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*CFP: "The Other" and the de-fetishization of the state*
Call for papers for the 12th EASA conference in Nanterre (10 -13 July
2012). Deadline for Paper Proposals is 28 November. Propose your paper here:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2012/panels.php5?PanelID=1284*
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Convenors
Carlo Cubero (Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University)
Klavs Sedlenieks (Riga Stradins University)
Polina TÅ¡erkassova (Tallinn University, Estonian Institute of Humanities)
Short Abstract
This panel will discuss the contentions and compromises that characterise
the relationship between individuals and the state, which lead to its
de-fetishisation. We encourage contributors to examine how terms like
managing diversity, social cohesion or integration are active fields of
power.
Long Abstract
This workshop seeks papers that interrogate the different contentions and
compromises that characterise the complex relationship between individuals
and the state, which lead to de-fetishisation of the state. We are
interested in papers that critique the notion of the state as an entity
that secures its continuity and indisputability by infusing its power into
each individual. We encourage contributors to examine different ways that
anthropologists can understand the significance of state policies on
homogenisation, such as social cohesion and integration policies. We are
particularly interested in ethnographies that explore how individuals and
social groups that are deemed as 'insufficiently integrated' or 'not
educated enough' or 'underdeveloped' by the state consciously or
semi-consciously employ various strategies that challenge and/or reproduce
the homogenising policy of the state. We are also interested in
ethnographies of the state that examine the complex ways in which policy
makers contend and conform with an imagined ideal state in ways that
contribute and undermine the state legitimisation and state-building
project.
For example, we will discuss to what degree are terms like local and
foreign, managing diversity, aliens, social cohesion, or integration are
not only one-way developments but active fields where power is gained and
lost, legitimised and de-legitimised. When does the lack of 'integration'
becomes a 'problem' and when it can become a particular source of power
leverage for those the state wants to 'domesticate'? When do action and
non-action become equally powerful strategies?
Regards,
Carlo A. Cubero, PhD
Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology
Estonian Institute of Humanities
5 Uus Sadama #305
Tallinn, Estonia 10120
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