Dear colleagues
We warmly invite paper submissions to our panel 'The Limits of
Collaboration' at the EASA 2016 meeting in Milan on 20-23 July. You can
propose your paper here:
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4076.
We look forward to your submissions!
*Convenors*:
David Rojas (Bucknell University)
Saiba Varma (University of California San Diego)
Chika Watanabe (University of Manchester)
*Short Abstract*
This panel explores "circuits of collaboration"--uneven, parallel, and
conflicting webs of relations that entangle ethnographers in ways they may
not control or ethically condone. We invite papers on the limits of
collaboration that take ethnography as a processual form of knowledge
production.
*Long Abstract*
From open data to emergent climate politics, a growing number of responses
to global crises hinge on "collaboration": methods whereby people combine
diverse abilities and learning practices to face uncertain futures.
Anthropological critiques calling for greater responsiveness to local needs
have prompted collaborative movements such as participatory development and
community psychiatry. Further, in response to changing conditions of
fieldwork and institutional demands, anthropologists themselves
increasingly rely on collaborations with interlocutors, other disciplines,
and the public at large.
Despite the valorization of collaboration globally, and although
collaborative methods offer anthropologists new opportunities for
ethnographic engagement, we propose to take stock of the limits of
collaboration. We are particularly interested in moments when the ethical,
emotional, or political costs of collaboration become too high or when
collaboration may conflict with other ethical and political positions.
This panel will enact and self-reflect on collaboration by pre-circulating
papers and brainstorming possible collaborative futures in anthropology. We
invite papers that examine anthropology in existing 'circuits of
collaboration' when uneven, parallel, and conflicting webs of relations
entangle ethnographers in alliances that they may not control or condone.
We are particularly interested in exploring collaborative 'short circuits'
wherein collaboration makes certain relations, moments, and narratives
legible while rendering others illegible. What anthropological futures can
emerge or be hindered from collaborations that intend to have "impact" and
be "relevant"? What can we learn from the affective intensities of
collaborations gone awry? What structural conditions are required for
'successful' collaborations to occur between ethnographers and their
interlocutors?
*Deadline: 15 February 2016*
You can propose your paper here:
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4076.
General instructions
http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2016/cfp.shtml
General information on the conference
*http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2016/
<http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2016/>*
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