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> From: "Koch, Erin" <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: "Koch, Erin" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: AAA CFP
> Call for papers: Geographies of Health and Affliction
>
> Organizers: Barbara Ley (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
> Erin Koch (University of Kentucky)
>
> We seek participants for a panel that examines relationships
> between health, affliction, and space broadly conceived. Scholars
> in anthropology, sociology, science and technology studies, and
> related fields examine compelling questions about spatial
> determinants of well-being and cultural/structural obstacles to
> health. Much of this research has argued that health is best
> promoted and potentially achieved in the context of safe, secure,
> and healthy spaces and environments. At a deeper level lies the
> question of how conceptions of health and illness reflect and
> refract particular constructions of space and vice versa. With this
> panel we aim to expand ethnographic analyses that engage
> spatialities of wellness and illness, including contested
> understandings of what it means to be "healthy". We invite
> ethnographic approaches that examine how relations between space,
> health and affliction are experienced, articulated, and negotiated
> in bodies, communities, institutions, and symbolic and discursive
> arenas.
>
> Potential zones where wellness and affliction perpetuate might
> include, but are not limited to, embodiment and the physical body,
> emotional/mental health, spiritual well being, public health, and
> environmental health. Central questions might include the
> following: How do spatial orders and domains (be they
> environmental, bodily, built, natural, or virtual) hinder and/or
> promote well-being for individuals and communities? How are lived
> experiences and representations of healthy or unhealthy spaces co-
> constructed and mutually constitutive? How do political,
> governmental, scientific and biomedical institutions shape forms of
> expertise and what counts as "expert knowledge"? about geographies
> of health and affliction? How are inequities of healthiness
> naturalized, legitimated, and mapped onto bodies, territories, and
> social spaces?
>
> We hope to engage particular theoretical and methodological
> contributions that anthropology can make to this growing field of
> research. Please send inquiries and paper abstracts to Barbara Ley
> ([log in to unmask]) by March 15th. We will respond the following week.
>
>
>
>
> Erin Koch
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Anthropology
> University of Kentucky
> [log in to unmask]
> (859)-257-7312 phone
> (859) 323-1959 fax
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