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> From: Ippolytos Kalofonos <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Ippolytos Kalofonos <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: AAA 2008 CFP: Biosociality Without Borders
>
> AAA 2008 CFP: Biosociality Without Borders: Citizenship and
> Subjectivity in a Contemporary World
>
> This panel critically examines contemporary biological modes of
> identity and belonging in a transnational frame. Recent
> transformations in politics, economics, biotechnology, and medicine
> have propelled complex and multiple reformulations in the ways in
> which we come to know ourselves and others. These shifts have led
> many to consider the accompanying changes in the relations between
> society and science. In the neoliberal era of the retracting
> social welfare state, classical forms of citizenship and
> subjectivity are increasingly fragmenting and rearticulating in
> distinct ways that vary by geography and temporality. Global
> scholarship has provided multiple examples of citizenship projects
> and biosociality. The way in which these formations take place,
> however, is strongly influenced by specific histories and political
> economic trajectories, and the implications for collective and
> subjective life vary accordingly. This panel hopes to explore how
> individuals and groups become implicated in the circulation of
> biomedical categories and the linking of those categories with
> public modes of being and belonging in diverse geographical and
> sociopolitical contexts. To what extent do these forms emerge
> "from below", that is, in response to local activism and demand,
> and to what extent are they "imposed" or "offered" as strategies of
> governance "from above"? What forms of social action are emerging
> around and reshaping contemporary forms of biosociality and
> biocitizenship?
>
> We seek ethnographically-based contributions dealing with diverse
> topics and geographical areas.
>
> Please email abstracts ASAP, and by March 14, to:
> Ippolytos Kalofonos: [log in to unmask]
> Thurka Sangaramoorthy: [log in to unmask] --
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>
>
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