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With apologies for cross-posting.
Call for Papers: “Post-human perspectives: productive or irrelevant
for medical anthropology and sociology?” (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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Dr Simon Cohn ( http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/cohn.simon )
Reader in Medical Anthropology
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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