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Dear friends and colleagues,
Those of you who are working on relatedness and processes of subject formation in the Asian context might be interested in the following EASA panel:
(P040)
Technologies of relatedness: Different practices of intimacy in Asia
Convenor: Roberta Zavoretti (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
Discussant: Janelle Lamoreaux (University of Cambridge)
Short Abstract
This panel explores the connections between technologies of the self and the emergence of particular modes of relatedness in the context of Asia's increasingly liberalised economies and societies.
Long Abstract
This panel explores the connections between technologies of the self and the emergence of particular modes of relatedness in the context of Asia's increasingly liberalised economies and societies.
'Technologies of the self' can be interpreted broadly, ranging from material ways in which individuals modify or treat the physical body to more Foucauldian notions of self-discipline and regulation. 'Relatedness' indicates those modes of sociality that provide social actors with a horizon of development, as well as with a sense of identity. We conceptualise self-regulatory efforts as practices that require constant, everyday commitment from the part of social actors, and are therefore pivotal to the fostering of relatedness: the building of a shared past, present and future.
We are specifically interested in examining new ways in which social actors practice intimacy in the context of Asian countries' wider neoliberal economic and political changes. On the one hand, states and markets increasingly reward those particular forms of collaboration and connection which validate entrepreneurialism and transactional relations; on the other, these institutions need to rhetorically reconcile market logics with other, often contradictory, discourses of morality and intimacy. The panel interrogates the ways in which different social actors deal with these discursive tensions and the reasons behind their different trajectories. In some cases, social practices aim at mediating between different, apparently divergent, discourses of intimacy and relatedness. In other instances, the presence of competing discourses provides social actors with a space for re-negotiating the boundaries of hegemonic models of intimacy.
The deadline for paper submission is 27/02/2014.
We are looking forward to receiving many interesting abstracts.
Yours
Roberta
Roberta Zavoretti
Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Department Resilience and Transformation in Eurasia
36 Advokatenweg - 06114 Halle/Saale, Germany
Tel.: +49 (0) 345 29 27 222
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