Dear all,
somebody of you might be interested in this call for papers. I would be very
happy to have in this panel strong presence of social movement topics. Thats
why I send it here.
You can find information about whole conference here:
http://www.casaonline.cz/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/CfP_CASA-SASA_2011.pdf
We would be happy, if you could resend this cfp to your colleagues and
students who might participate.
Thank you very much,
Bob Kurik
CALL FOR PAPERS
*Situating Imagination in Globalization: Between Hegemonic Tool and Source
of Resistance** *
Chair: Prof. Jonathan Friedman (EHESS, Paris and UCLA in San Diego)
Panel proposition for 2nd biennial CASA/SASA conference *Of Cosmopolitanism
and Cosmologies, *to be held in Telč, Czech Republic, 2-3 September 2011.
Globalization entails macro-structural processes such as the decline of
exclusive centrality of the West followed by new "softer" and mostly
non-coercive forms of global Western hegemony leading to even larger social
inequality and polarization of wealth among people and among countries. We
understand *the World as unequally structured space* where it is needed to
see the global connectivity and mobility as highly stratified processes.
There is a great, yet not fully extracted potential in social anthropology
to reveal these worldwide processes ethnographically, or to put it in
Burawoyian words, to study people in their time and space and by doing so to
get an insight into the lived experience of globalization. We think that the
unevenly stratified and historically accumulative process of globalization
is ethnographically accessible through lives of people when two interrelated
levels of analytical work are taken in consideration. First, one can trace
the lives of people through the effects of global processes and
constellations of contemporary geopolitical and economical relations
characterized as a *set of possibilities* for action. Second, we think it is
possible to trace global processes on the internal level, that is, in a *set
of dispositions* and mental and corporeal schemata which reveal variable
modes of hegemony, domination and resistance in the everyday lives of
people.
We decided to narrow down the panel theme on studies of imagination as the
locus of unequal power relations. In times of globalization, the fabrication
of people's imagination and the production and incorporation of what is
imaginable has become indispensable part of new hegemonic processes and
techniques of domination. But at the same time, imagination remains
creative, constituent and yet fully uncontrollable sphere of people's agenda
where new seeds of resistance can always grow up. Because of this ambivalent
position of being tool of domination and source of resistance at once, it is
eligible to focus with analytical lenses mentioned above on *situating
imagination* within global unequal power relations and to study it
ethnographically from grassroots as well as from top-down perspective.
We welcome papers on topics such as:
- Disciplining through imagination from above: political struggles
over people's collective imagination
- Commoditization and industries of imagination: techniques and
institutions of "forging the imaginable"
- Manufacturing imagination through systems of education and/or
development projects
- Beyond the imaginable: imaginations from below, social movements,
collective action, mobilizations and unmaking sense of neoliberal capitalism
- Being on and dreaming about the move: life possibilities and
trajectories
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Deadline for abstracts in English of no more than 300 words:* July 8, 2011.*
You will be notified about acceptance of you paper proposals by *July 22,
2011*.
Deadline for papers:* August 30, 2011*
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For further information about fee, venue and other organizational points,
please check out conference web page (
http://www.casaonline.cz/konference)
or read email attachment.
Contact:
Email: bobkurik@???, t.ryska@???
Phone: +420 728 659 500 or +420 775 273 047.
Bob Kurik and Tomas Ryska
PhD Candidates
Department of Anthropology
Faculty of Humanities
Charles University in Prague
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*Dr Adriano Cirulli*
*PhD, Sociology of Culture and Political Processes*
*Tutor UTIU: Sociologia e Antropologia Culturale*
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*a.cirulli@???*
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*Main research interests: Ethnonationalism; Basque Studies; Cultural
Resistance Movements; Political Violence*
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