Perilous proximities: Challenges of closeness
– Panel 25, call for papers for ASA 2015
This panel explores how intimate, mutual, and symbiotic relations can
turn perilous. It considers the ways people deal with the forces of
incorporation, the predatory nature of intimacy, and the enclosures of
closeness that people face by living in proximity with others.
Panel chairs: James Williams and Charlotte Bruckermann
We welcome abstract submissions by midnight on December 1st at the
following address:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3376
The ASA 2015 conference will take place on the 13th-16th April 2015 at
the University of Exeter.
Panel description:
This panel explores how people manage their relational entanglements
with others. We propose an engagement with spaces and situations of
human togetherness where people struggle to maintain their lives as part
of and apart from each other. How do people succeed and fail in
distancing, detaching, and separating themselves from those around them?
How can we think about closeness - spatially, ethically, or emotionally
- as hazardous, exhausting, risk-laden, or lethal? We aim to compare how
people avert or negotiate the forces of incorporation, the predatory
nature of intimacy, and the enclosures of closeness that sustain but
also may engulf and endanger life, thus how intimate, mutual, and
symbiotic relations can turn perilous.
We solicit co-panellists whose work explores the tensions and labours
entailed in how people negotiate their closest relationships. We welcome
ethnographically-grounded papers that embrace the challenges people face
by living with, through, and as part of others. In the mundaneness of
the everyday, or in circumstances of precariousness or dependency, how
and when can symbiotic and intimate relations threaten life? How do
perilous proximities heighten and dissipate within the life course? How
can people extricate themselves from dense and dangerous entanglements?
What are the ethical, emotional, or economic consequences of cutting
off, shutting out, and repelling others? How do people manage the
possibilities and slippages between affection and animosity that emerge
from human closeness?
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Dr Charlotte Bruckermann
Fellow in Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History
Humboldt University
Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49 (0)30 2093 702 11
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