Dear all,
We welcome submissions for our panel at this year's ASA conference in
Durham, UK (4th-7th July 2016).
Title: P45 Living with and through profusion: narrating selves and shaping
futures
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4163
Convenors: Jennie Morgan (University of York) and Zemirah Moffat
(Insightful Moves)
Short abstract:
Profusion - or an abundance of material and digital things - is a
phenomenon of contemporary patterns of consumption. This panel looks at how
strategies for dealing with profusion express, (re)configure, and/or
provide alternatives to late-modern temporal, social, moral, and political
formations.
Long abstract:
There is growing consensus that contemporary life is characterised by an
abundance of material and digital things. Geographically and temporally
nuanced, this is accompanied by 'overflow' and 'excess' of other entities -
e.g. information, commodities, tasks, technologies, and resulting choices
(Czarniawska and Löfgren 2012, 2013). Coping with profusion is a key
challenge for all; concerns issues of sustainability, stewardship, and
legacy; and confronts individuals, communities, organisations, and
households alike. Yet, while challenging, dealing with profusion also
provides a plethora of opportunities for creativity, agency,
self-narration, and the shaping of anticipated futures. Responding to the
conference themes (temporalities of economic exchange in particular) we
invite researchers to consider profusion as a phenomenon of contemporary
patterns of consumption. How do strategies and approaches for dealing with
profusion express,(re)configure, and/or provide alternatives to temporal,
social, moral, and political formations associated with late-modernity; or,
as our title implies, how do ways of living with and through profusion
shape selves and futures? When addressing these questions, specific topics
might include (but should not be limited too):
* ethnographic accounts of keeping and discarding
* (in)equalities and power relations of profusion
* sensory, material, affective, and/or experiential qualities of profusion
* anthropological theories of excess
* impacts of material and digital excess on health and well-being
* prolific pasts, sentimentality, and abundant heritage
We welcome papers from all anthropological disciplines, as well as papers
that include non-textual media such as video, sound, photography, and
illustration.
To propose a paper for this panel, please follow this link:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4163
Deadline for submissions: *15th February 2016*
Best wishes,
Jennie Morgan & Zemirah Moffat
--
Dr Jennie Morgan
Research Fellow
Department of Sociology
University of York
York YO10 5DD
http://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/research/current-research/macdonald-curating-profusion/
http://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/our-staff/academic/jennie-morgan/
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