CFP The Power of Mobile Materialities: human movement, objects and the
worlds they create [ANTHROMOB]
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14th EASA Biennial Conference: Anthropological legacies and human futures
20-23 July 2016, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
*Convenors*
Norah Benarrosh-Orsoni (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)
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Jamie Coates (Waseda University)
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*Short Abstract*
This panel explores the role of circulating objects in producing social and
spatial fields. Combining material culture and mobility studies approaches,
it investigates the power effects of material circulations on human
relationships, from questions of belonging to transnational politics.
*Long Abstract*
As Julie Chu states "mobility can do little on its own until it is
materialized through people, objects, words, and other embodied forms" (Chu
2010: 65). Whether tourism, migration or transportation, human mobilities
are entangled with non-human and extra-human mobilities. The exchange and
circulation of commodities, gifts and technologies affect both mobile and
immobile people, as well as their respective social and material
environments. The political, spatial and sociocultural power effects of
things are some of the many legacies anthropology leaves us (Appadurai
1988; Malinowski 1922; Mauss 1954; Mintz 1986). Recently, through a material
culture and mobility studies lens, these social processes and material
circulations have increasingly been emphasized as co-constitutive (Basu and
Coleman 2008; Burrell 2008; Miller 2008).
Within this panel we propose to expand on this scholarship by exploring the
role of materiality in shaping specific transnational social and spatial
fields. Seeing the production of these fields as ostensibly political, we
are interested in the power effects of objects in a mobile context. As
historic anthropological research has shown, power need not be relegated to
institutions and nation-states, but can also be seen in the micropolitics
formed out of kinship, belonging and cosmologies produced by the
circulation of things and people. Consequently, we welcome papers dealing
with, but not limited to: the political-economy of commodities, remittances
and souvenirs circulated by migrants and tourists; the effects of
symbolically loaded objects that maintain kinship and belonging over long
distances; or the consequences of such circulations in transnational
political relations.
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Online application deadline: 15 February 2016
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