Dear colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to the CFP for the first panel,'Living well together: considering connections of health, wellbeing and work in the lives of humans and other living beings', of the new EASA network 'Humans and Other Living Beings‘ at the upcoming EASA conference this year (see more info below). Please feel free to circulate it to others to whom this may be relevant.
All the best
Sara
Dr Sara Asu Schroer
Research Fellow at ERC Arctic Domus
Department of Anthropology
University of Aberdeen
CFP EASA 2016
First Panel of the New EASA Network ‘Humans and Other Living Beings’
“Living well together”: considering connections of health, wellbeing and work in the lives of humans and other living beings.
We invite participants to engage with the question of how humans’ sense of health and wellbeing is often intimately connected to and dependent on the manifold ways through which human and nonhuman ways of life are entangled and emplaced within wider ecological relationships. We are particularly interested in contributions based on in-depth ethnographic materials, helping explore the theoretical and ethical dimensions of what it means to people to ‘live well’ with other living beings. How might this notion allow to conceptualise health and wellbeing as being constituted through and depended on the active participation of human and nonhuman living beings in shared social worlds? We especially invite papers to explore the connections between health, wellbeing and ‘work’ or ‘labour’. How might a less human-centric and more open understanding of these terms contribute to a better understanding of the active and constitutive role of other living beings, whose often hidden and invisible ‘work’ is crucial for the creation of human health and wellbeing? How are other living beings such as animals, plants, fungi and microbes involved in creating and maintaining human health and sense of wellbeing? In times of climate change, severe ecological crisis and species extinction, an anthropological understanding of these questions seems all the more relevant. This panel is an initiative of the newly founded EASA network ‘Humans and Other Living Beings’ and will be accompanied by an inaugural network meeting to which all are welcome.
Convenors: Dr Ursula Muenster (LMU Munich/Rachel Carlson Center, Munich) and Dr Sara Asu Schroer (University of Aberdeen)
Deadline: 15th of February 2016
The panel is part of the EASA conference, “Anthropological Legacies and Human Futures”, 20-23 July, University of Milano-Bicoccia. You can submit a paper following this link:
http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2016/cfp.shtml
At the same conference we will also hold the inaugural network meeting of the new EASA network ‘Humans and Other Living Beings’ to which all are welcome. Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to get in touch ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>).
The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.
Tha Oilthigh Obar Dheathain na charthannas clàraichte ann an Alba, Àir. SC013683.
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