CfP: Accepted Panel – IPrA (International Pragmatics Association) 2017 (16-21 July, Belfast) -Discourse, interaction, new families and contemporary kinship processes

Discourse, interaction, new families and contemporary kinship processes Organizers: David Poveda, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid – david.poveda@uam.es Lyn Wright Fogle, The University of Memphis – ewfogle@memphis.edu This panel explores the contributions that sociocultural linguistic approaches can make to current socio-anthropological research on emergent family forms and contemporary kinship processes. Various… Continue reading

Three strands of explanations on root causes of civil war in low-income and weak states in sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for education

Matsumoto, M. (2016). Three strands of explanations on root causes of civil war in low-income and weak states in sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for education. International Journal of Educational Development, 49, 1-10. This paper is a theoretical exploration of the relationship between schooling and the root causes of contemporary conflicts in… Continue reading

SI: Ethnographic Explorations of the Arts and Education

Special Issue Call for Ethnography and Education Journal (to be published in 2018) Guest Editors: Pat Thomson (The University of Nottingham), David Poveda (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) and Lígia Ferro (Universidade do Porto) This special issue brings together detailed ethnographic studies of social practice and action in a variety of social contexts where… Continue reading