Conf/CfP - Terrorism, Migrations, Refugees. Contemporary Challenges to Cultural Heritage and Identities, Economy, Tourism and Media, 17-19 January 2016, Macedonia

Terrorism is considered to be one of the greatest problems of the modern society. It is an obstacle on the way to development of the world as a global society. It became an occurrence, concept, thought and term which has entered the everyday life of the contemporary human been. Simultaneously with human progress in the technical, material and cultural respect, terrorism is also developing, only at a faster pace. Terrorism is constantly changing in its forms, contents, types and shapes of organizing, ways of activity and technical implementation. A question is posed (justified and with fear): have we entered the era of terrorism?!

Besides the terrorism, our modern society has to respond to new challenges of extensive migration processes. We are living in a "era of migrations". According to Stephen Castles and Mark J. Miller the rise of international migration is one of the most important phenomena of the latter 20th and early 21st century. During the last five decades, the amount of international migration has grown enormously, from 82 million in 1975 to 175 million in the year 2000 and 232 million in 2013, which represents 3 % of the world’s population. In recent years, migratory movements have become an issue which has been studied by diverse scholarly disciplines and approaches. While macro approaches focus on the stream of population, political and economic restrictions and possibilities of influence over migrations, humanities and social scientists direct the attention to the micro- and mezzo-level of analysis, where the family and household are among the main units of analysis.

Military conflicts, political, environmental and socio-economic crisis in Middle East, North Africa and Europe facilitated “refugee tsunami” in these regions. The issues of security, provision of material needs and psychological support for refugees have become the priorities in contemporary agendas.. Refugee identities are complex and formed not only by internal feelings, beliefs, ethnic and cultural traditions, but also by external factors, such as resettlement practices, forced migrant policies, cultural traditions and the economic, political and social conditions of their new host country. As a result of displacement refugees undergo a complicated process of identity reformulation.

Terrorism, migration and refugee flows are contemporary challenges in all part of our life. Researching, analyzing and exchanging of knowledge among the scholars and experts about the influence of these challenges on the identities, cultural heritage, economic development, tourism and media, particularly, interdisciplinary or holistically is very urgent task. Bearing in mind that a lot cultural heritage monuments and cities are destroyed, some of cultural, religious, ethnic and other identities are bases for undertaking violation and terrorist acts, the role of media are extremely important on spreading the xenophobia or tolerance, meetings of scholars and experts in this period for discussing and exchanging of knowledge is with high priority. Under such circumstances, economic development and tourism should be considered and analyzed from the perspective of abovementioned contemporary challenges.

TOPICS OF INTERESTS

We invite scholars, PhD and MA students, researchers and practitioners in anthropology/ethnology, political science, economy, tourism sciences, media, archaeology, history, art, history of art, philology, literature, folklore, ethnomusicology, architecture, museology, archiving, audio-visual arts, information sciences/ technologies, geography, sociology, psychology and all related fields to submit papers on any topic related to conference theme. Papers may reflect on a wide spectrum of issues related to cultural heritage, economy, tourism, media, cultural identities, terrorism, migration, refugees etc.

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