[Air-L] CFP "Digital Family Practices" ISA Forum 2025 Rabat, Morocco

[Monika Palmberger]

Dear colleagues,

We warmly invite you to submit a paper for the ISA panel “Digital Family Practices” at the ISA Forum of Sociology in Rabat, Morocco, 6-11 July, 2025. Please submit your proposal here, deadline 15 October:https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2025/webprogrampreliminary/Session20774.html

 

Digital Family Practices

Digitization and digital practices have a profound impact on the ways we live our everyday lives. We use smart phones and computers for entertainment, shopping and work, as well as distant parenting. Wi-fi connection points represent large structural and institutional transformations, that also changes the way we do families and close relations. Although we still both marvel and feel uneasy over leaps in the development in digital possibilities, most digital tools have become inevitable and unassuming parts of our everyday lives. Digitalization changes the precondition to do family life and accelerate the questions of what consequences these changes have on families, in families and for society.

This paper session welcomes empirical, theoretical or methodological studies on digitally fueled transformations of the family, that:

·         look at digital family practices, including among migrants, transnational families and refugees, on school and work platforms, in digital personal communication, relations of care, parenting, digital intimacy and play.

·         focus on how digital practices reproduce or challenge traditional family norms, gender norms and norms for parenting, and the display of such norms

·         address all digitally fueled transformations of the family, and how these transformations impact and challenge family both as a concept, a social practice and as an institution in different societies around the world

·         apply and develop the theoretical knowledge of family as a practice, addressing new forms of family sovereignty as well as vulnerabilities in and for the family due to digitalization in everyday lives.

 

Session Organizers:
Nora KOTTMANN German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo  
Monika PALMBERGER, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna 
Randi WÆRDAHL, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
Best wishes,

Monika

 

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Dr. Monika Palmberger

https://www.monikapalmberger.eu

 

Latest publications

Migrants and New Media: Digital Ethnography, Transnationalism, and Superdiversity. In The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity. 2023.

 

Refugees enacting (digital) citizenship through placemaking and care practices near and far. In Citizenship Studies. 2022.

 

Doing Research at Online and Offline Intersections: Bringing Together Digital and Mobile Methodologies (with Katja Kaufmann). In Media and Communication. 2022.

  

Narratives of Transnational Placemaking. Exploring Migrant Workers’ Hidden Histories through Memory-Guided City Walks. In Narrative Culture. 2022.

 

The Nexus of Anthropology and Narrative: Ethnographic Encounters with Storytelling Practices(with Barbara Götsch). In Narrative Culture. 2022. 

 

Special issues

Across mobile online and offline spaces: Reflections on methods, practices, and ethics (with Katja Kaufmann). In Media and Communication, 2022. 

‘Let me tell you a story‘: anthropological encounters with narrative (with Barbara Götsch). In Narrative Culture, 2022.

Books

How Generations Remember (open access!)

Memories on the Move

Care across Distance