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With apologies for cross-posting.
Call for Papers: “Post-human perspectives: productive or irrelevant for
medical anthropology?” (Panel P47)
Panel proposal for MAGic2015 conference- “Anthropology and Global Health:
interrogating theory, policy, and practice” (EASA Medical Anthropology
Network and RAI Medical Anthropology Committee).
University of Sussex, UK, 9-11 September 2015.
Convenors: Simon Cohn (LSHTM) and Rebecca Lynch (LSHTM)
Short Abstract:
Drawing on arguments that humans should not always be accorded an
exceptional status in accounts of social & cultural life, this panel will
explore alternative medical anthropology configurations that attend to the
mutual relationships between people, other living things, objects, and
environments.
Long Abstract:
The intellectual and moral imperatives that underscore medical anthropology
have invariably sustained the idea that its fundamental scope is the study
of human health, illness and suffering, and that these are self-evidently
attributable to individuals and groups of people. This panel will explore
to what extent the shifts towards more post-human perspectives taking place
in contemporary anthropology and beyond, in which the status of the human
as the obvious focus for our attention is de-stabilised, might catalyse
complimentary or alternative accounts of common topics addressed by the
sub-discipline. The potential is that such standard categories as health,
illness and even the body might be re-conceived as more distributed
features arising from the interactions between such things as people and
the environment, people and other living things, and people and material
objects across time and space - rather than as inherently human properties.
Beyond having ramification for the meaning of such key terms, and what kind
of things we might study, the panel will collectively ask:
- Does a post-human perspective allow for a more nuanced understandings of
scale and relationships between 'the global' and 'the local'?
- How might the concept of global health be reconfigured if we take into
greater account non-humans and relationships between humans and non-humans?
- Can it ever be productive to think about medical anthropology as not
always primarily interested in the lives of people, and what happens to its
moral and ethical commitments if it no longer puts humans first?
If you are interested in proposing a paper, please contact Simon Cohn (
[log in to unmask] ) or Rebecca Lynch ([log in to unmask] ) in
the first instance. Conference proposals can be submitted through this
link: http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/magic2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3644
DEADLINE FOR CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS: 27th April 2015.
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