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Subject: [CASCA] Call For Papers CASCA May 8-10, 2008 at Carleton University, Ottawa
Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) Annual Meetings
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
May 8-10, 2008
Late call for papers!
Ethnography and the Problem of Place in Global Modernity
A key human outcome of modernity has been disengagement- from community, from place, from resources, from control over the means of production, from the supernatural- in order to be 're-rooted' in the operation of market economies and liberal democratic institutions (Bauman, 2001). The twinned process uprooting /re-rooting is even more evidently the shift created by modernity as capitalist economic practices re-tool to function as a 'global economy'. But how complete is this uprooting? How
thoroughly are people re-rooted in their identities as modernized citizens? This proposal calls for contributions that consider the persistent use of 'place' to ground 'meaning', 'identity', 'culture' and
'autonomy' even as such links are disrupted by the operation of global modernity and global scale capitalism. Are place-based politics anachronistic? Are localizing projects legitimate only as they can
achieve global influence? Are place-based community-making projects defenses against global scale capitalism, or is every place productive of a new expression of global modernity? Are the tools of ethnography especially relevant to exploring these issues?
Please submit proposals to Wendy Russell [log in to unmask] by March 5, 2008.
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