Dear all,
Please see cfp below for the upcoming EASA conference.
Best wishes,
Matthew
Matthew McGuire
PhD Candidate Social Anthropology
Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
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Call for Submissions: 'Public and Private Redrawn: Geosocial Sex and the
Offline'
(Panel sponsored by the European Network for Queer Anthropology)
European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference, 20–23 July 2016
in Milan, Italy
Convenors
Matthew McGuire (University of Cambridge)
Michael Connors Jackman (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Short Abstract
This panel will explore in a global context the reconstitution by geosocial
cruising technologies of two sets of oppositions-online/offline and
public/private to deal with the co-constitution of sexual lifeworlds at the
interface of geosociality and physicality.
Long Abstract
This panel will ask how public and private realms are being reconstituted,
complicated or multiplied with the rise of geosocial cruising. Core here is
a connection of two debates concerned with the relationship between opposing
spheres: public/private and online/offline. Sex in public is commonly framed
as a social problem, a transgression of moral and legal codes that works to
undermine social order and to erode the moral fabric of society (Berlant and
Warner 1998). As such, the boundaries of clean and unclean come to be
policed as though sex in public were 'matter out of place' (Douglas 1966),
even where desire figures centrally in the structuring of social
relationships and in the maintenance of social order.
Scholars have suggested that geosocial technologies are complicating the
relationship between private and public, leading to redistributions of
intimacy and relationality (e.g., McGlotten 2013, Mowlabocus 2010, Muñoz
2009, Race 2015). In this context, what counts as 'public sex' is often
unclear, and this implies a very different configuration of space, where the
online/offline and public/private are multiply layered and constituted. Few
have recoursed to transformations of public space in the context of the
growth in new technologies. However, we assert that it is only by attending
to how these technologies are woven into the physical world--through
materialities, analogies or as transecting spaces--that we can assess how
they redefine queer socialities and redraw the boundaries of sexual publics.
Please submit paper abstracts to the panel, 'Public and Private Redrawn:
Geosocial Sex and the Offline' (P135) through the EASA website by 15
February 2016:
<http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4322>
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4322. Questions and
queries can be sent to Matthew McGuire ( <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]) and Michael Connors Jackman ( <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask]).
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