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Please consider submitting an abstract for this panel at the IUAES / CASCA inter-congress in Ottawa (2-7th May 2017), at
http://nomadit.co.uk/cascaiuaes2017/suite/panels.php5?PanelID=5385<https://exchange.sussex.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=5LnqXUMAGEx0hxfiMRpHDH63p5MDFQP2pR-m9tEGwA_kOjyaWR_UCA..&URL=http%3a%2f%2fnomadit.co.uk%2fcascaiuaes2017%2fsuite%2fpanels.php5%3fPanelID%3d5385>:
Call for papers
Double-edged agency: ambivalences, fluctuations and sub-currents across life-course trajectories
Convenors:
* David Orr (University of Sussex) [log in to unmask]<https://exchange.sussex.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=QnUreCuK3AgEp-SsOuE8fIi8KvN6FgRT0UAUszcPiuxazEFMWR_UCA..&URL=mailto%3ad.orr%40sussex.ac.uk>
* Sevasti-Melissa Nolas (University of Sussex) [log in to unmask]<https://exchange.sussex.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=dwGV1WtXq0Ok7lVC8BHH2lyChC0aUn3GVFTh7b9WgA9azEFMWR_UCA..&URL=mailto%3as.nolas%40sussex.ac.uk>
Deadline for submissions 19th December 2016
Short Abstract
Distributions of agency are commonly enabled, mediated and restricted with reference to phases, moments and events within trajectories through the life-course. This panel explores how these become framed in ways that enable, mediate or constrain agency, according to multiple influences.
Long Abstract
Anthropological theorizing has productively challenged received notions of agency, exploring the complexities of how it is distributed across the human and non-human (Latour), the present and the absent (Bille et al. 2010), resistance to and articulation with norms (Mahmood 2005). This panel focuses on how such distributions of agency are enabled, mediated and restricted with reference to trajectories through the life-course, through such phases as older age, adulthood, childhood or infancy, or moments and events such as illness, loss, parenthood, or retirement. Individuals' and groups' capacity to exercise agency fluctuates at these times in response to multiple influences (biographical, situational, ethical, material and institutional), attested to by the language of movement used in modern Western societies to describe such processes: 'moving on', 'leaving behind', 'progressing', 'backsliding', 'journey', 'emerging', 'getting stuck'.
Papers might explore, but are not limited to, the following questions:
· How do social framings characterize agency and self-determination in such moments, events and phases as protective or dangerous, constraining or facilitating, valid or misleading?
· How do individuals and collectivities selectively embrace or contest such framings in specific settings?
· How might the life-course provide a metaphorical and symbolic language that speaks to questions of agency in other contexts (e.g. the infantilizing of particular social groups)?
Relevant papers may speak to a range of fieldwork settings, including health, welfare, political participation, education and international development; we would also encourage papers that approach the topic from relevant theoretical perspectives on the contemporary politics of agency and movement.
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