Call for papers for sai annual conference 2022
The SAI Annual Conference 2022 will address the theme of Home. The deadline for abstracts is 17th December 2021, to SAIConference2022@gmail.com.
Please include name, affiliation, contact details, title and 200 word description of paper.
We welcome proposals for panels and creative additions to the programme.
Please include name, affiliation, contact details, title and 200 word description of paper.
We welcome proposals for panels and creative additions to the programme.
Home can be understood in a general sense as belonging, rootedness, comfort, intimacy, reciprocity, and security. It denotes much more than buildings and dwellings, referring to ownership of space in a general sense. Home is found in family, neighbourhoods, suburbs, townlands, community, countries and even our planet and environment. It is also imagined and virtual as well as concrete, existing in memory, imagination, and media. It comes most clearly into view perhaps in its absence, when it is lacking or distant or in question, for instance for migrants, travellers, refugees or the homeless. Homes are a resource and is prone to scarcity through exclusion and monopolisation.
Quite abstract units of interdependence are conceptualised as home - such as home markets, home fronts, welfare states as the peoples’ home, and of course economy itself derives from oikos (household). Senses of home are complex - people can be at home in multiple locales and feel familiarity and strangeness with place simultaneously. We should also not be naive about home as a pure good, as it a place where some are trapped, isolated in, exploited in, and tyrannised in. It is a place to escape for many. It is also a place where others are made to feel unwelcome and are kept out from, as exercises in walling illustrate.
Irish society is experiencing a prolonged housing and homelessness crisis, acting as a case study of an ill of neoliberal society. A combination of connected dynamics, from the withdrawal of the state from social housing, historical deregulation of banking and finance, housing becoming a target for investment by individuals to global firms, a bias towards interventions on the demand rather than supply side by government, alongside insufficient supports to people at risk of homelessness, have produced this malaise. With emergency accommodation at over-capacity for nearly a decade, housing insecurity pervasive, and generations excluded from home ownership, home has become a focus of acute concern.
We should note that the conference takes place in a very particular place: Limerick and the Shannon region. Limerick gives us an exemplary piece of literature on the broken home in Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes, whose popularity is also linked with romantic longing for the homeland by a diaspora. Limerick and Clare have a notable place in community research, through the work of the Harvard Irish Mission. Today some of the best urban ethnographies of neighbourhood in Ireland have been conducted in Limerick - and particular neighbourhoods have become barometers of the success and failure of housing policy. Limerick artist Seán Keating captured the complexities of building a national home in his painting. The Treaty of Limerick 1691 has defined Irish history, as the distribution of land, its monopolisation and insecurity of tenure became its primary driver, shaping a broad Nationalist movement. The limits of who belonged and who the nation would be a home to was expressed however in the Limerick Boycott against the Jewish community in the early 20th Century. Ardnacrusha power station lies a little way up the Shannon. It represents a state that could carry out big infrastructure projects, even though it was poor, bringing electricity to homes, and through homes into modern standards of comfort.
We welcome papers addressing the theme of home in a specific or general way. The SAI Annual Conference is always a generalist conference and welcomes papers on any theme.
Quite abstract units of interdependence are conceptualised as home - such as home markets, home fronts, welfare states as the peoples’ home, and of course economy itself derives from oikos (household). Senses of home are complex - people can be at home in multiple locales and feel familiarity and strangeness with place simultaneously. We should also not be naive about home as a pure good, as it a place where some are trapped, isolated in, exploited in, and tyrannised in. It is a place to escape for many. It is also a place where others are made to feel unwelcome and are kept out from, as exercises in walling illustrate.
Irish society is experiencing a prolonged housing and homelessness crisis, acting as a case study of an ill of neoliberal society. A combination of connected dynamics, from the withdrawal of the state from social housing, historical deregulation of banking and finance, housing becoming a target for investment by individuals to global firms, a bias towards interventions on the demand rather than supply side by government, alongside insufficient supports to people at risk of homelessness, have produced this malaise. With emergency accommodation at over-capacity for nearly a decade, housing insecurity pervasive, and generations excluded from home ownership, home has become a focus of acute concern.
We should note that the conference takes place in a very particular place: Limerick and the Shannon region. Limerick gives us an exemplary piece of literature on the broken home in Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes, whose popularity is also linked with romantic longing for the homeland by a diaspora. Limerick and Clare have a notable place in community research, through the work of the Harvard Irish Mission. Today some of the best urban ethnographies of neighbourhood in Ireland have been conducted in Limerick - and particular neighbourhoods have become barometers of the success and failure of housing policy. Limerick artist Seán Keating captured the complexities of building a national home in his painting. The Treaty of Limerick 1691 has defined Irish history, as the distribution of land, its monopolisation and insecurity of tenure became its primary driver, shaping a broad Nationalist movement. The limits of who belonged and who the nation would be a home to was expressed however in the Limerick Boycott against the Jewish community in the early 20th Century. Ardnacrusha power station lies a little way up the Shannon. It represents a state that could carry out big infrastructure projects, even though it was poor, bringing electricity to homes, and through homes into modern standards of comfort.
We welcome papers addressing the theme of home in a specific or general way. The SAI Annual Conference is always a generalist conference and welcomes papers on any theme.
