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*Hello all,*
*Here is one more CFP for IUAES. The deadline is soon!*
*CFP:*
*Bounded fieldsites, mobile concepts, flexible anthropologists (IUAES 2014)*
This panel considers the future of regional specialisation in the light of
the current situation in the academic job market. How can we reflect on the
increasingly globalised world we study, sustain the rigour of extend
fieldwork, while dealing with the neoliberal regimes governing academia?
*Long Abstract*
This panel considers the future of regional specialisation and bounded
fieldsites in anthropology in the light of the current state of affairs in
the academic job market. The question of what happens to anthropological
locations which are becoming flux and increasingly difficult to define
becomes central to current debates. The answers are often equivocal: some
researchers continue to insist on area studies, and regional
specializations, while others define their field in terms of abstract and
mobile concepts permeating different locations.
Along these developments we are challenged with neoliberal regimes in
academic institutions: higher education funding cuts, an emphasis on
"accountability" and "applicability" of the knowledge we produce, as well
increasingly precarious academic job conditions whereby anthropologists
find themselves moving frequently between institutions and taking up career
opportunities in locations they might not have anticipated. This involves
adapting to new fieldistes and new fields of study, often beyond academic
circles.
What all these developments and answers to them bear is enforced "mobility"
and "flexibility" either because of institutional arrangements or because
of our field, making rigor of thick description and dense ethnography
difficult to implement.
In this panel we would like to explore the twofold challenges facing our
discipline and the twofold positionality: as researchers and as employees.
How do we cope both with the employment instability as well as field
complexity? The panel would be particularly interested in the narratives of
anthropologists who have broken with the tradition of specialisation in one
particular region and how they manage this.
*This panel is part of the IUAES Inter-Congress 2014*
The panel will take place* from 15th to 18th May 2014, *in *Chiba City in
Greater Tokyo*.
The *deadline* for submitting papers is *09 Jan 2014*.
To submit your paper proposal please go to:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/iuaes/iuaes2014/panels.php5?PanelID=2921
*Convenors*
Ela Drazkiewicz (NUI Maynooth) [log in to unmask]
Megha Amrith (Centro de Estudos da Metropole) [log in to unmask]
Pawel Lewicki (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) [log in to unmask]
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Elżbieta Drążkiewicz, PhD
Affiliated Scholar,
Social Anthropology
University of Cambridge
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