Dear Colleagues,
Apologies for cross-posting! Please consider submitting a paper proposal for
the ASA 2016 panel, "Tracking and trapping the Animal" (P48). We'd be
interested in submissions from all disciplines to discuss the mechanisms of
classifying, tracking and trapping the nonhuman animal, and these
mechanisms' impact upon relationships.
The conference is in the beautiful city of Durham, 4th-7th July 2016 and the
call for papers will close 15th February 2016. Please see below for details
on our panel.
All the best,
Chris Ward (University of Nottingham) and Caetano Sordi (Universidade
Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)
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ASA2016 Durham, P48 - Tracking and trapping the Animal:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4390
Short Abstract
What does the tracking and trapping of animals tell us about interspecies
relations and agency? This panel will seek to investigate how the mechanisms
of classifying, tracking and trapping the nonhuman animal can themselves
modify relationships in unexpected ways.
Long Abstract
What does a trap communicate? How does tracking an animal create a
narrative, be this on an ethnographic, literary, scientific or philosophical
level? Is the classification of different species the cognitive outcome of
trapping and tracking animals in multiple ways? If so, how and where do
classifications of different species emerge? When do the mechanisms that
interact between species, these methods of tracking, trapping and
classifying, themselves apparently act on their own accord? Whether through
the senses or by technology, the following of the non-human animal permeates
inter-species interactions as well as the study of the multi-species. By
sensory perception, knowledge or technology, the animal might be followed,
located or trapped, but can these mechanisms, methods and experiences
themselves act, communicate or temporally displace relations in unexpected
forms? Does this displacement, whether over geographic distance or time,
have a greater importance for such things as biosecurity, ethics, wildness,
conservation and domestication? How do the techniques alter our own
perceptions, movements and lifeworlds? What kinds of engagement with
landscape, atmosphere, anthropogenic or "natural" environments do these
activities require or encompass? This panel will seek to discuss such
displacement, welcoming papers from all academic disciplines, regarding the
tracking, trapping and classifying of animals. We also encourage
participants to reflect on how anthropologists and ethnographers become (or
can become) skilled in the tracking practices of the peoples they study or
collaborate with, as well as the limits and challenges imposed by this
endeavour.
To propose a paper please follow the link:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4390
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