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*We are inviting papers for the panel "Modern Institutions in a
Cross-cultural Perspective" (EASA conference, Ljubljana, August 26th - 29th
2008). **We want to discuss examples of the different ways people and
institutions e.g. hospitals, schools, churches, prisons, NGO's, etc.
conceptualise "cross-cultural" situations. **This could be the question how
institutions take into account different cultural backgrounds of people
approaching them, or, how do people deal with institutions stemming from a
cultural background different from theirs? We invite ethnographically
grounded papers that consider the conference theme "Experiencing diversity
and mutuality" from the point of view of contemporary institutions. *
*Note* : it is not obligatory for paper presenters to be members of EASA.
Paper submissions close on March 31st 2008. You can submit a proposal for a
paper via the EASA website (panel WO81).
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa08/panels.php5?PanelID=316
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*Abstract : *
*Modern Institutions in a 'Cross-cultural' Perspective - Ethnographies of
Adaptation and Code-switching*
Ethnographic research in modern institutions as seen 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"?
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 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?
*conveners: *
Elisabeth TAUBER (Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich)
[log in to unmask] Almut SCHNEIDER (EHESS, Paris)
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