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Dear Colleagues,
we are pleased to announce the call for papers for our workshop at the 2012 EASA conference in Paris, Nanterre:
12th EASA
Biennial Conference
Nanterre, France 10-13th July
2012
Call for Papers
Caribbean Anxieties
Religion,
Sexuality, Nationalism
Workshop Convenors
Dr. Eric Anton Heuser
(Freie Universitaet Berlin)
Professor Roberto
Strongman, PhD (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Workshop Abstract
Religion
and sexuality are often discussed as separate and diametrically opposed poles
disciplining the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’ citizen in national discourses. Popular and postcolonial religious and sexual
categories of being and modes of social practices challenge the anxieties
produced by the imposition and enforcement of these national narratives. What
is the location of anxiety in the continuum of the appropriate and the
dissident Caribbean subject? How do the various state apparatuses seek to
resolve and even prolong these anxious states? Do Caribbean people respond and
possibly subvert those structures to become active agents in the processes of
their own subjectification? What are the implications of representing the
Caribbean as world asylum and ‘carnival of emotions’ in relation to the
‘rationality’ of the nation?
Possible
topics could include:
· Non-heteronormative
sexualities
· Creole
religions of the Caribbean
· The
un/making of subjectivities
· Madness,
anxiety, disquieted emotions
The
workshop invites presentations covering religion and sexuality in the context
of the Caribbean societies. We envision a panel made up of scholars from a
variety of disciplines working on Caribbean societies employing distinct ethnographic
approaches.
Proposing a paper
To read the abstract online and/or to propose a
paper, please go to
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2012/panels.php5?PanelID=1195
Proposals must be submitted online via the EASA link as shown. Scroll down to the end of the
page and click on “Propose a paper” to contact the convenors.
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