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Indicative Topics
HOME MAKING
HOME TERRITORY AND RIGHTS
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COLLECTIVE HOMES
HOUSING POLICY
DIFFERENT WAYS OF MAKING HOME
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THANKS TO ALL FOR A FASCINATING AND IMPACTFUL SAI ANNUAL CONFERENCE, ON THE 7TH & 8TH MAY
The SAI Annual Conference took place on May 7th and 8th. Thanks to all participants keynotes and helpers. The organising committee were delighted with the outcome after months of hard work. It is the presenters who make it work though, and we would like to heartily thank everyone who presented, and who submitted a paper (we were disappointed we could not accommodate many excellent papers). Preparations are already underway for SAI 2022, and we will be updating members shortly about that.
What else is going on?
As the new academic year rolls around, the SAI Committee are in the process of making plans for 2020-1. It is going to be an unusual and challenging year again, but we are determined to do what we can to maintain a vibrant sociological community of scholars and researchers. The past year has shown that the voice of sociology is more needed than ever. We have more ideas in the pipeline, but some things are for sure...
As the new academic year rolls around, the SAI Committee are in the process of making plans for 2020-1. It is going to be an unusual and challenging year again, but we are determined to do what we can to maintain a vibrant sociological community of scholars and researchers. The past year has shown that the voice of sociology is more needed than ever. We have more ideas in the pipeline, but some things are for sure...
- Queens University Belfast and Ulster University will be taking over the editorship of the Irish Journal of Sociology. This represents an exciting new era for the journal, following on from the excellent stewardship of UCD.
- There are seven SAI Study Groups, with more information about these under our 'Events' page. These cover a wide range of interests, and are an excellent way to develop your specialism and find a community.
- If you would like more information about any of the above, please get in touch at sociology.ie@gmail.com
Launch of the Young Sociologist of the Year Prize
Our big news for December is the launch of the Young Sociologist of the Year Prize. The SAI and School of Sociology in UCD are partnering in this. We want to help promote sociology in schools and to give recognition to the amazing work that students and teachers do in their Politics and Society, and Sociology classes. Please spread the word to any schools, teachers and students you think would be interested.
Our big news for December is the launch of the Young Sociologist of the Year Prize. The SAI and School of Sociology in UCD are partnering in this. We want to help promote sociology in schools and to give recognition to the amazing work that students and teachers do in their Politics and Society, and Sociology classes. Please spread the word to any schools, teachers and students you think would be interested.
A Message to Sociologists, Social Researchers and SAI Members
Sociology and social research in general plays a vital role in Irish society by producing the knowledge that gives us the opportunity to act wisely by giving us maps of the social, which we hope will lead to a better society, better politics, better thinking and better policies. The SAI, as the professional association of sociology in Ireland, is committed to supporting the discipline through fora for them to share ideas, collaborate and disseminate their research. Its strength is its members and their willingness to participate and support the discipline. The Committee give their time for free, and SAI members around the country and internationally build community and critical mass in research areas through their passion in forging networks, organising events, writing and research, editing and peer reviewing, and teaching. The strength and vibrancy of the discipline is based on the input of each member. We hope that you will consider pitching in through joining the SAI and participating in the wider community.
Sociology and social research in general plays a vital role in Irish society by producing the knowledge that gives us the opportunity to act wisely by giving us maps of the social, which we hope will lead to a better society, better politics, better thinking and better policies. The SAI, as the professional association of sociology in Ireland, is committed to supporting the discipline through fora for them to share ideas, collaborate and disseminate their research. Its strength is its members and their willingness to participate and support the discipline. The Committee give their time for free, and SAI members around the country and internationally build community and critical mass in research areas through their passion in forging networks, organising events, writing and research, editing and peer reviewing, and teaching. The strength and vibrancy of the discipline is based on the input of each member. We hope that you will consider pitching in through joining the SAI and participating in the wider community.
New Appointments to the SAI Executive for 2020
The SAI is delighted to announce the appointment of several new members of the SAI Executive Committee, bringing a nice injection of new energy. Recently, at the 2020 SAI AGM, Lisa Moran joined the committee in the role of Second-Level Sociology Officer, Ciara Bradley will be taking over as Treasurer, and Egle Gusciute is joining the Committee as an Ordinary Member. The SAI Committee and community at large would like to extend great thanks and warm wishes to the outgoing members of the committee - Ann Burke, Mark Doyle, Carmel Hannan, Kieran Keohane and Jill O'Mahony who gave tremendous service in their respective roles, and did enormous work to benefit the discipline in Ireland.
The SAI is delighted to announce the appointment of several new members of the SAI Executive Committee, bringing a nice injection of new energy. Recently, at the 2020 SAI AGM, Lisa Moran joined the committee in the role of Second-Level Sociology Officer, Ciara Bradley will be taking over as Treasurer, and Egle Gusciute is joining the Committee as an Ordinary Member. The SAI Committee and community at large would like to extend great thanks and warm wishes to the outgoing members of the committee - Ann Burke, Mark Doyle, Carmel Hannan, Kieran Keohane and Jill O'Mahony who gave tremendous service in their respective roles, and did enormous work to benefit the discipline in Ireland.
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