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Dear List-members,
We would like to remind you that the deadline for this CFP is approaching.
*Call for Papers*
*International Workshop: ECONOMY, MORALITY AND MATERIALITY*
*Date*: 26 – 27 September 2013
*Venue*: University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
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Long-held convictions about the immoral or amoral nature of capitalism have
recently lost some of their force in light of illustrations of how moral
conflicts unfold in the economic realm and examples of how religious and
non-religious morality works its ways in the capitalist economy.
Subsequently, the articulation of economy and morality has returned as a
topic of interest in the academia. Depictions of how moral meanings are
implicated in economic choices have been added to descriptions of the
individualistic, economistic, immoral and amoral behaviours fostered by
capitalism in societies all over the world. In addition, the mutual
entanglement of capital, Islam and the market has become an active
sub-field of enquiry in response to recent transformations. While
capitalism and Islam have long intersected in Muslim societies across time
and space, in the last decades their articulation has intensified under the
impact of the concomitant spread of Islamic revivalist movements and
neoliberal capitalism.
This workshop seeks to explore how our understanding of the articulation of
economy and morality improves if we also take materiality into
consideration. More specifically, this workshop aims to investigate the
role pious things play in shaping both neoliberal capitalism and
experiences and imaginations of piety.
Confirmed keynote speaker: *Professor* *Birgit Meyer *(University of
Utrecht)
We invite theoretically and ethnographically informed contributions that
focus on things produced by and/or for pious individuals, things framed as
religious, things that help in the executions of ritual practices and
duties and in the expression of religious identities, things of everyday
life as well as of special occasions, things that might express the
religiosity and morality of their consumers, but not necessarily that of
their producers.
We invite our contributors to reflect on the potential such things have to
illuminate the entanglement of economy, morality and materiality, to
illustrate the tensions and oppositions between piety and commodification,
to elucidate ways in which various actors bring together or not, or image
others as bringing together or not, religious ethics and moral
responsibilities and the imperatives of neoliberal capitalism.
Questions we hope to address:
What kind of relationships do people, especially the religiously committed
people, have with such objects?
What kind of economic actors do people, especially the religiously
committed people, relate to such objects?
What kind of ethics and practices do people, especially the religiously
committed people, relate to such objects?
What do people, especially the religiously committed people, consider
economically moral/religiously acceptable?
Please submit a 250-word abstract and a short biographical note (including
name, affiliation, e-mail) to the organisers at
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2013.
The authors of the accepted abstracts will be notified by 19 April 2013.
Convenors:
Lale Yalçın-Heckmann, Tomáš Ryška
Department of Social Anthropology
University of Pardubice
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