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CALL FOR PAPERS
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10th EASA *Biennial* Conference
Ljubljana, Slovenia
August 26-30, 2008
conveners:
Elisabeth Tauber (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich)
Almut Schneider (EHESS, Paris)
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Ethnographies of Adaptation and Code-switching
Modern Institutions in a Cross-cultural Perspective
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W081
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Short abstract:
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Ethnographic research in modern institutions as seen cross-culturally –
internally, externally, from in between, as "implementations". What modes of
adaptations or "code-switching" can be found? What is the anthropologist's
role between open-ended ethnographic description and "useful application"?
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Long abstract
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Ethnographic research centering on institutions and organisations plays an
increasingly significant role in our discipline, not only because more and
more anthropologists are working as consultants. Within this growing field,
the focus of the workshop will be on "modern" institutions (e.g. schools,
hospitals, prisons, army, employment centres, public service institutions,
etc.), and seeks ethnographic examples of situations, regardless of specific
regions (inside or outside Europe), where people are involved with modern
institutions *cross-culturally*. For example, people "inside" institutional
contexts dealing with different "outside" realities or people from "outside"
approaching institutions inherited from colonial/postcolonial
implementations.
What are the concrete and intended articulations of places, people and
specific forms of social relations and knowledge? Who is adapting how and to
whom or what? How do institutions and people react to these adaptations?
What other approaches are being attempted as in, for example – to borrow
from a linguistic concept – people code-switching when moving between the
inside and outside of institutions. How are internal, institutionalized
discourses perceived in contexts of cultural diversity?
Finally, one might ask what the role of anthropologists is here? Where does
an open-ended ethnographic description (model) end and where does a specific
"useful" application as 'expert knowledge', with clearly targeted outputs
start? How can anthropologists react to the practical needs and interests of
an institution? Does the increasing need for collaboration (mutuality) that
anthropologists identify cause dilemmas similar to those encountered in
recent debates on audit and accountability?
The call for papers will be open until March 31, 2008.
Papers should be proposed using the online form (see *
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa08/panels.php5www.easa2008.eu*<http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa08/panels.php5www.easa2008.eu>).
You can access this workshop directly : *
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa08/panels.php5?PanelID=316*<http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa08/panels.php5?PanelID=316>
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Please forward this to anybody likely to be interested!
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Any questions can be addressed to Elisabeth Tauber
(*[log in to unmask]*<[log in to unmask]>)
or Almut Schneider (*[log in to unmask]* <[log in to unmask]>).
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