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Seeking additional participants for AAA 2008 Panel // Privates & Counterprivates

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We wish to add a few participants to the panel described below.  If  
the topic is of interest, please email me ASAP at [log in to unmask]
Many thanks!

**Privates and Counterprivates**
Proposed panel for AAA 2008, submitting to Society for Cultural  
Anthropology

Organizers:
Gretchen Pfeil (Univ of Chicago)
Thomas Strong (University of Helsinki)

The world today appears to be inhabited and animated by more and more  
new kinds of mediated association -- "publics" -- whether virtual,  
scientific, financial, religious, or retail.  Anthropologists have  
rushed into these spaces with descriptive and analytic gusto yielding  
manifold accounts of emerging "worlds," where people associate in new  
and ever more visible and audible ways, "publics" ever more public  
than before. Anthropological attention has focused especially on kinds  
of association in which complementary forms of technological and  
social innovation challenge conventional theoretical wisdom (about the  
secular, the public, and the modern, to name a few).  These new  
theorizations of different publics, the public sphere, and the nature  
of publicity lead us to ask, what's happening in private?  What is  
'the private'? Do new understandings of publics and publicity demand a  
rethinking of the realm of the private, the domestic, the discreet,  
the secret? Does the persistent expansion of the public (or the  
multiplication of publics and resistant counterpublics) and the  
visible (from transnational YouTube networks to urban fishbowl condos  
with floor-to-ceiling glass walls) elicit complementary forms of  
discretion, coding, and concealment?  How might we theoretically  
distinguish some forms of sociality and group-belonging which exist in  
private? We thus seek to examine social relations constituted not in  
broadcast appeals to public recognition, but through a restriction of  
access or through explicitly bounded practices of circulation (of  
knowledge, communication, or goods). Contemporary anthropological  
accounts of the public require us to rethink the private. In this  
panel we  suggest that a new theorization of the private might see it  
as something more than the negative image of the public, as more than  
what is left in the shrinking shadows of the illumination of ever  
expanding publics.  Has ethnographic enthusiasm for documenting new  
publics itself concealed a teleological bias, in which the ‘social’ is  
equated with the ‘public’?  These papers challenge the assumption that  
the point of contemporary creativity in social life is always another  
public, imagined perhaps as resistive or ‘counter.’  We attend to  
relations in private or to relations whose impetus lies not in  
reflexively open mediation but in restrictive coding and discretion.   
How do certain forms of sociality depend upon the limit and  
restriction of the circulation of knowledge? How do such social forms  
challenge existing models of "publics" and "the private"?


Papers:

Megan Clark (University of Chicago) // Privates in Turkish, Intimates  
in Kurdish: Obscenity at the Bilingual Margins of the Kurdish Movement  
in Turkey.

Erin Debenport (University of Chicago) //  Private Notice: Negotiating  
Secrecy in the Public Use of a Pueblo Language

Paul Manning (Trent U) // Your girlfriend is your ‘sworn brother’:  
Public idioms for intimate relationships in mountain Georgia.

Lilith Mahmud (Harvard / UC Irvine) // TBA

Sasha Newell (University of Illinois) // Performative Privates and the  
Public Secret of Success: Bluffing Your Way to the Top in Abidjan's  
Underbelly

Sarah Pinto (Tufts University) //  On Dissolution: Interiority at the  
Intersection of Marriage and Mental Illness in India

Gretchen Pfeil (Univ of Chicago) // Two Nudie Dances and a (Gay)  
Wedding: Kinship, Circulation, and Moral Outrage in Dakar

Thomas Strong (Univ of Helsinki) // Infection as a Social Relation:   
'Serosorting' in San Francisco

Discussant(s):

James Boon (Princeton)


Thomas Strong, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Researcher
The CoE in Global Governance Research
P.O. Box 4 (Yliopistonkatu 3)
00014 University of Helsinki




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