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Dear all,
Ivana Maček and I are organizing a panel on emotions for the upcoming Annual Conference of the Swedish Anthropological Association (SANT) in Stockholm, 6-8 April 2017. We would like to invite paper proposals to our panel entitled Navigating Emotions (please see abstract below). This call is directed to both senior researchers and PhD candidates with ongoing projects within the field.
Deadline for submission is the 7th of February (send a 250 word abstract of your paper proposal including institutional affiliation, email and the title of the panel to: [log in to unmask]).
Link to the conference page: https://sant2017.wordpress.com.
NAVIGATING EMOTIONS
Conveners:
Tania González-Fernández, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University
Ivana Maček, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University
In the unpredictable and unstable fields that many of us study today, emotions appear to play an important role for the socio-cultural as well as geographical navigation and re-location. This is perhaps most apparent in – but by no means limited to – research on labor migration, political violence, and refugees, fields of research that often overlap. Psychologists take for granted that emotions are decisive for our cognition and behavior, and that a large part of communication happens without words and other symbols, through our bodies and senses. But what about social and cultural anthropologists? How do we understand the role that emotions play in our research? Moreover, how do we use emotions in our research? Emotions have been part of anthropology from discipline’s early days, and some important work has already been done, notably edited volumes by Davies and Spencer (2010), Milton and Svašek (2005), and Wulff (2007), as well as Ruth Behar’s “The Vulnerable Observer” (1996). In this panel, we understand “navigating emotions” in two ways. Firstly, as emotions that in a decisive way influence how we and our interlocutors navigate in various socio-cultural, political and geographical contexts. Secondly, as the ways in which we deal with emotions in our work. Although the two intertwine, the latter focuses more on questions of methodology, while the first is concerned with analytical perspective and theory. We invite presentations that deal with some aspect of anthropological work with emotions: ethnographic, methodological, or theoretical.
If you have any questions, please contact us.
Best regards,
Tania González-F.
PhD Candidate
Department of Social Anthropology
Stockholm University
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