Dear Colleagues
I would like to invite paper proposals to Panel 36 at the ASA 2016
conference in Durham, UK (July 4-7), title and info below. Although the
CfP highlights ethnographic contributions, I warmly welcome submissions
from across the social sciences and humanities that engage with the
theme(s) of the panel.
*Anthropology and the post-war present in Sri Lanka: ethnographic
reflections**
*
Short Abstract
The panel invites ethnographic reflections on the temporalities of the
post-war present in Sri Lanka, the orientation of individuals,
communities, and society to history, time, and change, and the scope and
role of anthropology in making sense of, and contributing towards, these
processes.
Long Abstract
Six years after the end of a long civil war in Sri Lanka, meanings and
values attached to deep and recent pasts have especially evocative (and
provocative) roles in the ways that current and future problems, from
the transition to peace to questions as seemingly far removed as
environmental justice and climate change, are being dealt with.
Processes of post-war reconstruction and reconciliation, armed service
redeployment, IDP, diaspora, and land return, urban and rural renewal,
market, social, and governmental reform, and political, moral, and
subjective reorientation - all are full of claims and counter-claims of
what was, what is, and what could be. This panel reflects on the play of
the past and the future in the present in Sri Lanka and how a strong
tradition of anthropological research has sought to make sense of the
relationships between mythological and documented histories in the
emergence of Sri Lankan nationalist movements and religious and ethnic
conflict over the course of the twentieth century, and at the same time
been criticised and censured in the country for doing so.
Anthropological concepts have also informed policy and public debate in
the island, including understandings of social problems like homicide
and suicide and the idea of nationalist 'culture' itself. The panel
invites ethnographic explorations of the temporalities of the post-war
present in Sri Lanka, the orientation of individuals, communities, and
society to history, time, and change, and the scope and role of
anthropology in making sense of, and contributing towards, these processes.
Although the CfP highlights ethnographic contributions, I welcome
submissions from across the social sciences and humanities that
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 15th February 2016, and more
information on the panel and submitting an abstract can be found here:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4270
General proposal guidelines below:
http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa16/cfp.shtml
Please feel free to share this with colleagues who might be interested.
All best wishes for 2016,
Tom Widger
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Dr Tom Widger
Wellcome Trust Research Fellow
Department of Anthropology
Durham University
Durham, DH1 3LE
Office: 0044 191 334 3300
Mobile: 0044 779 220 3957
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