Dear Colleagues,
Please find below a call for papers for the panelOrdinary Crisis: Kinship and OtherRelations of Conflict, which will be held at the ASA 2015 Conference inExeter, UK, on the 13th-16th April 2015.
Papers may be proposed via the panel page on theASA website, until midnight, 1st December, 2014: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3375
Please feel free to circulate widely!
With thanks and best wishes,
Koreen Reece
University of Edinburgh
CALL FOR PAPERS
ASA(Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth)
Universityof Exeter
13th-16th April 2015
Ordinary Crisis: Kinship and Other Relations of Conflict
Can crisis and conflict create, or sustain, social relations? Thispanel explores the analytic and ethnographic potential of using conflict andcrisis to trace theoretical symbioses between kinship, politics, economy, andreligion; and the ethical implications of our entanglements in intimacies ofcrisis.
ABSTRACT
In the discursive proliferation of crisis – political, public health, economic,environmental, religious, personal, or otherwise – the most urgent crises are oftenframed in terms of their adverse effects upon, or (worse) origination in, the ideally-harmonioushome. And yet our expectations of family stability are often closely linked toshared experiences of negotiating misunderstanding, conflict, and crisis withkin.
In what ways might conflict or crisis create and sustain socialrelations, rather than simply disrupt them? Can the ordinary crises of kinship provideperspective on larger socio-political crises, and vice versa? How do discoursesaround the nature of crisis shape intervention in the family on the part of thestate, the church, the corporation, or the humanitarian organisation – and thefamily’s responses? And finally, what are the methodological and ethicalimplications of anthropologists’ entanglements in the intimacies of crisis,whether in families, organisations, or the lives of informants?
Drawing on McKinnon and Cannell (2013), this panel seeks to examine theenduring and yet obscured symbioses of kinship with political, economic, andreligious relations – in both their ethnographic and theorised forms. We invitepapers that explore these interdependencies specifically through the lens ofcrisis and conflict, understood as dynamics that may be intrinsic to andconstitutive of social relations.
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