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Dear Colleagues,
we are writing to remind you of our workshop (W029) titled: Violence and
Resilience in South-Eastern Europe that we are conventing at the EASA 2012
conference. We invite all interested scholars in the topic to submit their
paper proposal via online form on the EASA website by November 28, 2011.
With best wishes,
Hanna Kienzler (McGill University) [log in to unmask]
Enkelejda Sula-Raxhimi (University of Montréal) [log in to unmask]
Workshop abstract
In South-Eastern Europe, political and structural violence go beyond death,
disease, trauma and anxiety, to include the pervasive effects of the
destruction of the economic, political and social fabric of society. This
workshop invites papers that explore the consequences of such violence by
tracing them in individual biographies, life trajectories, collective
memory and communal strategies for coping with and being resilient to
violence, adversity and uncertainty. In particular, the papers should
describe and analyse the situated, manifold and complex interconnections
between violence, larger social forces and individual suffering and ways in
which they affect individual and collective perceptions of reality,
identity and expectations for the future.
Expanding on the work of other anthropologists who have tried to make sense
of different forms of violence, we argue that violence is pervasive,
ancient, infinitely various and a central fact of human life, but also
poorly understood in general. At the same time and despite these
"conceptual uncertainties", it is, among other things, "a cultural problem"
which requires attention to the details of its meanings and enactments by
social actors in particular contexts. Adopting Sherry Ortner's notion of
"serious games", the workshop emphasizes the social aspects of violence
through different case studies by arguing that it is shaped, maintained and
appeased through the expression of personal and subjective experiences in
connection with larger social actors such as the state, international
organizations, transnational flows of finances, and the global media.
Proposal submission:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2012/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=1285
Call for papers:
http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2012/callforpapers.htm
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