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Dear all,
We would like to invite any interested colleagues to consider proposing a
paper for our panel in next year's *ASA conference *to be held in
* Edinburgh**(19-22 June 2014)*. The panel is titled *The place of 'place'
in wellbeing scholarship*.
Our panel will critically engage conventional and contrasting approaches
and understandings of wellbeing through the concept of place as an
empirical and ontological category:
*This panel presents a forum for the critical engagement of conventional
and contrasting approaches and understandings of wellbeing. We believe that
an ethnographic consideration of different approaches to wellbeing can help
us identify the bias, framed within grand Western ontological narratives
(especially the singularity of nature and the multiplicity of cultures),
that characterises the contemporary interdisciplinary scholarship on
wellbeing. This ontological position explains where the key features of
wellbeing scholarship come from, namely (a) its focus on subjective
wellbeing as a quality inherent to the individual; (b) the notorious
absence of considerations for collective and planetary wellbeing; and (c)
the minor attention granted to "place" in its analytical and empirical
sense, and thus "as a category of thought and as a constructed reality"
(Escobar 2001:140).*
*This panel will address the role of place as a category of analysis in the
scholarship on wellbeing. Even if anthropological studies have shown the
ethnographic variety of local models, they have failed to elevate these
place-based imaginaries to the language of social theory. We invite
participants to consider the primacy of place in wellbeing, as an empirical
and ontological category. From there, this panel will also explore whether
discussions of wellbeing are therefore nothing less than ontological
discussions of what it means to be human, and that different understandings
of "wellbeings" beget different modes of humanities. In doing so, we seek
to give these approaches to wellbeing the authority necessary to be taken
seriously as possible alternatives to universalising concepts of wellbeing.*
You can find more information and the links to submit a proposal here ->
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2014/panels.php5?PanelID=2742
Proposals must be submitted by the *5th of January 2014*. Any questions
please email me ([log in to unmask]) or Emilia Ferraro (
[log in to unmask]).
All the best,
Juan Pablo
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Dr Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti
Department of Social Anthropology
University of St Andrews
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/anthropology/dept/staff/?staffid=198
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