We welcome submissions for our panel at this year's EASA conference in
Milan, Italy. Deadline for submissions: 15th February 2016.
20-23 July 2016. Your abstract here
<http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2016/cfp.shtml>
The Promise of Land: intersections of property, personhood and power in
rural life
Convenors
David Cooper (UCL)
Piergiorgio Di Giminiani (Universidad Catolica de Chile)
Discussant: Allen Abramson (UCL)
Short Abstract
Land is always simultaneously an element within discourses of governance, a
vital underpinning of everyday life, and often an explicit concern for the
populations studied by anthropologists. By attending to this inherent
multiplicity, this panel aims to realise land's fertile analytical
potential.
Long Abstract
This panel focuses upon the intersections demanded by the anthropological
analysis of land in rural contexts, and the theoretical promise of
attending closely to these intersections. Land is always simultaneously a
key element within discourses of governance, a vital underpinning of
everyday life bound up with personhood, kinship, identity and power, and,
furthermore, frequently stands as an explicit political and cultural
concern for the populations studied by anthropologists. In its implication
in this range of fields, land operates as a critical site of conjuncture,
and consequently demands that adequate analyses theorise the interplay
between phenomena of distinct scales and perspectives; ranging from global
patterns of land accumulation to ordinary experiences and feelings of
landedness.
The ways in which state- or NGO-led interventions such as programs of land
reform, restitution, privatisation or titling play into or interact with
local dynamics and priorities; the ways in which political imaginaries
intersect with the practicalities of livelihood strategy; the ways in which
particular cultural constructions of land's qualities and affordances come
to be bound up with broader administrative procedures. These statements map
just a few of the angles of investigation opened up by attention to land's
inherent multiplicity.
The theme of land stands as one of anthropology's most longstanding
theoretical legacies. By stimulating debate through detailed case studies,
this panel will demonstrate that attention to land's intersections can
further realise its enduring theoretical promise. The conveners invite
presentations from any geographical context which speak to these issues of
intersection, interplay and conjuncture.
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Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, PhD
Programa de Antropología
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul (Campus San Joaquin)
Tel. (0056-2) 23541974
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antropologia.uc.cl
<http://antropologia.uc.cl/Academicos/piergiorgio-di-giminiani.html>
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