Hello all,
I am pleased to share the CFP for the 2016 American Ethnological Society
Spring Conference, to be held in Washington, D.C. March 31-April 2 at the
Liaison Capitol Hill Hotel. My apologies in advance for any cross-posting.
Please see attached for poster.
INCOHERENCE: Disorder, Normativity, Anthropology
Organizer: Daniel Goldstein (Rutgers University)
Anthropology is about assembling worlds. Despite that impulse to order,
much of cultural anthropology today reveals the disorderly, messy, and
unstable social terrains upon which our research often unfolds. Precarity,
insecurity, and uncertainty are common themes in recent ethnographic
writing on local, national, and global political, economic, and cultural
systems. Matters of war, conflict, violence, and abuse remain the objects
of anthropological attention, joined by concerns with the decay, mutation,
or failure of institutions, formations, processes, and beliefs that once
seemed constant and reliable. Studies of migration and mobility, like other
work in the anthropology of globalization and transnationalism, point to
the importance of movement and change in contemporary contexts, against the
kinds of ordered stability that preoccupy the imaginations and memories of
states and their agents, as they often do the practitioners of other
academic disciplines. Meanwhile, anthropological studies of borders, of
legal ordering, of infrastructure, personhood, citizenship, and alienation
force us to consider the ways in which older ways of making order fight to
maintain relevance in a changing world. The anthropology of medicine and
health, of language, of science and technology, of religion and the family
– all reveal the many ways in which a lack of normative consistency
characterizes human behavior, social interaction, and cultural production.
What if incoherence, rather than order and completeness, better
characterizes contemporary social life?
Papers and panels are invited for a conference that concerns itself with
incoherence, however conceived – as instability, contingency, transition,
incompleteness, inconsistency, chaos, or in other ways. Work that plays
with normative conventions of anthropological expression – that is itself
incoherent, while still being insightful – is especially welcome.
Deadline for submission of proposals is *January 31, 2016*. For more
information on submissions, plenary speakers, graduate student workshops,
and accommodations, please see:
http://aesonline.org/meetings/spring-conference/ or contact:
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Deniz Daser
PhD candidate, Anthropology
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ
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