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BRICS on the Move - a Centre for Mobilities Research workshop
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2010-09-01 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-07-13 |
| Announcement ID: |
177471 |
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CALL FOR PAPERS
BRICS on the Move - 12 November 2010 - Lancaster UK
Workshop Organisers: Thomas Birtchnell, David Tyfield & John Urry, CeMoRe
The acronym BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China) was coined by the Goldman Sachs consultant Jim O'Neill in 2001. It has since become a common umbrella term in media, academic and government rhetoric about the future potential of these 'emerging giants', in particular the threat/opportunity that these economies present to the developed world. The regionalised perspective of BRICs encourages a commodified picture of these countries around major risks/opportunities: investment, global hegemony, social transformation and climate change. The BRICs is the West/North's dream of a new East/South with geo-political status and power to rival the developed world. Indeed, much BRICs discourse echoes Cold War rhetoric, which in turn resonates with the unspeakable commonality (for investors at least) that all four of the BRICs were (or remain, in title) socialist states.
Papers and presentations are invited on topics on themes such as:
Automobility and the emerging powers;
Case studies on individual BRICs countries and mobilities issues;
Global impact of BRICs-based innovation, including for socioeconomic development;
Transnational elites, migration, tourism, remittances, capital flows, trade;
Socio-political history of BRICs or related global quasi-institutions;
Media representations of BRICs in terms of emerging powers/giants rhetoric;
Low carbon innovation/technology/knowledge transfer and the impact of the BRICs on climate change mitigation and adaptation;
Critiques or sociological analyses of the prevailing finance/economic focus on investment, economic growth, risk and carbon emissions in understandings of BRICS
Abstracts should include a title, contact details of the author(s) (name, postal address, email) and a summary of no more than 300 words and submitted to the organisers (t.birtchnell@lancaster.ac.uk) no later than 1 September 2010. The workshop will be held at Lancaster University on 12 November 2010 from 11am to 6pm.
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