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Dear all,
Apologies for cross posting. Please circulate this amongst anyone who maybe interested.
Many thanks
Joost
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From: MAJOR Laura <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Date: 20 December 2013 08:57:36 GMT
Subject: Call for Papers ASAUK 14: (Re)Materializing Dystopia/utopia in Contemporary Rwanda
Call for Papers: (Re)Materializing Dystopia/Utopia in Contemporary Rwanda – ASAUK 2014 Biennial Conference, September 9-11th, University of Sussex (UK)
Dear all,
I'd like to draw your attention to this call for papers for a panel that will take place at the ASAUK 2014 Biennial Conference in September 2014. Full details below including abstract submission instructions. I'd be delighted if you would consider submitting a paper abstract. Full details for the Critical African Studies panel stream 'African Utopias/Dystopias' also attached to this email. Please circulate widely.
Best wishes,
Laura
Laura Major
PhD Candidate, Social Anthropology
University of Edinburgh
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Panel: (Re)Materializing dystopia/utopia in contemporary Rwanda
2014 will mark twenty years of ‘remembering’ the Rwandan Genocide. In the historical narratives of the Rwandan government, the international community, and scholarly literature, the Genocide has often been cast as the spilling into reality of an ultimate dystopian nightmare. In those twenty years of reflection, the issue of what is ‘truth’ and what is ‘fiction’ in the historiography of Rwandan pasts has merged with broader debates around the nature of memory and its re-imaginations. Concurrently, these visualisations of the ultimate societal disorder have fed an unavoidable birthing of dystopia’s surreal alter-ego, by provoking the re-imagination and re-forging of Rwanda as the ultimate utopian state. Bodies and bodily materials inevitably inhabit these spaces of the imagined and the real, past and present. The memorialised corpses of Genocide victims, the living, breathing bodies of genocide ‘survivors’, and the broadly defined ‘other’ or genocide perpetrator are called upon to populate Rwanda’s dystopian pasts. At the same time, visions of Rwanda’s utopian futures also play out in bodily ways; for example in the on-going envisioning of the idealised ‘de-ethnicised’ and ‘modern’ Rwandan citizen, which brings particular bodies into being and determines the absence or illegitimacy of others.
This panel engages with the implicit and yet under-theorised population of Rwanda’s dystopian pasts, and reforged futures through the materialities of Rwandan bodies. Drawing upon current debates in the academic study of materials and materialities, papers will examine the role of bodies and bodily substances in generating and contesting Rwanda’s dystopian pasts and utopian futures.
Contact: Laura Major
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Full submission guidelines and online submission instructions for paper abstracts can be found here:
http://www.asauk.net/conferences/asauk14.shtml#streams
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