CALL FOR PAPERS
ASA, University of Durham, 4th-7th July 2016
Panel Title: (Im)possible lives: on futures as process
<http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4427>
Dear Colleagues
We invite papers to our panel which explores the relationship among
futures, hope, fantasy and the re-configuration of selves. In particular,
this session will concentrate on future as process that involves a
subject's everyday life. We are particularly interested in future(s) as
process(es) in education, healing and care, migration, conversions, voyages
and/or narratives.
Abstract:
In lives lived in time, senses of past, present and future are at stake.
This panel looks at the process of future making. Differently from
considering future in a holistic approach (Mead 2005 and Textor 1995), this
panel examines future as a dimension that tirelessly pervades the
micro-level of a subject's everyday life.
What are the affects, desires, visions, fears, dreams and material
resources that move people to change their lives? How do people work in and
on their present (and their present pasts) to contest, shape and imagine
their future(s)?
Hope and fantasy may emerge as inspiring clues (Jackson 2011) in the making
of peopleĀ“s futures. Hope as category (Crapanzano 2013) and method
(Miyazaki 2004) for understanding future(s); fantasy as push for action and
for the re-configuration of selves (Moore 1994).
However, in the making of life-in-the-world, what are the footprints and
legacies that define a personĀ“s past, present and future? Class, ethnicity,
race, rank, religion and gender have been productive concepts to identify
collective inheritances that offer frameworks to live a life. At the same
time, these concepts may also place limits. How do people contest and/or
re-affirm these concepts and categories in their everyday lives?
We invite papers that ethnographically examine the crossroads between past,
present and future and the (im)possible transformations people undertake.
We are particularly interested in future(s) as process(es) in education,
healing and care, migration, conversions, voyages and/or narratives.
Please follow the link here
<http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4427> to propose
a paper via the ASA website.
Convenors: Simone Toji, Laura Petracchi & Michele Wisdahl
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