Dear colleagues,
Deadline for paper proposals for the Congress of the International
Society for Ethnology and Folklore that will take place in Zagreb, 21-25
June 2015 is approaching! The submission site will close at midnight on
*January 14th 2015*.
There are still open spaces for our panel on non-normative relationships
and cohabitation!
We aim to bring together *ethnographies that engage with 'non-normative'
relationships, cohabitation and family building, in a variety of
national and transnational contexts, drawing on feminist and
postcolonial theories*.
*Please, distribute to anyone potentially interested!**
*
Katrien De Graeve (Ghent University, Belgium) & Beatriz San Román
(Universitat Auṭnoma de Barcelona, Spain)
*Abstract:* _Non-normative relationships and (co)habitations: Utopian
visions, everyday practices and imageries of origin and belonging_
(Home004)_
_http://www.nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3353
The last few decades have witnessed the emergence and/or increased
visibility in the West of relationships of love and care that in some
way challenge the norm of the heterosexual, monogamous couple and of the
biological, two-parent, nuclear family: alternative ways of organizing
relationships and (co)habitation (communes, cohousing, polyamorous
relationships, living alone…), of getting children (ART, transnational
adoption, open adoption, surrogacy,…) and organizing the care for
children or for others (transnational parenting, blended families,
single parenthood, co-parenting, foster families, kangaroo housing,
psychiatric home nursing…). These new (or not so new) types of
relationships of love and care, (co)habitation and building households
are surrounded by various discourses, both challenging and reproducing
normative assumptions of relationships, family, kinship and (national)
belonging.
This panel aims to bring together ethnographies that engage with all
kinds of 'non-normative' (care) relationships, cohabitation and family
building, in a variety of national and transnational contexts, drawing
on feminist or postcolonial theories. It invites contributions that
investigate the ways utopian imageries (e.g. non-racialism,
communitarian ideals, ideals of solidarity, cosmopolitanism, liberal
ideals of freedom and choice…), and/or imageries of (biological,
genetic, gestational) origins, cultural heritage and national belonging
intersect with these every day lived realities and practices. It aims to
assess to what extent they succeed to expand definitions of
relationships, families, households and communities by exploring the
inclusionary potential of these practices and the new exclusions and
inequalities they create.
For more information and instructions, see:
http://www.siefhome.org/congresses/sief2015/cfp.shtml
All proposals must be made to specific panels via the 'Propose a paper'
link found beneath the panel's long abstract on that panel's webpage:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3353
Proposals should consist of:
* a paper title
* authors/co-authors
* a short abstract of fewer than 300 characters
* a long abstract of fewer than 250 words.
Hope to see you in Zagreb,
Katrien De Graeve
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Katrien De Graeve
Postdoctoral Researcher of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
Department of Languages and Cultures
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy - Ghent University
Room DO.38
Rozier 44
9000 Gent
Belgium
tel. +329 264 3821
http://cici.ugent.be/en/researchers/katrien
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