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Dear all
There are 115 workshops at EASA. Perhaps it would be better if people
didn't advertise each one individually.
Simone
On 11 Dec 2009, at 12:34, Fox, Katy wrote:
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> FYI
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> EASA Meeting (European Association of Social Anthropologists)
> 2010: Crisis and imagination, Maynooth, Ireland, 24/08/2010 –
> 27/08/2010
>
> Workshop W019
>
> Crisis, environmental anthropology, and the garden: local
> resilience, sustainable living and alternative food production
>
> Convenors
>
> Katy Fox (Aberdeen University) [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]
> >
> James Veteto (University of Georgia) [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]
> >
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>
> Short Abstract
>
> In the current global context of environmental and food crisis, this
> panel puts forward solution-focused and practice-oriented
> ethnographic research undertaken in contexts where ongoing
> alternatives to unsustainable living, business-as-usual
> agribusiness, and food production were examined.
>
> Long Abstract
>
> Providing a platform for researchers working in the areas of
> bioregionalism and permaculture principles of living, we want to
> investigate grassroots practices that explicitly go against the
> mainstream. We are interested in exploring both their imaginative
> potential as well as problematic or contradictory aspects.
> Permaculture is a global grassroots development philosophy and
> sustainability movement that encompasses a set of ethical principles
> and design guidelines/techniques for creating sustainable, permanent
> culture and agriculture. Bioregionalism proposes that economic
> activities should be constrained by ecological boundaries rather
> than arbitrary political divisions. It proposes a re-grounding of
> culture and community within particular watersheds and biotic
> communities. We do not limit our areas of interest to ecovillages
> that often explicitly incorporate principles of bioregionalism and
> permaculture, but encourage comparison with peasant livelihoods and
> sites of alternative food production as traditional applications of
> ecological principles in practice. How do these grassroots and
> movements and practices differ from dominant practices in how
> autonomy, growth, control, possibility, hope and crisis are re-
> imagined and practised?
>
> Finally, we want to investigate the consequences of practice-
> oriented research for an environmental epistemology in anthropology.
> What is the potential of an anthropological public engagement with
> these grassroots movements? How can we expand our knowledge on
> sustainability in ways that complement and enable us to extend our
> traditional areas of theoretical and practical expertise? What are
> the consequences of real engagement with practice-oriented research
> for anthropology in theory, practice and dissemination?
>
> Submit your paper here:
> http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2010/panels.php5?PanelID=596
> CfP opens 15th December 2009 and ends 1st March 2010
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