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Dear All,
Apologies for cross-posting.
I would like to invite you to join us at an EASA 2012 panel on Work and
Consumption: Insurmountable links in uncertain times (panel abstract
bellow).
I would also very much appreciate if you could circulate this
information among other colleagues who might be interested.
The call for papers is now open and it will close on November 28th. The
EASA 2012 Conference will take place next July at Nanterre University,
Paris.
If you whish to submitt an abstract, please follow this link:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2012/panels.php5?PanelID=1256
All the best,
margarida
..................... Call for Papers ..................
Work and consumption: insurmountable links in uncertain times (EN) (FR)
Convenors
Emília Margarida Marques (CRIA - Centre for Research in Anthropology /
Lisbon University Institute)
Fernando Bessa Ribeiro (Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro)
Marta Rosales (New University of Lisbon & CRIA)
*Short Abstract*
**
We call for empirically rooted and theoretically backed contributions
that tackle the practical and moral economies of work, consumption and
their multifaceted symbolic and practical mutual links, which tightness
and necessity our current times of uncertainty and disquiet are so
boldly unveiling.
Long Abstract
The assertion that consumption has replaced work as a preferred identity
arena is an influential one in contemporary social theory. In our
westen-type societies, the rather necessity-bound, monotonous work-based
politics of belonging would have loose appeal against the exercises of
individual choice and appropriation that are promised by consumption,
and that would be quintessential to the contemporary subject's reflexive
self-building. Thus work was left within the realms of economy driven
alienation, while consumption was rescued to freer domains of
expressivity, creativity and culture.
Yet the twin ideas of work as an identity-deserted, instrumental chore
and of work and consumption as two fundamentally separated fields of
practice and meaning have received no remarkable empirical support.
Ethnographies of work and workers depict instead people's diverse and
creative efforts to obtain from their work a sense of dignity and
ownership. And current times of uncertainty have prompted an increased
awareness of how tight and insurmountable the links stand between waged
work and expressive consumption.
This panel calls for contributions that tackle the practical and moral
economies of work and consumption. For instance (but by no means
exclusively), how is the symbolic and material value drawn from work
translated into or displayed through consumption? What connections are
(or are not) established between value of work and entitlement to
consume? How are any discrepancies between entitlement and actual access
evaluated and dealt with, practically as well as symbolically? How do
people navigate expressive consumption amidst the uncertainty and
disquiet they experience as workers?
--
Emília Margarida Marques
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
CRIA - Centre for Research in Anthropology | IUL - Lisbon University Institute
Portugal
www.cria.org.pt
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