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Dear all,
We invite paper proposals for the panel *The Place of ‘Place’ in Wellbeing
Scholarship *to be held at the ASA's meeting in June. Paper proposals
should be submitted at
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2014/panels.php5?PanelID=2742 by January
5th 2014 (Sunday).
*Panel Abstract *
This panel presents a forum for the critical engagement with conventional
and contrasting approaches and understandings of wellbeing. Our panel aims
to 1. contribute to the emerging scholarship that calls for more complex
and culturally nuanced considerations of “the everyday business of living
in the world” (Whatmore 1999:30); 2. takes seriously indigenous complex
understandings of the world and how to live in it; 3. responds to recent
calls for “place-based” understandings of wellbeing; and 4. shows the
methodological contributions of rigorous ethnography to wellbeing
scholarship. Non-ethnographic papers are welcome if in line with the
panel’s aims.
Are discussions of wellbeing not also ontological discussions of what it
means to be human? If so, do different understandings of “wellbeings” beget
different modes of humanities? The interdisciplinary nature of wellbeing
scholarship focuses mainly on affluent societies of the North, hence
mainstream ideas of wellbeing are framed within grand Western narratives of
what it means to be human. What does a consideration of “place” bring to
current understandings of wellbeing? In what ways do “alternative”
understandings of wellbeing based on different modes of humanity challenge
conventional ideas debated in mainstream scholarship and policy debates?
Can such understandings of wellbeing represent possible viable alternatives
to mainstream universalising concepts of wellbeing? We invite ethnographic
and non-ethnographic papers that reflect critically on the importance that
“place” as an empirical and ontological category plays in considerations of
wellbeing cross-culturally.
*Organizers*
Emilia Ferraro (University of St Andrews) and Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti
(University of St Andrews)
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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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