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Dear colleagues,
Please find below the second call for papers for our panel at the Finnish Anthropological Society’s biennial conference on "Landscapes, Sociality and Materiality" (21-22 October 2015 in Helsinki, Finland.
Please note that the deadline is 15th March, 2015
You can read the full details here: http://www.antropologinenseura.fi/en/events/anthropology-conference-2015/ <http://www.antropologinenseura.fi/en/events/anthropology-conference-2015/>
We invite you to consider proposing abstracts of 250-300 words for paper presentations at our panel: “Landscape ontologies in collision:
food, politics, and (non)human transformations in the neoliberal era”.
Abstract:
Throughout the longue durée of human civilization, people’s ontological landscapes have (trans)formed, and been (trans)formed by, food production. ‘Traditional’ economic activities often translate into ways of dwellings, affective attachments to the land, and imaginations of the self. Plants and animals – primary sources of local food systems - are key contributors to the unmaking and remaking of people’s ethnic and communal identities.
Changes to this biocultural environment can have significant impacts. When large-scale neoliberal ‘green’ development targets the lands and natural resources of local populations, imposing other use-values to the same physical space, these overlapping ontological landscapes collide. The ensuing friction triggers unexpected or abrupt processes that compel people to resignify their relationships with place, dwelling, and nonhuman cohabitants. Being the source of material (biological and economic) sustenance, food has the power to mobilise bodily processes of identification and to radicalise political contestation.
This panel welcomes ethnographic contributions that help to understand the frictions arising from overlapping but divergent ontological landscapes and to explore the role of food in identity (trans)formation and political confrontation. In what ways do landscape interventions affect people’s ontologies and dwellings? How does a perceived threat to ‘traditional’ economic activities reinvigorate sensuous-affective attachment to landscapes and their nonhuman cohabitants? Can local food materialities shape cultural imaginaries that enhance a sense of belonging while challenging hegemonic development projects? Do foodscapes contribute to envision alternative futures and socio-political imaginaries? What is the role of bodily memories in the awakening of grass-roots resistance movements?
http://www.antropologinenseura.fi/en/events/anthropology-conference-2015/anthropology-conference-2015-panels/#Landscape%20ontologies <http://www.antropologinenseura.fi/en/events/anthropology-conference-2015/anthropology-conference-2015-panels/%23Landscape%20ontologies>
Submission Deadline: 15 MARCH 2015.
Given the growing anthropological interest, we would also welcome proposals which situate papers within anthropocenic thinking and epistemologies. If you have any questions, please free to contact either Laura Montesi at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> or me at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Please feel free to circulate this CfP to others who might be interested. Thank you.
Kind regards,
Tony Knight, PhD Candidate
University of Kent, School of Anthropology and Conservation
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