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EASA Conference 2008 Experiencing diversity and mutuality
Workshop (W039): "Violence Expressed"
Convenors
Nerina Weiss (University of Oslo)
Maria Six-Hohenbalken (Centre for Studies in Asian Cultures and Social
Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Short Abstract
This workshop will contribute to the study of violence by focusing on
narratives of violence and exploring and discussing different
ethnographic examples and analytical perspectives on 'violent expressions'.
Long Abstract
This workshop will contribute to the study of violence by focusing on
narratives of violence and discussing different ethnographic examples
and analytical perspectives on 'violent expressions'. Living in a
continuous state of violence, how do people publicly (re)construct,
redefine and remember traumatic events? What forms of narratives do they
use or refrain from using, what are the political motivations behind?
How can we decipher these narratives?
The workshop invites empirically driven as well as theoretically
informed papers which discuss the anthropological approaches to violence
(eg Das 2007; Whitehead (ed) 2004; Schmidt and Schröder 2003, Malkki
1995; Feldman 1991). Proposals may include narratives of individuals,
victims of domestic violence and state terror, structural and political
violence in recent and historical fields.
We are interested in community studies: how do post-war violence and
trauma inflict a society, how does a community deal with violence and
violent memories (community suffering, public acts of witnessing and
confessing, ritualisation and renarration)? How are violent actions of
one's own community and those of the enemy constructed and represented?
We also strongly encourage contributions that look at how perpetrators
express and comment on their own violent actions.
Contributions which address the following themes are especially welcome:
- Gendered violence and gendered differences in coping with violent
experiences and how they affect everyday life and 'folds itself into the
recesses of the ordinary' (Das 2007)
- Relation between violence, pain and language
- Violence and somaticised symptoms
- Researching in emotionally distressful fields - (in)sufficiency of
anthropological methods.
The call for papers will be open until March 31, 2008.
You can access this workshop directly :
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa08/panels.php5?PanelID=258
Papers should be proposed using the online form:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa08/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=258
Please forward this to anybody likely to be interested!
Any questions can be addressed to Nerina Weiss ([log in to unmask])
or Marianne Six-Hohenbalken ([log in to unmask])
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Nerina Weiss
Research Fellow
Department of Social Anthropology
University of Oslo
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