darach,
can you please stop replying to all the emails of the group and wait for
the admin to unsubscribe you? it can't be that bad to receive a few more
emails that have some content, but your ones are only concerned with your
subscription preferences and you should not make them a matter for the
group to discuss at least six times in the last three days - that's totally
unacceptable.
cheers
mariya
On 16 December 2015 at 10:31, Darach Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> Can someone let me know how I can unsubscribe from Anthropology
> Matters email list. I can't do so though the 'Subscriber's corner' as per
> the bottom of Anthropology Matters emails because I never registered and
> have no password etc.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Darach
>
> On 16 December 2015 at 09:47, Boris Boller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Call for papers: Dossier «Uncertain Futures» in Tsantsa, the journal of
> > the Swiss Ethnological Society 22/2017
> >
> > Dossier Guest Editors:
> > Valerie Hänsch (Chair of Anthropology, University of Bayreuth) Lena
> > Kroeker (Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, University of
> > Bayreuth), Silke Oldenburg (Seminar of Social Anthropology, University of
> > Basel)
> >
> > Uncertain situations are an unavoidable part of social life. Societies,
> > however, differ in their ways of perceiving situations with an uncertain
> > outcome and in how they respond to them considering the (material and
> > immaterial) tools at hand. When dealing with uncertainties, actors try to
> > change the situation itself, to shape their life, and to secure their
> > future. Therefore, responses entail either individual solutions or
> > collective approaches. Furthermore, social institutions, such as
> > authorities, may be involved in dealing with the problem. Thereby,
> > preferences of certain ways of dealing with uncertainty differ
> culturally.
> >
> > In contrast to risky or threatening situations, uncertain situations are
> > characterised by difficulties to assess and anticipate them due to
> > 'non-knowledge' and/or the inability to produce the necessary knowledge.
> > Risk, by definition, is based on calculations of damage and occurrence
> > probabilities and, thus, on figures which are not available in uncertain
> > situations. Due to the inability to assess uncertain situations and what
> > would be adequate responses, they are imbued with strong emotions and can
> > rarely be dealt with based on purpose-rational calculations.
> >
> > The topic of "Uncertainty" has inspired a vivid debate among
> > anthropologists in the recent years. Various situations have been
> > described, for instance responses to (natural) disasters (Macamo und
> > Neubert 2012; Oliver-Smith 1986), displacement/migration (Colson 1971;
> > Hänsch 2012; Jackson 2013), hunger crisis (Spittler 1989), diseases,
> > especially HIV/AIDS (Whyte 1997; Haram und Yamba 2009; Jenkins et al.
> 2005;
> > Kroeker 2015), as well as growing up and living in war and conflict zones
> > (Vigh 2006; Christiansen et al. 2006; Oldenburg 2014; Lubkemann 2008).
> > While these situations are not basically unknown, their impact on life
> > during and after the uncertain situation definitively is.
> >
> > Visions of the future play a pivotal role in dealing with uncertainties.
> > The future may, on the one hand, be perceived as exciting, open and full
> of
> > daydreams, or, on the other hand, be plagued by worries and fear. Both
> > perceptions result from current and past interpretations of culturally
> > embedded everyday lives.
> >
> > Time, being an abstract topic, can hardly be studied in anthropology
> > without making reference to empirical works. Responses to uncertainty
> are a
> > particularly eligible field for studying the dimensions of time.
> Dimensions
> > of time unfold in relation to imaginations. Immediate visions of the
> future
> > may, thereby, differ from long term aspirations and from those visions
> > which will affect future generations or after (earthly) life. Therefore,
> > this multiplicity of imaginations points at a multiplicity of notions of
> > time, which may even exist concomitantly. Hence, we speak of competing
> > visions of the future and, thus, of futures in the plural.
> >
> > Expectations and preparations which are meant to realise desirable
> > developments and to prevent undesirable ones can tell a lot about
> > conceptualisations of the future. However, so far, the future has hardly
> > ever been explicitly analysed in ethnographic studies even though
> uncertain
> > situations have been described in plenitude. For this dossier we
> therefore
> > seek contributions, which connect dealings with uncertainty with a
> temporal
> > perspective on future(s). We are particularly looking forward to
> empirical
> > examples (contemporary or historical) as well as theoretical discussions
> on
> > uncertainty and future(s).
> >
> >
> > The following questions guide our interest:
> > 1) Which temporalities influence assumptions on how the future can
> be
> > shaped and influenced: Do these visions and practices derive from present
> > and past experiences and/or are they aiming at an immediate, mid-term or
> > distant future? How at all is time and in particular the future
> perceived,
> > debated, and experienced under the conditions of uncertainty?
> > 2) Which formal, informal, institutional and individual strategies,
> > tactics and visions exist or evolve when trying to control uncertain
> > situations? And how is knowledge produced? How do people juggle
> > eventualities, contingencies, risks, and chances? What do investments
> into
> > future lives tell us about conceptualizations of the future which may
> > differ from “western” perceptions of time?
> > 3) How does the engagement with uncertainties change imaginations
> > about the future or provoke radical departures and alternative ways of
> life?
> > 4) Regarding different historical and biographical experiences: Are
> > there differences between generations of how futures are imagined?
> >
> >
> > General guideline
> >
> > Languages: German, French and English
> > Please send us your abstract of the proposed paper by 31st January 2016:
> > [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
> > [log in to unmask]
> > Abstracts: max. 500 words
> >
> > Articles: Length of the text: 40’000 characters (incl. spaces and
> > bibliography). Contributions are peer-reviewed by the editorial
> commission
> > and external peer-reviewers. For more information and guidelines, please
> > visit the Tsantsa website: http://www.tsantsa.ch/en/
> >
> > Contributions: Once the article is accepted, it must be supplemented by
> > • a short (max. 500 characters) summary,
> > • a brief biographical note, institutional affiliation and full
> > correspondence address (including phone number and e-mail), in English,
> > • 4-6 significant key-words.
> >
> >
> > Timeline
> > End February 2016: Notification of accepted papers
> > 30. June 2016: Deadline for the submission of articles
> > 15. September 2016: Review feedback to the authors
> > 1. November 2016: Submission of final articles
> > May 2017: Publication Tsantsa 22 (online open access 2018)
> >
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