Potenitally interesting for list members with a more anthropological
approach to surveillance research...
David.
Please forward to interested parties ASAP. Deadline for abstract
submission is THIS WEEK.
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Call For Papers
AAA conference in Washington, DC. Nov. 28-December 2, 2007.
Panel Title: Documents as Subjects and Subjects of Documents
Organizers: Kregg Hetherington (UC Davis) and Leticia Barrera (Cornell)
Anthropology's recent interest in the social lives of documents has
generated fascinating analyses of the ways that documents created by
state agencies, corporations and other organizational bodies format
communication and knowledge practices. In the works of Annelise Riles,
Don Brenneis and Richard Harper, Barbara Ingvesson and Susan Bibler
Coutin, and Marie-Andree Jacob, among others, some documents elicit
auditable practices, while others produce political aesthetics, and
still others constrain or conceal the indexical play of language. In
all these cases, attention is drawn to the excess that documents never
contain: the ways they are mimicked and subverted, misinterpreted and
misrecognized, and the uncontainable surprises of their form and
materiality.
Our panel will bring together scholars working on the anthropology of
documents to talk about the role of documents as subject-making
practices. While the role of written documents has long been seen as
vital to the production of modern political structures and
bureaucracies, only recently has the circulation of such documents been
understood as critical to the formation of public and private spheres
of political sociality. Subjects can be called into being by documents,
as with racial categories on census forms, kinship categories in
transplant medicine paperwork, but they can also develop organically
through the circulation of documentary forms, as with citizenship and
migration records.
We are interested in bringing into focus the power of legal constructs
in the formation of new political subjectivities, and we are looking
for papers which deal with these questions ethnographically.
Please submit abstracts to Kregg Hetherington ([log in to unmask]) or
Leticia Barrera ([log in to unmask]) no later than Wednesday, March 28rd
at 12PM EST.
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