Dear colleagues,
It's open until the 18th of January the CALL FOR PAPERS for the next
European Conference on African Studies (ECAS7) in Basel Switzerland.
More than 200 panels are currently open. Here is the full list of panels:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/ecas/ecas2017/panels.php5
I personally call attention to the following panel:
C33: Intimacy gone public, popular, political: Questioning rupture and
continuity in West Africa's *genderscape*
<http://www.nomadit.co.uk/ecas/ecas2017/panels.php5?PanelID=5133>
*Long abstract*: The politicization of intimacy is a rather controversial,
even ambiguous, idea. Drawing lines between what's to remain private and
what's of public nature is as much a cultural issue as it is a political
one, thus making it part of socio-historical constructs where such
boundaries become meaningful.
How does intimacy become a public matter? According to human rights
definitions, when fundamental rights of individuals are in peril, the state
has to take the private realm into its legislative apparatus, thus trying
to redefine a field where religions, moral codes and subjectivities also
claim their space.
In west-african contexts, social relationships are strongly defined by
traditions, kinship, public morality, socio-religious conduct, gender and
generational roles, and less by these legal instruments that sometimes are
actively avoided, thus creating a field of (sometimes) tense negotiation
between the demand for new rights and rooted cultural identities.
Concepts of intimacy and sexual and reproductive rights are examples of
such negotiation between traditions, social values and human rights. Do
individuals seeking alternative life paths find available scripts? Are new
narratives allowed where people make their lives meaningful away from the
constraints of established social values?
In this panel we want to reflect on these intersections and question how
continuity and rupture are enacted in both urban and rural settings. We
welcome perspectives on intimacy empirically grounded in the study of
public, political and popular cultures that focus the reception of gender
idioms in domains such as those of sexuality, close relationships and daily
life practices.
Ricardo Falcão,
ISCTE-IUL
Anthropology / African Studies
Inês Galvão,
ICS
Anthropology
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