) knowledge, for example:

• transfer of knowledge, skills and hierarchies of knowledge
• processes of deskilling/reskilling
• methodological and theoretical aspects of studying transnational mobility among professionals.
• transnational mobility as a cultural ideal among professionals and/or policy-makers;
• transnational or mobile cultures among professionals.

Alse see panel description and submission deadlines:

http://iuaes2016.com/all-panels/page/8/

http://iuaes2016.com/

 

All the best,

Magnus Öhlander, Helena Pettersson and Katarzyna Wolanik Boström

 

 

Helena Pettersson  Associate Prof.

Dept. of Culture & Media Studies/ Ethnology

Umeå University

SE 901 87 Umeå

Sweden

Office: Room D 210 Humanisthuset

Office phone: +45 (0)90-786 70 55

E-mail: helena.p...@kultmed.umu.se