Dear all,
we are looking for contributions to our panel at the European
Association for Social Anthropologists conference in Tallinn, Estonia
(31 July - 3 August 2014).
Invited Panel (IP03) "The threadbare margins of revolutions: Painful
participation and failed mutualities"
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2014/panels.php5?PanelID=3077
Our panel focuses on the margins of revolutions, exploring the cracks of
regenerated civil society and participatory democracy and the traps
created by mutualities and reciprocities. What, who, how and why gets
uprooted and destroyed when the gales of freedom and change storm the
society?
Abstract: Anthropologists should, and mostly do, respond to the social
realities of their time. The brave new world of social activism and
protest movements has precipitated a new kind of anthropological
approach that challenges the one-dimensional accounts of selfish and
competitive human beings generated by advanced capitalism. The new
millennium as well as collapse of the socialist system in Eastern Europe
have seen an increased attention to people's ability to collaborate in
the name of a revolution, reflecting the new hope brought by the end of
the Cold War. Once this revolution grew old, the ability to resist the
market and survive through diverse support networks and various forms of
social capital became the focus of research.
Amidst promises that research on resilience and resourcefulness offers,
the margins of revolutions have slipped into oblivion. What has often
gone unreported are ethnographically rich examples of not benefitting
from collaboration or revolution; examples where collaborative networks
have become so dispersed they have no substance (e.g. due to migration);
where people have fallen through the cracks of civil society and
participatory democracy as their capacity for intimate connections has
been undermined due to poverty, marginality, hybridity etc.
Our panel argues for a more subtle ethnographic approach to reciprocal
support and collaborative networks of civic engagements. We welcome
ethnographic cases where mutualities and reciprocities are unachievable
or have become newly reconstituted traps generating unwelcome debt and
obligations, damaging rather than improving the ability to survive and
participate and reinforcing unilateral dependencies.
Discussant: Don Calb (CEU)
Convenors: Aet Annist (Tallinn University, University of Tartu)
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Daivi Rodima-Taylor (Brown Universityn) [log in to unmask]
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consult http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2014/cfp.shtml
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